Midnight Cowboy 4k UHD - Pre-order-18-January-2027

One of the British New Wave’s most versatile directors, John Schlesinger came to New York in the late 1960s to make Midnight Cowboy, a picaresque story of friendship that captured a city in crisis and sparked a new era of Hollywood movies. Jon Voight delivers a career-making performance as Joe Buck, a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy city women; he finds a companion in Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida, played by Dustin Hoffman in a radical departure from his breakthrough in The Graduate. A critical and commercial success despite controversy over what the MPAA termed its “homosexual frame of reference,” Midnight Cowboy became the first X-rated film to receive the Best Picture Oscar, and decades on, its influence still reverberates through cinema.

Film Info:

· United States

· 1969

· 113 minutes

· Colour

· 1.85:1

· English

· Spine #925

4K UHD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:

· N4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by cinematographer Adam Holender, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

· Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

· One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in HDR and one Blu-ray with the special features

· Audio commentary from 1991 featuring director John Schlesinger and producer Jerome Hellman

· Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of “Midnight Cowboy” (2022), a documentary by Nancy Buirski

· Video essay with commentary by Holender

· Photo gallery with commentary by photographer Michael Childers

· The Crowd Around the Cowboy, a 1969 short film made on location for Midnight Cowboy

· Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter’s Journey (1990), a documentary by Eugene Corr and Robert Hillmann

· Two short documentaries on the making and release of the film

· Interview from 1970 with actor Jon Voight on The David Frost Show

· Voight’s original screen test

· Interview from 2000 with Schlesinger for BAFTA Los Angeles

· Excerpts from the 2002 BAFTA Los Angeles tribute to Schlesinger

· Trailer

· English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

· PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Harris Cover by Jay Shaw