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I saw it in 1970 during the start of my senior year in high school. It had been edited from the initial release the year before from X to R. Three of us skipped school that afternoon to go see it. I have it on my DVR and recently rewatched it. Still as powerful now as it was back 50+ years ago.
Saw this wonderful movie when it came out. Broke my heart, but so beautiful and raw and memorable. Thank you for this video. It took me back in time ...
I'm 78 Bud .....after living in Asia for 17 yrs doing aid work ...I came back to America 2 yrs ago due to Covid.... America is NO place for old folks. It's horrifying here.
Dustin Hoffman was an extremely lucky man when he started out in the movies in the 1960’s. He got starring roles in two of the very best movies or that decade, or any other decade for that matter!. This movie “Midnight Cowboy” and “The Graduate” were both wonderful movies and remain two of my all-time favourites.
Love this film it's so sad but their performances are amazing especially Hoffman, it shows how hard it is to survive..times haven't changed at all really
A lot of people say “The Graduate” or “Bonnie and Clyde” or even “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” was the movie that really changed Hollywood filmmaking - but I’d like to think it was THIS - "Midnight Cowboy" - that really changed the scope and potential of film-making.
Classic movie. Tells quite a story about America. I didnt see it until I was older. I was too young when it came out. But it really struck me when I did see it.
I just remembered as a child looking at the glorious sun rays pouring through the leaves of a tree. Birds flying everywhere in that same tree. And in the background listening to this song!!!!! It is simply amazing back in 1975!!!!!!!
one of the best movies of all time. i have seen it many times and it still touches my heart. wish i could go back to 70,s . love looking at the cars and everything else from this time
For a film directed by a British person, Midnight Cowboy has more Americana going for it than most films ever produced in my opinion. Great writing and acting. I saw this X Rated film (I think the first ever) when it came out in the theatres. One of the best movies of all time in my opinion. I'm also a Harry Nilsson fan, have lots of his records.
When this song came out I was 12 years old. I loved singing along to songs on the radio and this one was like my "Theme Song". Think about it when your 12 you're not a teen yet but you're not a cute little boy either. I felt like I didn't belong in either crowd but I really wanted to grow up into a teen. So many pretty girls that didn't notice me, so many cool things to do but I wasn't invited. This song really hit home and helped me through that time. Still makes me smile.
Dustin Hoffman's shouting at the cab wasn't acting and wasn't in the script. The street had been cordoned off to film the scene but the taxi barreled through the set. When he tried to plow past the actors, what you see is his nearly hitting them. Hoffman's furious response "we're walking here!" was genuine.
ive got 49 years old, when i listen for first time this songs in intro of The Midnight Cowboy, chills me all mi skin, so sad and poetical. the lyric here its precious, one of the most beatiful songs ever. Harry Nilson have a voice of an angel
At 0:40 - this was when the MONY Building's degree sign (on the third lamp bank) took up 14 bulbs in a 6 x 5 grid. That lighting arrangement dated to about 1960-61. And yes, this was the display that entranced Tommy James to co-write "Mony Mony" (which was a hit for him and his group, The Shondells, when this was being filmed). Notice, out of 131 bulbs on the 56th Street side (facing south), two are missing, thus only 129 are in place. (And on the Broadway side, facing east, 128 of 130 bulbs are present.) In 1972-73, the top frontage would be radically altered with the then-current MONY logo, and the degree sign changed to 12 bulbs in a 5 x 5 grid.
I first watched this movie as a teenager probably in the late '70s or very early '80s. I remember telling my dad somethinbg like "it's such a realistic depiction of NYC!". (I grew up in rural Ohio) My dad replied "well, it's A depiction of NYC!". As usual, he was right. As a young adult, I loved NYC. Of colurse, Nilsson's song is incredible.
I arrived in NYC from Joburg South Africa, it blew my mind away, rough, tough dirty, tis was ‘85 I was 23, I immediately fell in love with the place, hustling and bustling, felt like I had come home.
@@gavinbolton-ou6tv As a suburban middle class white boy, going to NYC was life-changing. Visiting the Bronx and Yankee Stadium in the late 70s and stepping outside from a bus onto a concrete jungle blew me away. 20 years later walking up the stairs from a lower Village subway stop and being slapped with such a visceral bolt of energy that exuded from the place. Walking the streets feeling more relaxed than any place I'd ever been. Loved it all.
Having spent quite a bit of time in and around NYC, I respectfully disagree with your dad - and commend you - for grasping the brilliance of this picture in capturing - yes - a realistic depiction of the city in laying bare its grimy soul.
