This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people who made it. It is about a troubled era of cultural ferment, social and political change, about broken dreams and strivers, then and now. It is about an era that made a movie and a movie that made an era.
Production
Archival footage so raw you can smell 1969 New York.
Direction
Buirski treats the era with scholar's rigor, fan's heart.
Director
Nancy Buirski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'I'm walkin' here!' scene was improvised — a real taxi nearly hit Dustin Hoffman mid-take.
Midnight Cowboy's X rating was for 'homosexual frame of reference' — the MPAA essentially rated queerness itself as adult content.
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