'Midnight Cowboy' | Critics' Picks

'Midnight Cowboy' | Critics' Picks | The New York Times

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15 жыл бұрын

A.O. Scott reviews John Schlesinger's 1969 Oscar-winner for best picture.
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@MarzanWorldwide 5 жыл бұрын

My Mother was in this film , as a waitress in the Donut shop scene. I am very proud that she was even a small part of an iconic film!

@sclogse1 5 жыл бұрын

She's important. Represented the other choice. When a waitress wants to talk to you, you're in a golden light.

@MarzanWorldwide 5 жыл бұрын

@sclogse ......Thank You brother.

@EagleRockers 5 жыл бұрын

I think that's fantastic! Is she still with us? How proud of her you must be; I really mean that.

@MarzanWorldwide 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, thankfully she’s 82 now but with dementia Thank you all for your kind kind words

@lisam2332 4 жыл бұрын

I hope your mom is doing well. This is one of my favorite movies. I rented it. I’ll watch out for your mom!

@slyslaughter5115 6 жыл бұрын

The humanity in this film jumps off the screen. It still shakes me so many decades later.

@russg1801 5 жыл бұрын

Hoffman made this film just two years after The Graduate, and portrays someone significantly older and with an entirely different background and life experience. He could play anything.

@johnhaughey8346 3 жыл бұрын

Hoffman always said that he was a character actor at heart and that's where he feels more comfortable playing these type of roles. I can't image anyone else playing Ratso Rizzo, he owned it.

@AlonsoRules 2 жыл бұрын

imagine if he was in The Godfather or Apocalypse Now

@angelamatlock8740 5 жыл бұрын

Best "friends" movie of all time

@sclogse1 5 жыл бұрын

Even the film stock is perfect in this great film. By the way that harmonica at the end, it's Toots Theilsmans. Brilliant musician who helped create the 60's Quincy Jones sound, along with Rahssan Roland Kirk.

@slyslaughter5115 5 жыл бұрын

He followed Quincy into the 70s too (Smackwater Jack LP).

@spaceghostman 14 жыл бұрын

One of the best movie ever! So raw even for today.

@TheSaltyLibrarian 13 жыл бұрын

That accent. Dustin Hoffman is a beast.

@robertmatheus8004 5 жыл бұрын

I love this film so much, especially the editing. the flashbacks fit so well!

@bigpete111100 4 жыл бұрын

One of those rare films you saw as a child and can remember it like you saw it yesterday

@scottmanduzy 13 жыл бұрын

this film, although a bit dated, (40 yrs.) is a true testament to the lonliness and bleakness of the streets on NY. Sad and depressing it nonetheless capturesand delivers the tale of an unusual bond between a crippled hustler and naive cowboy. In the closeup of Voight we can see the facial beauty of Angelina.

@scottmanduzy 13 жыл бұрын

Enrico Rizzo from the bronx

@seang3393 4 жыл бұрын

Dustin Hoffman plays the street wise New Yorker, Voight the hick from Texas. In real life, Hoffman was from LA and Voight was from Yonkers.

@EagleRockers 5 жыл бұрын

God bless Sylvia Miles; She passed away recently.

@hilaritytank 15 жыл бұрын

Worth watching if you haven't seen it. Dustin Hoffman is great.

@dbag3345 5 жыл бұрын

Voight's better

@scottmanduzy 13 жыл бұрын

I'm walkin here!

@daytripperhd 5 жыл бұрын

Real cabby incident. Drove right onto the set. Improvised by Hoffman.

@andrewattenboroughtwothumb4697 2 жыл бұрын

one of my favourite classic movies and the ending is so sad

@miroslavseda9136 Жыл бұрын

It was pretty much obvious, that won't be a "tough criticism", because this movie is a classical masterpiece. Nothing is wrong with this film, all of the actors/actresses were phenomenal. All the characters, the main roles, the support roles, or even the extras. Just a pure art, a pleasure to see... Only bad thing personally for me is, that it was not released on 4K Blu-Ray, but just a standard one. I would like to buy a 4K Blu-Ray of this jewel.

@ethanhughes7462 3 жыл бұрын

some of the best editing i have seen in a film

@guidosanchez5695 Жыл бұрын

I agree. The cutting is superb.

@terrybear5398 3 жыл бұрын

My most favorite movie ever.

@LordGreystoke 7 жыл бұрын

Look at Jon Voight's face on the bus next to Rizzo. Does that face look like a person who has reached a new level of maturity and wisdom?? What is A.O. Scott talking about?? Joe Buck is as scared as hell! He briefly found friendship and then it was taken away from him and now he's back alone. This story is ultimately about human loneliness. How we make attempts at reaching out and forming relationships only to have those relationships die on us, leaving us scared and terribly...alone.