Everybody's talkin' at me I don't hear a word they're sayin' Only the echoes of my mind People stoppin', starin' I can't see their faces Only the shadows of their eyes I'm goin' where the sun keeps shinin' Through the pourin' rain Goin' where the weather suits my clothes Bankin' off of the northeast winds Sailin' on summer breeze And skippin' over the ocean like a stone I'm goin' where the sun keeps shinin' Through the pourin' rain Goin' where the weather suits my clothes Bankin' off of the northeast winds Sailin' on summer breeze And skippin' over the ocean like a stone Everybody's talkin' at me
I've always liked this song it turned up on my TH-cam feed just at the right time as I was feeling kinda grumpy and a little bit angry all better now thanks to this song 🎵
I love movies that picture gritty stories that some people find themselves in. Stories that picture Life and some of the crazy dilemmas people get into. Life is not always Sunshine and roses, even though we're always chasing after just that. But they muddle through somehow. 🍃
Amazing song,and I love Dustin Hoffman ,great actor Tootsie,Kramer versus Kramer,The Graduate That my favourite movies of him,and I love era of this movie
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I saw it in 1970 during the start of my senior year in high school. It had been edited from the initial release the year before from X to R. Three of us skipped school that afternoon to go see it. I have it on my DVR and recently rewatched it. Still as powerful now as it was back 50+ years ago.
Me too..senior year...Durant Oklahoma
I alway appreciated Mr Bellows from next door
Me and my son’s favourite film, he sadly passed away aged 38. We played this at his funeral. Marvellous memories 😢
What a great, melancholic movie.
Only true art is capable of letting real beauty shimmer through tragedy and despair.
Agree
Because that’s what life…beautifully tragic, tragically beautiful… etc
First and only X rated movie ever to win an Oscar for best picture. "Skipping over the ocean like a stone" with unforgettable characters and music.
Evokes so many memories and deep feelings of times passed
I can't begin to say how much I Identify with this without revealing myself. It's deep.
I feel the same way. I love it but I also feel melancholy watching and listening to this clip.
Ii watch it each summer just to feel that.
I get homesick to be back in those times 🇦🇺👌
Nilson is a brilliant songwriter and singer. This unforgettable film keeps this song alive.
Nilsson was great. Fred Neil wrote that song.
as a young man at the time of this movie im not ashamed to say i cried at the end, still love the sound track
Saw this wonderful movie when it came out. Broke my heart, but so beautiful and raw and memorable. Thank you for this video. It took me back in time ...
Thank You , it was nice to remember so many things , sitting here at 70 yrs old, this stuff keeps you going ...
I'm 78 Bud .....after living in Asia for 17 yrs doing aid work ...I came back to America 2 yrs ago due to Covid.... America is NO place for old folks. It's horrifying here.
Nostalgia. Moments and memories (good or bad) that`s what life is all about my friends.
@@gingeralireminds me of me as youngster listening on the Radio oblivious to what was to come cheers 🇦🇺👌
@@PatrickKelly-b8o I'm sorry Sir, I am 46. I care about you. I live in CA. I have always cared about the elderly. I know my place. God bless.
@@PatrickKelly-b8owhat’s wrong with it at 78 ?
Dustin Hoffman was an extremely lucky man when he started out in the movies in the 1960’s. He got starring roles in two of the very best movies or that decade, or any other decade for that matter!. This movie “Midnight Cowboy” and “The Graduate” were both wonderful movies and remain two of my all-time favourites.
Midnight Cowboy, yes, but The Graduate? It doesn't hold up. 8th graders aren't that naïve.
you mean Little, Big Man
He is a great actor. it sure heped to be in such fims but it was given he whould do great roles sooner or later :)
Kind of lucky but talent begets fortune.
@@jre617 a lot of innovations in that movie of Mike Nichols and that shot between Anne Bancroft's legs is legend.
What a movie. What a song. Both so unbelievably awesome
Real
Back when film and music was epic.
64 years old and reminiscing profusely. One of the best films I have ever seen, within my lifetime.
This film is so poignant at the end it always makes me tear up. They were truly friends.
Hofffman and Voight put in their best ever performances in this superb movie, arguably the best film produced in the states.
um dos melhores filmes e causou impacto pra época.
Filmaso 1969 nós cine Santa Efigênia em Belo Horizonte no meus 17 anos hoje o cinema está em ruina
One of the best films ever. ❤❤❤
Dustin’s finest role, never bettered in his whole career.
Love this film it's so sad but their performances are amazing especially Hoffman, it shows how hard it is to survive..times haven't changed at all really
Well observed - the more things change, the more they stay the same.
True
One of the greatest motion pictures Eva!!!!
A lot of people say “The Graduate” or “Bonnie and Clyde” or even “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” was the movie that really changed Hollywood filmmaking - but I’d like to think it was THIS - "Midnight Cowboy" - that really changed the scope and potential of film-making.
