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Released in June 1969 — a pivotal summer\u00a0 in American life — Midnight Cowboy<\/em> has exerted an enduring fascination for generations of Americans, myself included. I first saw it at age fifteen, stayed up late to watch its Best Picture Oscar win,\u00a0 read the source novel, wore out the soundtrack, and over time showed it to friends\u00a0and family.<\/p>\n In a new documentary joining New Plaza Cinema’s lineup this weekend,\u00a0Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy <\/strong><\/em>we hear testimony from a diverse group of its creators and others still struck by its heroic influence, including actors Jon Voight, Brenda Vaccaro, and Bob Balaban, as well as Brian de Palma, Jim Hoberman, and photographer\u00a0MIchael Childers, long time friend of the film’s Oscar-winning director John Schlesinger.<\/p>\n I’ve been privileged to work with Desperate Souls’<\/em><\/strong> director Nancy Buirski on a couple of her previous releases, Afternoon of a Faun <\/em>and By Sidney Lumet<\/em>, and we’ll be very pleased to welcome her and producer Simon Kilmurry (whose credits include the excellent doc Strong Island<\/em>) for a Q&A after Sunday’s 6 pm screening.<\/p>\n Another indelible figure from that era, novelist William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie’s Choice<\/em>) looms large in our second new documentary addition to the schedule, In the Company of Rose<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0Author Rose Styron is his widow, at 95 still an articulate witness both to her decades-long work in human rights and to the couple’s complex, often turbulent marriage.\u00a0 Film and theatre director James Lapine first met her in 2014, and this portrait was the eventual result.\u00a0The NY Times’ <\/em>Glenn Kenny wrote in his review: “Lapine (a protean force in American arts who wrote the book for and directed Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George<\/em>, among others) has the means to spin a feature film out of such an encounter.”<\/p>\n Also this weekend: reprise screenings of Close to Vermeer,\u00a0It Ain’t Over <\/em><\/strong>(in an open-captioned version),\u00a0Make Me Famous<\/em><\/strong> (with another Q&A from its indefatigable producer and director Heather Spore and Brian Vincent), Scarlet,<\/em><\/strong> from rising young Italian director Pietro Marcello (Martin Eden<\/em>), and the raucous Canadian biopic, BlackBerry<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_sidebar orientation=”right” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_sidebar][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Released in June 1969 — a pivotal summer\u00a0 in American life — Midnight Cowboy has exerted an enduring fascination for generations of Americans, myself included. I first saw it at age fifteen, stayed up late to watch its Best Picture Oscar win,\u00a0 read the source novel, wore out the soundtrack, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garys-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14399"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14404,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14399\/revisions\/14404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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