Jon Voight danced briefly on a makeshift stage in the East Room of the White House as the theme from Midnight Cowboy played and President Donald Trump prepared to award him the National Medal of Arts.

In 1969, the drama film Midnight Cowboy defied cinematic norms and audience expectations. Directed by John Schlesinger, the drama delved into the darker side of America, with themes of loneliness, ...

Inspired by Glenn Frankel’s acclaimed 2021 book “Shooting ‘Midnight Cowboy’: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation and the Making of a Dark Classic,” director Nancy Buirski (“By Sidney Lumet”) gives us ...

Even if you haven't seen John Schlesinger's Oscar-winning Midnight Cowboy, you have heard some of its dialogue. In fact, one of Midnight Cowboy's lines is so famous that many people don't realize it ...

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Midnight Cowboy was British director John Schlesinger ’s first movie outside the UK and he went out of his way to mirror New York’s desperate urban decay in the sleazy, broken-down squalor of Buck and ...

The Jon Voight-Dustin Hoffman drama won an Oscar despite the Motion Picture Association giving it an X, what’s known today as NC-17. By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer Ira Sachs’ Passages (released Aug ...

Glenn Frankel’s new book explores the making of a film that has become almost synonymous with New York City. Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy, 1969. (Photo by United Artists / Courtesy ...

There’s a grim scene toward end of James Leo Herlihy’s novel “Midnight Cowboy” in which Joe Buck, a male hustler working Times Square, brutally beats a hapless gay businessman in a cheap hotel room ...