When Midnight Cowboy came out in 1969, Miami Herald critic John Huddy heralded its arrival with a string of superlatives: “Staggering, shattering, heartbreaking, hilarious, tragic, raw and absurd.”…
by James Leo Herlihy, an openly gay American writer. In the hands of Salt and Schlesinger — the gay, British, and Jewish director — the film somehow channeled the deep discontents threatening to pull apart American society.Courtesy of Michael Childers
“Because they were in a climate where homosexuality was still against the law,” Buirski notes. “And some psychiatrists, who we actually have in the film, said to the producers — Arthur Krim [chairman of United Artists], in particular — that this was a ‘gay-friendly’ movie, and that it would influence vulnerable young people to ‘cross over the fence…’ I guess they were protecting the movie.
Buirski says she began the film with Voight’s poignant recollection because “it was really important for us to put the stakes out there pretty quickly, to remind people that not only the film did really well, and it was a masterpiece, but also to remind people how risky it was.”
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