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 ...

The ratings system gave it a death sentence with its X rating, but Dustin Hoffman's 'Midnight Cowboy' persevered and thrived.

Every film follows a script, with actors rehearsing their lines over and over before filming even begins. Things don't always go according to plan, though. Sometimes an actor will be "in the moment" ...

‘Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy’ uses a kaleidoscopic method to explore the cultural impact of the 1970 Oscar winner Elementary math can sum up Nancy Buirski’s approach ...

“Midnight Cowboy,” somewhat surprisingly, won the Academy Award for best picture in 1969, an acknowledgment of director John Schlesinger’s groundbreaking film that the documentary “Desperate Souls, ...

The Jon Voight-Dustin Hoffman drama won an Oscar despite the Motion Picture Association giving it an X, what’s known today as NC-17. By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer Ira Sachs’ Passages (released Aug ...

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,” ...

New documentary makes a case for the lasting legacy of 1969′s ‘Midnight Cowboy’ starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman “Desperate Souls, Dark City, and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy” is a documentary ...

The late 60s marked the beginning of a new era in Hollywood and Midnight Cowboy was right in the middle of it. The 1969 film from John Schesinger follows a swaggering small town Texas stud trying to ...

One of many films used to make the case that the 1970s was the last great decade of filmmaking (even though it was released in the summer of 1969), "Midnight Cowboy" has been re-released as a two-disc ...

EXCLUSIVE: Cineflix Productions, the company behind Nancy Buirski’s Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Midnight Cowboy feature doc, has new representation. The company has signed with Gersh. The deal ...

We got an exclusive first look at the brand-new musical Midnight Cowboy. Adapted from James Leo Herlihy’s novel and the Oscar-winning 1969 film, Midnight Cowboy follows Joe Buck, a young man seeking ...