Midnight Cowboy (33:43)
A small-time cartoonish cowboy hits the big time and struggles to find his dimwitted footing. This portrait of NYC in the late ‘60s is rough and grimy. At least stars Jon Voight & Dustin Hoffman get to share a bromance before that word even existed. Do we think this Oscar-winner, that’s riddled with fantasies & flashbacks, holds up? G’head and find out!
LINKS:
Midnight Cowboy and Midnight Cowboy novel details on Wikipedia
Links to: John Schlesinger and Waldo Salt
1969 Academy Award winners and nominees
YouTube links: “I’m walkin’ here!” and the party scene
Next week on the T100P: The Wild Bunch
One of my favourite ‘Flight of the Conchords’ episodes is partly based on this movie, as you can tell from Jemaine’s outfit here: