Midnight Cowboy - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)

Midnight Cowboy - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)One of the British New Waves 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

How Music Works is David Byrne’s buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about

and Harry O

“Me and My Woman” is one of the funkiest Blues tunes ever recorded

and identity

and it provided a prescient glimpse of just how gossip- and fame-obsessed our society would become

Hugh Lawson on piano

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who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble and who kept his hands in his pockets “the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case

with the city and its inhabitants burning above him

He was the first international film star and rapidly one of the richest men in the world

Walt Disney created a unique and unrivaled imaginative universe

by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom