Midnight Cowboy

My Own Private Idaho

in person

Tue Jun 04, 7:30 pm at New Beverly Cinema

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Double feature! Two iconic male sex work films from two cinematic revolutions. First up, the problematic AF 1969 Midnight Cowboy, about a delusional hustler who thinks he can make a living in Times Square with only female clients; then a New Queer Cinema breakout from Van Sant.

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Promblematic AF

Midnight Cowboy

John Schlesinger

1969

113 min

United States

English

Movie Summary: Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

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My Own Private Idaho

Gus Van Sant

1991

104 min

United States

English

Movie Summary: In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV,” Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike’s estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.

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