Midnight Cowboy Blu-ray BFI Rohdie examines how Visconti introduced

Rohdie examines how Visconti introduced a heightened passionate sensibility to neorealism creating something new

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Midnight Cowboy Blu-ray BFI Rohdie examines how Visconti introduced'Midnight Cowboy' Director: John Schlesinger (1969) Criterion collection 4k restoration includes commentary, video essay, archival short, documentary on sciptwriter Waldo Salt, and much more Landmark film. Schlesinger brings his outsider's eye to New York at the end of the sixties. A tale of unlikely friendship between a naive athletically built hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy women and a physically ailing swindler with dreams of