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2023

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

Directed by Nancy Buirski

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.

Duration

1h 42m

Released

June 23, 2023

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Cast12

  • Bob Balaban
  • Ian Buruma
  • Michael Childers
  • Brian De Palma
  • James Hoberman
  • Adam Holender
  • Charles Kaiser
  • Jennifer Salt
  • Lucy Sante

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