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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 7321900560382
Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
Label: MGM Entertainment
Languages:English Original Language Dolby Digital 5.1 German Original Language Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono English Subtitled Spanish Subtitled German Subtitled Portuguese Subtitled Swedish Subtitled Danish Subtitled Dutch Subtitled Finnish Subtitled Spanish Dubbed Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: February 01, 2000
Running Time: 108 minutes
Studio: MGM Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: October 15, 1969
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
The first, and only, X-rated film to win a best picture Academy Award, John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy seems a lot less daring today (and has been reclassified as an R), but remains a fascinating time capsule of late-1960s sexual decadence in mainstream American cinema. In a career-making performance, Jon Voight plays Joe Buck, a naive Texas dishwasher who goes to the big city (New York) to make his fortune as a sexual hustler. Although enthusiastic about selling himself to rich ladies for stud services, he quickly finds it hard to make a living and eventually crashes in a seedy dump with a crippled petty thief named Ratzo Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman, doing one of his more effective "stupid acting tricks," with a limp and a high-pitch rasp of a voice). Schlesinger's quick-cut, semi-psychedelic style has dated severely, as has his ruthlessly cynical approach to almost everybody but the lead characters. But at its heart the movie is a sad tale of friendship between a couple of losers lost in the big city, and with an ending no studio would approve today. It's a bit like an urban Of Mice and Men, but where both guys are Lenny. --Jim Emerson
Rating:
- Wish I'd watched this years ago
Not only did I see this film for the first time just a couple of weeks ago, but I was fortunate enough to know hardly anything about it, other than the two lead actors and the fact that it always seem to appear on any 'films to see before you die' lists.
Shame on me - this is a fantastic film, unsettling, deeply sad, with two amazing central performances from Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman.
I'm not sure whether I could ever watch it again, as it was emotionally draining, ... Read More
Rating:
- Dazzling film art using the full box of tricks, and without an ounce of subtlety
As above, a suberb visual and aural feast. Everything is laid on very thick indeed with no apologies from the British director. He was clearly after some recognition with this dazzling movie. He also got very good performances out of his up and coming star actors. As a story though, it seriously lacks credibility, unless you see it as a comedy drama, which I've told myself to do. There's no question this film is seriously overmade, and its cheeky attempt at pathos in the ending comes as no surprise ... Read More
Rating: - Lost a few rhinestones, still compelling
This drama/tragedy, shot in partial documentary style, is surely a classic, though, like alot of "classics", has dated badly in spots (the hippie effects on the party scene - gotta have those party scenes like the other period flicks like "I Love You, Alice B. Toklas", "The Party", etc.). Yes, and the soundtrack is typically up in the mix - a more subtle, muted track would have been more effective - although, consider if Elvis Presley did take the part of Joe Buck...."well, I'm a midnight cowboy...I ... Read More
Rating: - Great film but too sad
Performances in the film were excellent. Hoffman gives a sad portrayal of a man at the end of his rope, with no money, a terrible apartment, and to make things worse he's loosing the use of his legs and he's developing pneumonia. Voight's presentment of the character Buck is superb. Buck is extraordinarily ignorant in his pursuit of his dream, but no more ignorant the Hoffman's character, Rizzo. Rizzo's dream becomes the vision of Buck, as well-going to Miami and basically living off the fat of the land.
