Midnight Cowboy, Desparate Souls, Directed by Nancy Buirski.
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- Опубліковано 28 жов 2024
- The iconic 1969 Academy Award winner Midnight Cowboy set the tone for films to come, revealed the seedy side of New York, and closed the book on a decade of flower power. Feature doc DESPARATE SOULS, DARK CITY and the LEGEND of MIDNIGHT COWBOY digs deep into not only “the making of,” but “the moment of “ as well. Director Nancy Buirski talks with Westdoc about her background as a photographer and painter, editorial collaboration, and why the original film was “inevitable.”
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A blink in time
Why didn't Ratso participate in the film :(
Apparently he wasn’t available :(
Never a Fkn word about James Leo Herlihy's book. You see this sort of thing all the time. Its like going on about Kubrick and 'A Clockwork Orange' instead of investigating literal Powerhouse that wrote the fkn story in the first place. But that reading stuff is too hard. Sigh. And it is weird that this is the case since both of these films did not deviate very far from the original visions and dialogue of the works. Pseudo sophistication rolling its tongue over watching a film. A rather large portion of North American Popular Culture and its history is dying a painful death and the abundance of ignorance certainly isnt helping. And that includes babyboomers. Surely, SOME of them were reading werent they? The Writers always get covered up by Directors and cast members. Is there a contempt for writers or something?
First of all, you're damn right. Secondly, funny you should say this. I was living in Los Angeles in 1994 and attended a 25th Anniversary screening of Midnight Cowboy in Westwood. At the end of the film, a special "In Honor of" was added before the closing credits and it was to singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson, who had recently passed away, that month I believe. But NOTHING for James Leo Herlihy who had ALSO recently passed away (suicide at 66) just a few weeks before Nilsson! I remember sitting there dumbfounded by that! Sure, I'm a Nilsson fan, but he didn't even write "Everybody's Talkin'", it was written by Fred Neil. Nilsson only performed it. There's simply no Midnight Cowboy without Herlihy having written the book--which I read and enjoyed immensely. Years later, I was watching the Oscars and listened to Eric Roth accept his Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for adapting Forrest Gump for the big screen and, shame on him, writer-to-writer, never thanked or even mentioned Winston Groom who wrote the novel Forrest Gump on which Roth's script was fully based! Then Robert Zemeckis accepts his Best Director Award for Gump and never mentions Groom either!! The view must be nice when standing on the writer's shoulders.
Did you actually watch the film lol it’s talked about at length
@@712rocketmanThats a very sad thing. I want to say that the suicide was probably a factor but I cant bring myself to say that is an excuse. Look at this presentation. The nerve. They mention Glen Frankle's (sp) book ,which is also about the making of the movie but who needs Leo? All about the movie. All about the making of the movie. Within that same month you say? WOW
@@colleenhaggerty4402I'm referring to THIS presentation(This interview) , And several others I might add. Forgive me but that bothers me. Especially when they ask what this story or scene is all about. But your point is well taken and I'm sure people will be glad to know that.
18:13 Whats that you say? Writers getting credit? Speaking of which, I find this interview most interesting. (Oh we dont go near suicide or illegitimate children in conversation. )