DOC NYC Selects Spring 2023
Date: April 25, 2023
Time: 7:00pm ET
Venue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYC
TRT: 101 minutes
Filmmaker Nancy Buirski’s newest film examines the deeply gifted and flawed people behind the dark and difficult masterpiece that is 1969’s enduring classic Midnight Cowboy. Buriski delves deep into New York City in a troubled time of cultural ferment; and the era that made a movie and the movie that made an era. Featuring extensive archival material and compelling new interviews, this extraordinary documentary illuminates how one film captured the essence of a time and a place, reflecting a rapidly changing society with striking clarity.
The screening was followed by an on-stage conversation with filmmaker Buirski, producer Susan Margolin and Ian Buruma and Michael Childers.