Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

Plot

This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people who made it. It is about a troubled era of cultural ferment, social and political change, about broken dreams and strivers, then and now. It is about an era that made a movie and a movie that made an era.

Cast

Bob Balaban

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Ian Buruma

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Michael Childers

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Brian De Palma

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J. Hoberman

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Adam Holender

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Charles Kaiser

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Jennifer Salt

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Lucy Sante

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Brenda Vaccaro

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Jon Voight

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Edmund White

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