The Criterion Collection

Midnight Cowboy

Edition no. 925

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  • Release Date: May 29 2018
  • Country of Release: USA
  • MSRP: $29.95
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MGM Home Entertainment
Directed by: John Schlesinger
One of the British New Wave’s most versatile directors, John Schlesinger came to New York in the late-1960s to make Midnight Cowboy, a picaresque story of friendship that captured a city in crisis and sparked a new era of Hollywood movies. Jon Voight delivers a career-making performance as Joe Buck, a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy city women; he finds a companion in Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida, played by Dustin Hoffman in a radical departure from his breakthrough in The Graduate. A critical and commercial success despite controversy over what the MPAA termed its “homosexual frame of reference,” Midnight Cowboy became the first X-rated film to receive the best picture Oscar, and decades on, its influence still reverberates through cinema.
  • Year: 1969
  • Time: 113 min.

Technical Specifications

Format: DVD
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 (Anamorphic)
Audio: English 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono , English 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround
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Subtitles: English
Region: 1
Discs: 2 Discs |  DVD-9

Supplements

  • Audio commentary from 1991 featuring director John Schlesinger and producer Jerome Hellman
  • New selected-scene commentary by cinematographer Adam Holender
  • The Crowd Around the Cowboy, a 1969 short film made on location for Midnight Cowboy
  • Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter’s Journey, an Academy Award–nominated documentary from 1990 by Eugene Corr and Robert Hillmann
  • Two short 2004 documentaries on the making and release of Midnight Cowboy
  • Interview with actor Jon Voight on The David Frost Show from 1970
  • Interview from 2000 with John Schlesinger for BAFTA Los Angeles
  • Excerpts from the 2002 BAFTA LA Tribute to John Schlesinger, featuring Jon Voight and actor Dustin Hoffman
  • Trailer
  • An essay by critic Mark Harris

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