Midnight Cowboy

To watch Midnight Cowboy is to find one of the great rewards of the movies, two of the finest performances ever seen, and a city made new every time you watch it.

A great picture, 113 minutes of stirring stuff, set to the ironic lilt of Jean "Toots" Thielemans's harmonica and Harry Nilsson's theme tune, "Everybody's Talkin'."

This is really Schlesinger's achievement. He has caught on film a slice of America as well, if not better, than one had any right to expect.

There is no question that this film is flawed by the inclusion of the party scene and Ratzo's dream, but I cannot recall a more marvelous pair of acting performances in any one film. Dustin Hoffman deserves the Oscar for a role that is prickly on the outside, but tender on the inside.

Whew! It’s shocking - a horror film but extremely well done by producer Jerome Hellman and John Schlesinger, the British director who uncannily captures the feeling for tragedy in this locale, the forced gaiety of some who have sunk to the lower depths of despair and sympathy for the two disillusioned protagonists.

The sometimes amusing but essentially sordid saga of a male prostitute in Manhattan,...Midnight Cowboy is of the modern moment moderne. It has a hot topical theme; a popular actor from last year’s greatest film comedy; a miscellany of competent bit players, a good deal of both sly and broad humor. If the women object, and some will, that it accords their sex scant courtesy, the story hardly presents males as admirable. Indeed in this film the scenery is lovely and only the human race is vile.

The acting, showy and instinctual, is most of the movie; the visual style is too forced and chicly distended to let the drama acquire much natural life of its own. It's a film that expresses a great deal of disgust toward homosexuals, while placing a sympathetic homosexual relationship at its core.

Midnight Cowboy is both an interesting and excellent piece of film history. As the first X Rated (at the time) award winning film, this movie provides both great insight into the past, and a timeless story of outcasts trying to find their way in the world. Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman give performances that are beyond belief. The script and world of the movie are brutal, raw, unforgiving, and surprisingly hopeful. The direction is peerless. This is a movie any movie buff would be proud to watch. Midnight Cowboy will stick with you long after the credits roll.

This film from the late 60's came to trace a before and after in the way of film-making and, in the process, demolished the myth of the American dream and the stereotype of the cowboy as we know it. The highlight: a budding Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight.

A grim and at times a disturbing look into the life of two complete opposites who become friends on the streets on New York. This movie is about loneliness as much as it's about friendship. Hoffman delivers in spades in what is arguably his greatest performance.

"Midnight Cowboy" conveys the grittiness and weirdness of New York better than any movie before 1969. Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight are Oscar-worthy in their roles. But the Academy was hell-bent on handing the award to an undeserving John Wayne for "True Grit. Midnight Cowboy isn't necessarily a great movie, but it's one every film-lover should see. It is still the only X-rated movie to be awarded the Oscar for Best Picture.

and none of my own.. Midnight Cowboy It is not your usual character driven feature; its bold and brutal decisions that it makes on script cringes you on your seat and still feels utterly palpable to its tone and the pragmatic characters that it is based upon. John Shlesinger; the director could have done a lot better than he did on execution for the adapted screenplay is written explicitly by Waldo Salt. Jon Voight is going "all in" in his portrayal but the real game changer is Dustin Hoffman that shines all over the screen because of the depth of his character too prior to his performance. Midnight Cowboy had an interesting concept with a smart approach that captures audience's attention from the first frame and if it was supervised a bit more strictly and better, it would have easily entered the major league.