Brand New Midnight Cowboy (Criterion Collection)

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 Digital 5.1, 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. Two-disc set.