Midnight Cowboy details
| Formats: | 18 DVD, Blu-ray |
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| Starring: | Bob, Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles, Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver, Ruth White, Barnard Hughes, Bob Balaban, Paul Morrissey, Viva |
| Director: | John Schlesinger |
| Genre: | Drama - General |
| Studio: | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Collections: | American Film Institute's top 100, Best Picture Oscar Winners |
| Name | Discs | |
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Midnight Cowboy |
18 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 48 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 01 Feb 2000 |
| Main languages: | English |
| Dubbed: | German, French, Spanish, Italian |
| Subtitles: | Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish |
| Hearing impaired subtitles: | English, German |
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Midnight Cowboy
By a customer from Leamington Spa, England , 09 Jan 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
Midnight Cowboy
D. John Schlesinger
This was Schlesinger?s first film in America. It stars John Voight as Joe Buck, a rather simple minded Texan who fancies his chances as a gigolo in the Big Apple. As he takes the bus to New York we get a taste of Schlesinger?s style of interlacing flashbacks and dreams as Joe dozes and day dreams of his Texas boyhood and youth. Once he gets to New York he soon finds that being a hustler is not quite as simple as he thought it would be, in fact when he asks his first ?client? for money after an hour in the sack she cons him out of $100.
Dustin Hoffman is Ratso Rizzo, a crippled, lowlife petty thief existing hand to mouth in New York and they first meet up when Ratso cons the simple Joe out of $20. In the ensuing hour or so they get to be buddies and sharing a squat in an abandoned building take the slide into the New York winter and desperation together.
Hoffman and Voight are superb and it is rather a pity that they missed Oscars for their performances although it would be hard to begrudge John Wayne his only Oscar.
This is a ?must see? film which shows little signs of aging except possibly in it?s Warholesque party scenes.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(102)Must see classic
By Bobsview (549 reviews) from Gloucestershire , 05 Apr 2013Classic 60s must see iconic very good film. Dustin Hoffman / John Voight. Still very good although a little dated. The two lead roles are amazing. Great 60s soundtrack .- Was this review helpful to you?
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Horrible film
By a customer , 11 Jul 2012This is one of the classic films which I was expecting to be good. I not only found it to be slow moving and ponderous but what a horrible story. I hated it and switched it off half way through. Not recommended.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Brilliant! A Must Watch Film
By clare2904 (10 reviews) from Preston , 02 Mar 2012Firstly, how on earth did Voight not win an Oscar for the performance of Joe? An absolute scandal!!
This film was just a marvel to watch. From the start you believe in the characters, you understand them, you feel them. The interaction between the two leads is compelling from the moment they meet in the bar.
For me the performance of Voight was what made the film. The way he displays the characters naivety, happy-go-lucky optimism but also vulnerability is beautiful. Joe is summed up perfectly in the final scenes on the bus.- Was this review helpful to you?
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A classic piece of cinema.
By gingerspike (410 reviews) from Grimsby , 20 Jan 2012Okay, so the film is rather dated (hey, 1969 was a long time ago!) but both the lead performances are excellently played out. I hadn't seen this film for a few years and wanted to introduce my partner to it as she hadn't seen it before. Needless to say, I still enjoyed it thoroughly, and she loved it. A truly classic(and quite funny) drama.- Was this review helpful to you?
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The ego and the id.
By Kowalski (38 reviews) , 10 Dec 2011I had been wanting to see this film for a while, and from the opening scene I knew it wasn't going to be a let down. Voight's Joe Buck is immediately revealed as a naive and deluded character who hides behind his self-confident facade, and this balance - between the outward strength and the weaker and damaged inner self - is maintained throughout. Voight walks this line perfectly. The film is full of contrasts like this and I think they add to its texture: the cowboy Buck is contrasted against the metropotitan New York and its inhabitants; his naivety against their abrubtness; his honesty and size against Hoffman's diminutive thief; his representation of an America of old against the New York hipsters in the party scene.
The film succeeds in involving the audience as the two lead characters get to know one another, so we begin to sympathise with Hoffman's character as Buck does, a character who is on the surface repugnent but is revealed, by an excellent performance by Hoffman, to be as broken and as vulnerable as his naive friend.
Great soundtrack, too.- Was this review helpful to you?
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