Description
In an era when a new wave of movies broke through the boundaries of mainstream filmmaking, Midnight Cowboy (1969) stands out as the most creative and unconventional of them all. The making of the only X-rated film to win a Best Picture Oscar offers a window onto the creative ferment and social unrest that gripped New York and America in the 1960s: the rise of gay liberation, the renaissance of New Hollywood and adult treatment of sexual themes in popular culture.
