Midnight Cowboy (1969) on Blu-ray

Actor: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Paul Benjamin, Paul Morrissey
Director: John Schlesinger
Genre: Drama
Year: 1969
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: 113
Released: 5/29/2018
Rating: R (Restricted)
Format: Blu-ray
Misc/Special Features: Widescreen, New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack, Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio, 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 Schlesinger for BAFTA Los Angeles, Excerpts from the 2002 BAFTA LA Tribute to Schlesinger, featuring Voight and actor Dustin Hoffman, Trailer, PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Harris.
Language: English
Subtitles : Yes

DESCRIPTION:

The first gay-themed Best Picture Academy Award-winner-and the first to be initially rated "X"-director John Schlesinger's gritty drama stars Jon Voight as Joe Buck, a Texas-born stud who heads to New York City with dreams of life as a high-paid hustler, and Dustin Hoffman as his newfound companion, sleazy street bum "Ratzo" Rizzo. Features the hit Nilsson song "Everybody's Talkin'." Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro co-star in this adaptation of James Leo Herlihy's novel. 113 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: English Dolby DTS HD stereo Master Audio, Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English (SDH); audio commentary; bonus documentary "Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey" (1990); bonus short "The Crowd Around the Cowboy" (1969); featurettes; theatrical trailer. Review 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.