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Product Description ------------------- The first gay-themed Best Picture Academy Award-winner-and the first to be initially rated "X"-director John Schlesinger's gritty drama stars Jon Voight as Joe Buck, a Texas-born stud who heads to New York City with dreams of life as a high-paid hustler, and Dustin Hoffman as his newfound companion, sleazy street bum "Ratzo" Rizzo. Features the hit Nilsson song "Everybody's Talkin'." Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro co-star in this adaptation of James Leo Herlihy's novel. 113 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: English Dolby DTS HD stereo Master Audio, Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English (SDH); audio commentary; bonus documentary "Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey" (1990); bonus short "The Crowd Around the Cowboy" (1969); featurettes; theatrical trailer. Review ------ 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 “sexual frame of reference,” Midnight Cowboy became the first X-rated film to receive the best picture O, and decades on, its influence still reverberates through cinema. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES * New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack * Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio * Audio commentary from 1991 featuring director John Schlesinger and producer Jerome Hellman * New selected-scene commentary by cinematographer Adam Holender * The Crowd Around the Cowboy, a 1969 short film made on location for Midnight Cowboy * Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter’s Journey, an Academy Award–nominated documentary from 1990 by Eugene Corr and Robert Hillmann * Two short 2004 documentaries on the making and release of Midnight Cowboy * Interview with actor Jon Voight on The David Frost Show from 1970 * Interview from 2000 with Schlesinger for BAFTA Los Angeles * Excerpts from the 2002 BAFTA LA Tribute to Schlesinger, featuring Voight and actor Dustin Hoffman * Trailer * PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Harris