Midnight Cowboy was British director John Schlesinger ’s first movie outside the UK and he went out of his way to mirror New York’s desperate urban decay in the sleazy, broken-down squalor of Buck and ...

We open on “Everbody’s Talkin’” and soon there’s a refrain or two of John Barry’s lilting theme, as Joe Buck washes his hands, literally so, of some violence in Texas and hops out of Houston to try ...