Episode 674: Midnight Cowboy (1969)

The Projection Booth

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

On this special episode of The Projection Booth we’re looking at John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy. It’s the story of Joe Buck (Jon Voight), a hick from Texas who goes to the big city to become a hustler. Instead, he’s hustled by everyone he meets including Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman). The two form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive in New York.

Chris Stachiw (The Kulturecast) and Jon Towlson (author of the Queer Cinema Classics book on Midnight Cowboy) join Mike to discuss the movie. Author Glenn Frankel discusses his book, Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic, and the documentary it inspired.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.1	Shut it off.
0:25.5	Turn it off.
0:27.6	Turn it off.
0:31.5	Andrew!
0:32.3	Yeah! everybody's talking I don't hear
0:53.3	word they're saying
0:54.5	Only the echoes of my mind
1:00.0	Is your misfortune and none of my own
1:04.0	Where's that Joe Buck?
1:06.0	Yeah, where's that Joe Buck?
1:08.0	I'm Joe Buck from Texas.
1:11.1	Enrico Rizzo, from the Bronx.
1:13.0	Are you sure you heard what I said?
1:14.5	My name's Rizzo.
1:15.3	Now, you heard him.
1:16.0	His name is Joe Buck.
1:17.4	He's a cowboy.
	...

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