Midnight Cowboy

Superb performances and a compelling script have made this film a strange mix of Oscar-winner and Cult Classic.

Schlesinger’s camera discovers everywhere something rarely glimpsed in Hollywood movies – poverty.

Midnight Cowboy is a good movie with a masterpiece inside, struggling to break free.

Talented Englishman Schlesinger had an unerring eye for capturing the grimy reality of New York...

Even at its most overbearing, the movie never loses sight of what it's like to want something and have no idea how to get it. Midnight Cowboy bleeds with that feeling...