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<\/a><\/p>\nDesperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
\nby Nancy Buirski
\n(Usa, 101\u2019, 2022) <\/p>\n
1969: with Midnight Cowboy, John Schlesinger, Waldo Salt and Jerome Hellman created a classic and changed the course of movie making. The studio system was sinking under its own weight; independent filmmaking was waiting in the wings for a chance to break through, although not necessarily with a movie that dealt with prostitution, sordid crime and had a homosexual subtext. But emerging out of the protests of the \u201860s and the tragic murders of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., society was ready to face reality.<\/p>\n
The result was the only X-rated film to ever win the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Oscars as well for the spirited direction by John Schlesinger – who came out as homosexual during the shooting -, and the brilliant screenplay by blacklist survivor Waldo Salt. Midnight Cowboy paved the way for a generation\u2019s worth of gritty, New York-based movies with adult themes and complex characters, and, a half century after its release, remains one of the most original and groundbreaking movies of the modern era. <\/p>\n
Glenn Frankel\u2019s acclaimed book, \u201cShooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation and the Making of a Dark Classic,\u201d is the basis for this documentary that is not about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a dark and difficult masterpiece and the deeply gifted and flawed people who made it. It is about New York in a troubled era of cultural ferment and social change.<\/p>\n
Contacts: Augusta Films, www.augustafilms.com<\/p>\n
Presented in Venice Classics<\/p>\n
01\/09 09:00 Sala Corinto | press, industry
\n01\/09 17:00 Sala Casin\u00f2 | tickets, all accreditations
\n02\/09 17:00 Sala Volpi | tickets, all accreditations<\/p>\n