Live Virtual Sky Room Talk:
At-Home Discussion and Q&A on MIDNIGHT
COWBOY
Hosted by author Glenn Frankel and moderated by professor Foster Hirsch
Monday, April 12th at 7:00 PM – Zoom Invitation
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Public $10 | Members $7
Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex,
Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic
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New York Times-bestselling author & Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, Glenn
Frankel as he reveals the history of Midnight Cowboy, the controversial
1969 Oscar-winning film that signaled a dramatic shift in American popular
culture. Glenn’s new book, Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness,
Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Masterpiece, takes readers
behind-the-scenes to explore the origins and impact of the Oscar-winning film.
In this
program, Glenn Frankel will lead us in a discussion on the making of
Midnight Cowboy, John Schlesinger’s adaptation of James Leo
Herlihy’s novel of the same name. The now iconic story chronicles the unlikely
friendship between a hustler who moves to New York and a con man. Starring Dustin
Hoffman and Jon Voight as "Ratso" Rizzo and Joe Buck,
Schlesinger’s film debuted in cinemas in 1969 and became one of the top
grossing movies of the year, as well as the first X-rated film to win an
Academy Award for Best Picture. It introduced realism into films about street
life in American cities and was groundbreaking in its depictions of complex
representations of LGBT identity. Midnight Cowboy has since been ranked
on the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 greatest American films of all
time.
Glenn Frankel worked for many years at the Washington Post,
where he served as bureau chief in London, Jerusalem and Southern Africa,
winning a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1989. He taught
journalism at Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, where
he directed the School of Journalism. He has won the National Jewish Book Award
and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His books on the
making of The Searchers and High Noon were bestsellers that have
won critical acclaim, and he is a Motion Picture Academy Film Scholar for his
new book, Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and
the Making of a Dark Masterpiece, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
He and his wife live in Arlington, Virginia. https://www.glennfrankel.com/
"A rare cinema book that is as mesmerizing as its subject." Kirkus Reviews
Foster Hirsch is a professor of film at Brooklyn College and the author of sixteen books on film and theater, including The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir, Otto Preminger, A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio, and Kurt Weill on Stage: From Berlin to Broadway. He regularly hosts the Cinema Arts Centre program, Film Noir Classics.
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the film prior to the discussion, you can rent it from the streaming service of
your choice, view it on DVD if you own a copy, or request a copy from your
local library. Then, join Glenn for the Zoom call discussion and Q&A
on March 12th at 7:00 PM with the provided invitation link.
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