Midnight Cowboy 4K UHD

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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: 4K UHD
Year: 1969
Director: John Schlesinger
Genre: Drama
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro
Runtime: 113
Language: English
Release Date: 1/12/2027
Description
One of the British New Wave’s 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 and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida, played by Dustin Hoffman in a radical departure from his breakthrough in The Graduate. A critical and commercial success despite controversy over what the MPAA termed its “homosexual frame of reference,” Midnight Cowboy became the first X-rated film to receive the Best Picture Oscar, and decades on, its influence still reverberates through cinema.
 
4K UHD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by cinematographer Adam Holender, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in HDR and one Blu-ray with the special features
• Audio commentary from 1991 featuring director John Schlesinger and producer Jerome Hellman
• Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of “Midnight Cowboy” (2022), a documentary by Nancy Buirski
• Video essay with commentary by Holender
• Photo gallery with commentary by photographer Michael Childers
• The Crowd Around the Cowboy, a 1969 short film made on location for Midnight Cowboy
• Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter’s Journey (1990), a documentary by Eugene Corr and Robert Hillmann
• Two short documentaries on the making and release of the film
• Interview from 1970 with actor Jon Voight on The David Frost Show
• Voight’s original screen test
• Interview from 2000 with Schlesinger for BAFTA Los Angeles
• Excerpts from the 2002 BAFTA Los Angeles tribute to Schlesinger
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Harris