The director was coming off a flop and coming out of the closet. The producer’s wife had taken the kids and left him. The screenwriter, whose career had been ruined by the blacklist, was scraping by ...

Inspired by Glenn Frankel’s acclaimed 2021 book “Shooting ‘Midnight Cowboy’: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation and the Making of a Dark Classic,” director Nancy Buirski (“By Sidney Lumet”) gives us ...

Award-winning documentarian Nancy Buirski looks back to see what combusted to make the now-classic 1969 Oscar-winning Best Picture “Midnight Cowboy,” still the only X-rated movie to win that top prize ...

In 1969, the drama film Midnight Cowboy defied cinematic norms and audience expectations. Directed by John Schlesinger, the drama delved into the darker side of America, with themes of loneliness, ...

“Midnight Cowboy“, the sometimes amusing but essentially sordid saga of a male prostitute in Manhattan, should do business on shock, sensation, sex, curiosity, dispute and the popularity of Dustin ...

Amazing how jokes you didn’t get will stick with you like that. Yet in the 20-odd years since that Seinfeld episode, I still hadn’t ever seen the 1969 Best Picture winner (the only X-rated film ever ...

During the Vietnam War in 1969, the U.S. was in political chaos and social upheaval, but arts and culture were thriving. When the provocative film "Midnight Cowboy" was released that year, it ...

EXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber and Zeitgeist Films have picked up North American rights to Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy — a new documentary on the making of the iconic John ...

In 'Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic,' out March 16, Frankel explores the origins of the Oscar-winning film and how it ultimately signaled a ...

Jerome Hellman, the Oscar-winning producer of the groundbreaking 1969 film “Midnight Cowboy,” has died. He was 92. Over the course of his career, Hellman also worked on 1964’s “The World of Henry ...