WATCH PARTY: Midnight Cowboy (1969) John Schlesinger @ Mary Pretlow Library

Winner of three Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay, with Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, and Sylvia Miles also being nominated for their performances. We'll be in the conference room on the 2nd floor, to the left as you get off the elevator/stairs. RUNTIME: 113 minutes RATING: R SYNOPSIS: Convinced of his irresistible appeal to women, Texas dishwasher Joe Buck (Jon Voight) quits his job and heads for New York City, thinking he'll latch on to some rich dowager. New York, however, is not as hospitable as he imagined, and Joe soon finds himself living in an abandoned building with a Dickensian layabout named Enrico Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman). The two form a rough alliance, and together they kick-start Joe's hustling career just as Ratso's health begins to deteriorate. BLURBS: "Midnight Cowboy is America's challenge to any film from foreign shores... From now on, it is going to be difficult for the cinema snob to declare tritely that films in this country are made for immature audiences." - Marjory Adams, *Boston Glob* "Midnight Cowboy is an extraordinary movie, a compelling movie, a movie rich and powerful enough to print its images indelibly on the mind's eye. It just may turn out to be The Great American Movie." - Susan Stark, *Detroit Free Press* "Long after it was first released, Midnight Cowboy remains one of a handful of films that stay in our memory after the others have evaporated." - Roger Ebert