Loving nod to all the key moments in this extraordinary film - beautiful editing job which evoked memories and emotions. Thank you!
Beautiful song and great movie!
Still my favourite film , my dad let me stay up to watch the film , been a Harry fan ever since
An iconic American movie.
Certainly one of the best !
Hoffman and Voight are acting masters. I miss them in real movies.
Only Harry could sing this song. Great film.
great song great film great actors
Voight and Hoffman, what a duo. Wish they could make more together. Gratitude for what they made eternal x
This movie is timeless 💫
Agree
Great film . I ❤ that song
Me too
Harry Nilsson, the composer and performer of this classic tune had a string of hits. He was a very talented but troubled artist.
Harry didnt compose this song, he did compose many great songs but this wasnt one of them.
But nilkson wasn't the original songwriter Fred Neil was
Nilsson didn't write this song.
NIlsson didn't write it, but he definitely made it his own. He wrote many classics, though.
Classic film and song poignant memories of beautiful times.
Classic movie. Tells quite a story about America. I didnt see it until I was older. I was too young when it came out. But it really struck me when I did see it.
Best movie I have ever seen. Almost 65 years old. Say no more.
Such a touchable movie and song,too!!❤❤
A masterpiece.
I just remembered as a child looking at the glorious sun rays pouring through the leaves of a tree. Birds flying everywhere in that same tree. And in the background listening to this song!!!!! It is simply amazing back in 1975!!!!!!!
one of the best movies of all time. i have seen it many times and it still touches my heart. wish i could go back to 70,s . love looking at the cars and everything else from this time
Great song and movie!
The movie was simple greatness. No other like it.
Great movie! Great song to by Harry Nillsson , it fits well with the movie:
This is easily one of the most sad movies I've ever experienced.
A film you need to see before you die.Its a masterpiece in cinematography. 😊❤
For a film directed by a British person, Midnight Cowboy has more Americana going for it than most films ever produced in my opinion. Great writing and acting. I saw this X Rated film (I think the first ever) when it came out in the theatres. One of the best movies of all time in my opinion. I'm also a Harry Nilsson fan, have lots of his records.
When this song came out I was 12 years old. I loved singing along to songs on the radio and this one was like my "Theme Song". Think about it when your 12 you're not a teen yet but you're not a cute little boy either. I felt like I didn't belong in either crowd but I really wanted to grow up into a teen. So many pretty girls that didn't notice me, so many cool things to do but I wasn't invited. This song really hit home and helped me through that time. Still makes me smile.
I still use the term "Im walking here!" Great movie and great song!
Loved this film.
Loved the song.
Love Jon Voight.
Hoffman great actor, weird bloke.
and jon isn't ?? 😊
Dustin Hoffman's shouting at the cab wasn't acting and wasn't in the script. The street had been cordoned off to film the scene but the taxi barreled through the set. When he tried to plow past the actors, what you see is his nearly hitting them. Hoffman's furious response "we're walking here!" was genuine.
apparently it was scripted, the Collector's Edition DVD has interviews that state as much!
I wonder if there is any reference to Back to the Future Part II, where Marty Jr crosses the road and says something similar?!
This is false.
@@mrwong8584how do you know
ive got 49 years old, when i listen for first time this songs in intro of The Midnight Cowboy, chills me all mi skin, so sad and poetical. the lyric here its precious, one of the most beatiful songs ever. Harry Nilson have a voice of an angel
One of the best songs ever ! 🤩
Nice idea to have the most iconic line of the film right up front! Also great song by Harry Nilsson!
and Fred Neil.
A truly great film!
Absolutely A Masterpiece !!!
**DAMN!! WHEN I FIRST SAW THIS FILM IT WAS IN THE 70's, I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS EXCELLENT FILM, ALONE WITH A JOINT. EXCELLENT MEMORIES!!**
You were alone in a theater smoking a joint... in the 70's?
You sure about that?
People got arrested back then for that... 30 days.
A true cinematic masterpiece.
One of my favorite songs Harry Nielson knocked it out the ballpark
At 0:40 - this was when the MONY Building's degree sign (on the third lamp bank) took up 14 bulbs in a 6 x 5 grid. That lighting arrangement dated to about 1960-61. And yes, this was the display that entranced Tommy James to co-write "Mony Mony" (which was a hit for him and his group, The Shondells, when this was being filmed).
Notice, out of 131 bulbs on the 56th Street side (facing south), two are missing, thus only 129 are in place. (And on the Broadway side, facing east, 128 of 130 bulbs are present.)
In 1972-73, the top frontage would be radically altered with the then-current MONY logo, and the degree sign changed to 12 bulbs in a 5 x 5 grid.
