Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

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.

NR20231h 42m5.8Movie

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Overview

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.

Cast

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