Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (2022)

This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people who made it. It is about a troubled era of cultural ferment, social and political change, about broken dreams and strivers, then and now. It is about an era that made a movie and a movie that made an era.

Directed by: Nancy Buirski

Cast: Adam Holender, Bob Balaban, Brenda Vaccaro, Brian De Palma, Charles Kaiser, Edmund White, Ian Buruma, J. Hoberman, Jennifer Salt, Jon Voight, Lucy Sante, Michael Childers

Genres: Documentary

Rating: 7/10

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