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- Having been excited to work with Midnight Cowboy director John Schlesinger, Penn was disappointed by the director’s approach to the character. Talking to Alex Simon, he said, “I, too, had been an enormous fan of his. He made some great movies, no question, but we had a difficult time”.]
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Feb 26, 2021 · Later on, after Midnight Cowboy won best picture, an embarrassed board supposedly pleaded with producer Jerome Hellman and director John Schlesinger to snip a few frames of the film so...
- Glenn Frankel
Sep 29, 2016 · Mr. Schlesinger, first an actor in minor parts until 1958, then a documentary maker for the BBC for the next three years, turned to direct features in 1962 with a small and intimate masterpiece called “A Kind of Loving.”
Apr 5, 2021 · So it is not too surprising to learn that the director of “Midnight Cowboy,” John Schlesinger, had difficulty getting studio financing, which wasn’t helped by the fact that his previous...
- Louis Menand
Mar 14, 2022 · John Schlesinger's bold deconstruction of masculinity and the American dream focuses on Joe Buck (Jon Voight), a male prostitute from Texas who travels to New York City seeking fame and...
Apr 8, 2010 · But that is exactly what Midnight Cowboy did on a spring night in 1970, earning as well Oscars for its director, John Schlesinger, and its writer, Waldo Salt. This was a dramatic moment, pregnant...
Sep 3, 2019 · A gay man in an age when homosexuality was against the law in his native Britain, the Oscar-winning director eschewed political statements in favor of compassionate portrayals of the human condition.
