These three movies are excellent options for anyone who finds themselves stuck when trying to decide what to watch.

Released in 1969, “Midnight Cowboy” is often viewed, along with “Easy Rider,” as the beginning of Hollywood’s second golden age: the seventies. As is well-known, the movie focuses on two outcasts — ...

Jon Voight as Joe Buck in “Midnight Cowboy,” the Oscar-winning 1969 film that is the subject of the wide-ranging docu-essay “Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy ...

One of Midnight Cowboy's most famous scenes depicts Voight and Hoffman walking down the street when Hoffman is nearly hit by a cab.He hits the vehicle and shouts the iconic quote, "Hey! I'm walkin ...

There is some debate about how Midnight Cowboy got its X rating, but the prevailing theory is that the movie’s distributor, United Artists, asked for it as a sort of preemptive strike. As ...

When Midnight Cowboy came out in 1969, Miami Herald critic John Huddy heralded its arrival with a string of superlatives: “Staggering, shattering, heartbreaking, hilarious, tragic, raw and ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. When director John Schlesinger and writers James Leo Herlihy and Waldo ...

A movie, good, bad or indifferent, is always “about” something. But some movies are about more things than others, and as you watch “Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight ...

The Jon Voight-Dustin Hoffman drama Midnight Cowboy won an Oscar despite the Motion Picture Association giving it an X, or what’s known today as NC-17.

A movie, good, bad or indifferent, is always “about” something. But some movies are about more things than others, and as you watch “Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight ...

Whether “Midnight Cowboy” deserves or can bear the weight that “Desperate Souls” accords it, the director Nancy Buirski presents these issues with a good mix of small-bore and big-picture ...