10th Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

Midnight Cowboy

With in person.

Tue, Jun 07 @ 5:00 pm

Harvard Film Archive

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Director

John Schlesinger

Year

1969

Run Time

113

min

Country

United States

Language

English

PROGRAM Time

minutes

CONTENT WARNING:

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.

This film is presented in English with English subtitles.

Midnight Cowboy rates landmark status as not only a multi Oscar winner but the first major studio production to be branded with an X rating. Voight is incredible as Joe Buck, a naive Texan who is convinced he can make a living as a hustler to old lonely rich women. Dustin Hoffman is brilliant as Ratso Rizzo, the seedy, crippled con artist who becomes Joe’s only friend. Between the two down-and-out characters, cameos are played by New York’s mod squad of screaming Sixties superstars Viva, Ultra Violet, International Velvet, Taylor Mead and Paul Morriessey.

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