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Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (2023)

5.8/10 1h 42m Jun 23, 2023
Documentary

This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people who made it. It is about a troubled era of cultural ferment, social and political change, about broken dreams and strivers, then and now. It is about an era that made a movie and a movie that made an era.

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Movie Details

Original Title Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
Original Language EN
Status Released
Popularity 1.9

Cast

Bob Balaban
Bob Balaban
Self
Popularity: 0.9
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Ian Buruma
Self
Popularity: 0.0
Michael Childers
Michael Childers
Self
Popularity: 0.1
Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma
Self
Popularity: 0.8
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James Hoberman
Self
Adam Holender
Adam Holender
Self
Popularity: 0.1
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Charles Kaiser
Self
Popularity: 0.0
Jennifer Salt
Jennifer Salt
Self
Popularity: 1.0
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Lucy Sante
Self
Popularity: 0.0
Brenda Vaccaro
Brenda Vaccaro
Self
Popularity: 1.0
Jon Voight
Jon Voight
Self
Popularity: 1.8
Edmund White
Edmund White
Self
Popularity: 0.0

Key Crew

Executive Producer Geralyn White Dreyfous, Glen Salzman, Regina K. Scully
Producer Susan Margolin, Simon Kilmurry, Nancy Buirski
Director Nancy Buirski
Writer Nancy Buirski
Editor Anthony Ripoli

Production

Augusta Films
US

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Desperate Souls Trailer
Desperate Souls Trailer
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Keywords

filmmaking cinema history

Reviews from TMDB

Brent Marchant 4/10
Sep 5, 2023

It’s unfortunate when a filmmaker sets out to pay tribute to a cinematic classic yet somehow manages to mangle the effort, but, regrettably, that’s precisely what happened in writer-director Nancy Buirski’s attempted homage to John Schlesinger’s “Midnight Cowboy” (1969), the only X-rated ... Read more

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Details
Release Date June 23, 2023
Runtime 1h 42m
Language EN
Status Released
Popularity 1.9
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