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Here's a list of links about Midnight Cowboy! I have a lot of 'em! Some of these are reviews. I may not agree with the opinions listed, or other opinions that the author of a review has written.

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this list is still incomplete! thank you for your patience!

TITLE DESCRIPTION
Archive.org film The film on archive.org
Midnight Cowboy, Andy Warhol, Gay Hustlers, and One Lesbian Feminist Andy Warhol's relationship with the film + the process of creating it.
Movie Stills Database Stills and other images from the film.
After 50 Years, “Midnight Cowboy” Stands Alone MC from start to finish. Features words from some involved and Glenn Frankel.
Half a Century Later, the Clothes of Midnight Cowboy Still Speak Volumes Article about Midnight Cowboy's costuming, done by the ICONIC Ann Roth (9 to 5, Angels in America, Mamma Mia!, and she didn't do the costuming for it but she was apparently in Barbie (2023)?)
Lobbycards.net Lobby Cards... duh!
The day an X-rated walk on the dark side called ‘Midnight Cowboy’ won the Oscar for best picture, a new generation came to power in Hollywood An interview w/ Schlesinger. Also features links to clips of the film, including Midnight Cowboy Revisited, which seems to have been made for the 25th anniversary of the film in 1994.
Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969) - Lobby Cards, Posters, Publicity Stills, etc. See left. Stills, etc!
The Maligned Gay Metropolis: On Glenn Frankel’s “Shooting Midnight Cowboy” Queer identities and Midnight Cowboy / Shooting Midnight Cowboy stuff
X-Rated: Inside the Myths and Legends of Midnight Cowboy Overview of Shooting Midnight Cowboy. Features some AMAZING! images from behind the scenes. Discusses homosexuality in film.
Nocny Kowboj stills Yeah I got the brainrot so bad I was searching thru Polish movie still sites. Whatever!
50 Years of Stirring the Pot A history of LGBTQ magazine The Advocate. Begins with its report on Stonewall... and Midnight Cowboy.
John Schlesinger, 77, Director of 'Midnight Cowboy,' Dies NYT article about the death of John Schlesinger.
The making of a classic American film in ‘Shooting Midnight Cowboy’ ANOTHER! Article about SMC.
15 Uncensored Facts About Midnight Cowboy Generally these kind of articles are a bit click-baity but most of these range from accurate to iffy (mostly the one about "I'm Walkin' Here". Schlesinger says it was planned, others don't).
Getty Images inquiry for Midnight Cowboy I hate Getty!! BuT they have some cute pix! CUTE PIX BURDENED BY THE TERRIBLENESS OF GETTY WATERMARKS UHGHGHG!
Dustin Hoffman: Early Photos of an Actor on the Rise Hoffman from stage to screen.
Honesty and Love in “Midnight Cowboy” A queer reading of Midnight Cowboy.
Roger Ebert's 1994 review of Midnight Cowboy
Roger Ebert's 1969 review of Midnight Cowboy
Siskel and Ebert: Blue Chips, Midnight Cowboy, Reality Bites, The Scent of Green Papaya, The Critic Siskel and Ebert video discussion of the film. In which Siskel refers to the film as "one of the movies' most unlikely love stories".
THE MOVIE REVIEWS One of Siskel's very first reviews with the Tribune. Published 1970 (also you have to be sick to think 1970 MASH is better!! Crazy misogynistic film!)
The Making of “Midnight Cowboy,” and the Remaking of Hollywood Midnight Cowboy as a turning point for film history.
Pauline Kael's review of Midnight Cowboy Kael's reviews are largely only available thru a subscription or thru the purchase of book copies. The Letterboxd user NotPaulineKael posts Kael's reviews online.
Screenmusings.org, Midnight Cowboy Screenshots of a wholleeee lotta frames!
Them, 13 Queer Cinematic Cowboys, Ranked From Least to Most Cliché No joke I hate this article and am going to do a write-up on it b/c it's bad. There are a lotta inaccuracies I don't like and I disagree with the placements.
Making Midnight Cowboy Documentary (2004) Comes with the anniversary DVD mentioned in my collection page. There are versions of this on YouTube. This is a rip taken off of my own personal copy.