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 ...

Midnight Cowboy' won Best Picture at the Oscars and starred Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight in the only X-rated film to win in ...

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 ...

Prominent documentary director Nancy Buirski tracked down several of the key players involved in John Schlesinger's 1969 film 'Midnight Cowboy' for this doc premiering in Venice. By Stephen Farber A ...

Nancy Buirski's new documentary makes the case that the 1969 Best Picture winner is the key film of the New Hollywood era. Not that “Midnight Cowboy” isn’t already fruitful subject matter. James Leo ...

Glenn Frankel’s new book explores the making of a film that has become almost synonymous with New York City. Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy, 1969. (Photo by United Artists / Courtesy ...

Elementary math can sum up Nancy Buirski’s approach to the 1969 film “Midnight Cowboy.” The documentarian’s “Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy” includes video interviews ...

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 Cowboy,” ...