USA/2022—directed by Nancy Buirski | 101 minutes

A half century after its release, Midnight Cowboy remains one of the ground-breaking movies of the modern era. With electric performances from Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman as loners who join forces out of desperation, blacklist survivor Waldo Salt's brilliant screenplay and John Schlesinger's fearless direction, the 1969 film became the only X-rated release to ever win the Academy Award® for Best Picture. 

Its vivid yet compassionate depiction of an unsanitized New York City and its vulnerable inhabitants paved the way for a generation’s worth of gritty movies with adult themes. More than a documentary about Midnight Cowboy, Buirski’s film is a portrait of the gifted people behind a difficult masterpiece; New York in a time of cultural ferment; and the era that made a movie and the movie that made an era.

“Makes the case that the 1969 Best Picture winner is the key film of the era.” –Adam Solomons, IndieWire