Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic

"More than 50 years after it was released, John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy has endured as one of the most original films in history. In his book, Glenn Frankel reveals that filming the movie, about a young man who travels to New York to become a male escort, was as difficult as it can be to watch. Frankel blends history and analysis to explore how a film “so bleak, troubling, and sexually raw that no ordinary film studio would go near it” became so groundbreaking. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in cinema and is an enthralling look at Schlesinger’s “dark, difficult masterpiece and the deeply gifted and flawed men and women who made it.”"