@LordGreystoke 7 жыл бұрын

I'll grant you that. I didn't think about the fact that Rizzo died in the warm sunshine and in the company of Joe. But I still feel that Joe does not look very confident. More very worried.

@TextbookGerm 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, he threw away the cowboy getup and admitted his plans of hustling in the city were bum. He’s looking towards a more conventional future. He shed some of his naïveté and gained a new perspective. I would say he reached a new level of maturity.

@daytripperhd 5 жыл бұрын

Nope. I agree with Scott. Sorry. Watch it again.

@CongregationEmanuElSF 5 жыл бұрын

@@daytripperhd No need to watch it again. Joe Buck maybe wiser for it but he's scared. Watch it again.

@filthyphillyboy 5 жыл бұрын

Toward the very end his facial expression is extremely resolute. Watch clip again.

@angelamatlock8740 5 жыл бұрын

My fave movie of all time

@valerieross897 4 жыл бұрын

Agree one of the best films ever made and the best music score!! That haunting harmonica!!

@KING7CANTONA 5 жыл бұрын

AMAZING FILM

@rickymurray 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing story, just watched it for the first time, reminded me of my friendships as a child

@michelez715 2 жыл бұрын

I didn't see it as Joe Buck reaching "a new level of maturity and wisdom". I just saw him as lonelier than ever.

@frickadele 14 жыл бұрын

This movie is too good to rate. To describe....is to distort.

@slyslaughter5115 6 жыл бұрын

agreed. it is timeless.

@daytripperhd 5 жыл бұрын

Very profound. touche'

@valerieross897 4 жыл бұрын

@@daytripperhd wonderful!

@guidosanchez5695 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's a good point. I agree.

@jamesdrynan 3 ай бұрын

This is an excellent film all around. Starting in late 1960s, movie finales took a dark turn. Films like this one, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Boys in the Band and many others had no happy endings.

@junkboxxxxxx 5 жыл бұрын

It was rated X because the MPAA thought the homosexuality was inappropriate for

@helenkerr4883 5 ай бұрын

Fantastic movie, great acting and the music was awesome.

@mamabari07 5 жыл бұрын

How cool films once really were.. Sigh!

@watsonxox7145 3 жыл бұрын

They still are, you just gotta look in the right places!

@bittmanbobby 2 жыл бұрын

I just watched it last night for the 1st time and it holds up. It's ahead of it's time and still is

@garryfitzgerald6233 2 жыл бұрын

They don't make them like this anymore!

@dani9714 13 жыл бұрын

@robotpanda77 This film is nothing like a western, I don't know what you're talking about. Oh well, I guess you really need to sit down and watch this movie, and if you already have...then do it again, please.

@ibnbattuta1304 4 жыл бұрын

Mr. O'Daniel was the salesman in Breakfast at Tiffany's ☺️

@cameronpickard7456 3 жыл бұрын

best acting of all time by both

@hinzuzufugen7358 3 жыл бұрын

One of those films which open The Doors of perception - to certain interesting worlds - NYC around 1970 - and persisting problems as the breakdown of families especially in the US. An audiovisual treat, a disturbing dip into the misery on the margins of society. How Joe Buck gets to "maturity and wisdom" at the end I don't understand. Amazing to find Dustin Hoffman again riding in a bus at the end of a movie but so different.

@EvanSlater-gv7tu Ай бұрын

15 year old video on KZfaq wow awesome stuff

@kennarajora6532 2 жыл бұрын

2:29 Epic Of Gilgamesh - 2100 B.C Illiad - 762 B.C *Huckleberry Fin - 1884*

@themanwithaharmonica9328 Жыл бұрын

Hey! His name is Rico.

@cameronpickard7456 3 жыл бұрын

shoulda got best actor oscar either of them giving it to wayne was a sham

@SmithMrCorona 5 жыл бұрын

A new level of maturity and wisdom? Huh? I don't think AO and I watched the same third act.

@MapleSyrupPoet Ай бұрын

It's a unique 1 of a kind film 🎥 not unlike Marty's 🚕 Taxi Driver

@thesecondYouTube Жыл бұрын

The one perfect movie.

@psychokarloff 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant cast, down to the smallest role.

@muddeer5383 2 ай бұрын

this reviewer obviously saw the r-rated version of the movie. the x-rating was well deserved for the original version

@Unsung_Earth Жыл бұрын

Hoffman the goat

@9UaYXxB 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations "A. O.", for your attempt to encapsulate a sublime film and in the process trivializing it. But the film will survive (easily) your feather light appraisal.