Rating: - bleak but compelling ; full of atmosphere
This was one of the great mood pictures of the 1960s, sombre, in places squalid, but very human, evocative and involving. Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffmann give absolutely wonderful, totally mesmeric performances as two vulnerable characters, very different in many ways, who are thrown together in the unfeeling chaos of the city and struggle, in the end unsuccessfully, to cope. The haunting music, the use of flashbacks, the tacky, unfeeling cityscape, the procession of weird and inadequate characters whose paths ... Read More
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Midnight Cowboy [1969]
starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro
directed by: John Schlesinger
directed by: John Schlesinger
Our Price: 80,150.40
Prices excluding shipping charge.Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 7321900560382
Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
Label: MGM Entertainment
Languages:
Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: February 01, 2000
Running Time: 108 minutes
Studio: MGM Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: October 15, 1969
Related Items:
- Easy Rider [1969]
- The Graduate [1967]
- Marathon Man [1976]
- Bonnie And Clyde [1967]
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (2 Disc Special Edition) [1975]
- see more
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
The first, and only, X-rated film to win a best picture Academy Award, John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy seems a lot less daring today (and has been reclassified as an R), but remains a fascinating time capsule of late-1960s sexual decadence in mainstream American cinema. In a career-making performance, Jon Voight plays Joe Buck, a naive Texas dishwasher who goes to the big city (New York) to make his fortune as a sexual hustler. Although enthusiastic about selling himself to rich ladies for stud services, he quickly finds it hard to make a living and eventually crashes in a seedy dump with a crippled petty thief named Ratzo Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman, doing one of his more effective "stupid acting tricks," with a limp and a high-pitch rasp of a voice). Schlesinger's quick-cut, semi-psychedelic style has dated severely, as has his ruthlessly cynical approach to almost everybody but the lead characters. But at its heart the movie is a sad tale of friendship between a couple of losers lost in the big city, and with an ending no studio would approve today. It's a bit like an urban Of Mice and Men, but where both guys are Lenny. --Jim Emerson
Average Rating: 
Rating:
- Wish I'd watched this years agoNot only did I see this film for the first time just a couple of weeks ago, but I was fortunate enough to know hardly anything about it, other than the two lead actors and the fact that it always seem to appear on any 'films to see before you die' lists.
Shame on me - this is a fantastic film, unsettling, deeply sad, with two amazing central performances from Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman.
I'm not sure whether I could ever watch it again, as it was emotionally draining, ... Read More
Rating:
- Dazzling film art using the full box of tricks, and without an ounce of subtletyAs above, a suberb visual and aural feast. Everything is laid on very thick indeed with no apologies from the British director. He was clearly after some recognition with this dazzling movie. He also got very good performances out of his up and coming star actors. As a story though, it seriously lacks credibility, unless you see it as a comedy drama, which I've told myself to do. There's no question this film is seriously overmade, and its cheeky attempt at pathos in the ending comes as no surprise ... Read More
Rating:
- Lost a few rhinestones, still compellingThis drama/tragedy, shot in partial documentary style, is surely a classic, though, like alot of "classics", has dated badly in spots (the hippie effects on the party scene - gotta have those party scenes like the other period flicks like "I Love You, Alice B. Toklas", "The Party", etc.). Yes, and the soundtrack is typically up in the mix - a more subtle, muted track would have been more effective - although, consider if Elvis Presley did take the part of Joe Buck...."well, I'm a midnight cowboy...I ... Read More
Rating:
- Great film but too sadPerformances in the film were excellent. Hoffman gives a sad portrayal of a man at the end of his rope, with no money, a terrible apartment, and to make things worse he's loosing the use of his legs and he's developing pneumonia. Voight's presentment of the character Buck is superb. Buck is extraordinarily ignorant in his pursuit of his dream, but no more ignorant the Hoffman's character, Rizzo. Rizzo's dream becomes the vision of Buck, as well-going to Miami and basically living off the fat of the land.
Rating:
- bleak but compelling ; full of atmosphereThis was one of the great mood pictures of the 1960s, sombre, in places squalid, but very human, evocative and involving. Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffmann give absolutely wonderful, totally mesmeric performances as two vulnerable characters, very different in many ways, who are thrown together in the unfeeling chaos of the city and struggle, in the end unsuccessfully, to cope. The haunting music, the use of flashbacks, the tacky, unfeeling cityscape, the procession of weird and inadequate characters whose paths ... Read More
Action & Adventure • Adult • Anime • Children's • Classics • Comedy • Crime, Thrillers & Mystery • Documentary • Drama • Fitness • Gay & Lesbian • Horror • Interactive • Music • Musicals & Classical • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Television •