Only film ever to win an Academy award ( Oscar ) for Best Picture that is rated X / R.
I first watched this movie as a teenager probably in the late '70s or very early '80s. I remember telling my dad somethinbg like "it's such a realistic depiction of NYC!". (I grew up in rural Ohio) My dad replied "well, it's A depiction of NYC!". As usual, he was right. As a young adult, I loved NYC. Of colurse, Nilsson's song is incredible.
I arrived in NYC from Joburg South Africa, it blew my mind away, rough, tough dirty, tis was ‘85 I was 23, I immediately fell in love with the place, hustling and bustling, felt like I had come home.
@@gavinbolton-ou6tv As a suburban middle class white boy, going to NYC was life-changing. Visiting the Bronx and Yankee Stadium in the late 70s and stepping outside from a bus onto a concrete jungle blew me away. 20 years later walking up the stairs from a lower Village subway stop and being slapped with such a visceral bolt of energy that exuded from the place. Walking the streets feeling more relaxed than any place I'd ever been. Loved it all.
Having spent quite a bit of time in and around NYC, I respectfully disagree with your dad - and commend you - for grasping the brilliance of this picture in capturing - yes - a realistic depiction of the city in laying bare its grimy soul.
Everybody's talkin' at me
I don't hear a word they're sayin'
Only the echoes of my mind
People stoppin', starin'
I can't see their faces
Only the shadows of their eyes
I'm goin' where the sun keeps shinin'
Through the pourin' rain
Goin' where the weather suits my clothes
Bankin' off of the northeast winds
Sailin' on summer breeze
And skippin' over the ocean like a stone
I'm goin' where the sun keeps shinin'
Through the pourin' rain
Goin' where the weather suits my clothes
Bankin' off of the northeast winds
Sailin' on summer breeze
And skippin' over the ocean like a stone
Everybody's talkin' at me
Gracias por compartir la letra de la canción.😊. Es muy bueno saber el contenido y ver la película lo hace mucho mejor y más interesante.
a very sad and truthful movie ....
I've always liked this song it turned up on my TH-cam feed just at the right time as I was feeling kinda grumpy and a little bit angry all better now thanks to this song 🎵
Hey ! I'm walkin here! 😊
Still the greatest soundtrack and the best song of my life 👏👏👏
Iconic Movie, Iconic Music!
There are tons of iconic movies out there, but this is my absolute favorite one since decades.
TWO HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS AND RIGHTLY SO
Classic movie 60´s!
I love movies that picture gritty stories that some people find themselves in. Stories that picture Life and some of the crazy dilemmas people get into.
Life is not always Sunshine and roses, even though we're always chasing after just that.
But they muddle through somehow. 🍃
Film d'altri tempi.
Non se ne fanno più di film così belli.
So much talent in the world of this time, what the feck happened .?
"Progressive Liberalism" happened
Just love that song. Great movie.
Fantastic movie, definitely in my top 10
A classic film with a fantastic john Barry score... beautiful movie .. sad they don't make them like that anymore.
Great movie, Great song.❤
Absolute gem forever..soundtrack n' movie.classic...wow
A brilliantly sad film !
Esse filme é épico. Roteiro impecável, atuação dos atores idem. Tema musical maravilhoso. Dá vontade de rever esse belo trabalho.
That NYC is gone forever - I'm glad I knew it
One of the best movies ever could watch it every week, apart from that John Voit is just gorgeous
This film was way better than I thought it was going to be.
How I have loved this film !
70's decade ...wonderful decade for American cinema 🎥 ❤❤❤
Great song and movie.
Once we were young
Great movie. Great soundtrack
One of my favorite movies. ❤
Probably one of the best movies ever. Also the most depressing. Started to haunt me when the starting titles scene was playing!
I love it one of favorite loved the series my favourite BTW I'm 53 but you can't beat acting years ago ❤❤❤❤
Thank You.
I gotta see this movie. I remembered watching the trailer when I was little.
It is well worth watching. I hope you make time to see it.
This is truly a beautiful song ❤❤❤
Great film,great song.Thank you.
.............a TIMELESS CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Way ahead of it's time. Great lead performances.
Amazing song,and I love Dustin Hoffman ,great actor
Tootsie,Kramer versus Kramer,The Graduate
That my favourite movies of him,and I love era of this movie
One of the finest films ever made. I queued around the block when it came out.
Such a pity Voigt lost his mind.
Voight has not lost his mind. He is very knowledgable and grounded. He is a compassionate thinker, not a knee-jerk lemming.
😅😅😅😅@@paulascott5701
My favorite movie of all time-wow
Wonderful movie best actors good music but so sad
Great acting great song
Must watch this one again .
That's gorgeous