November 2, 2023 - Starting @6pm
As Owen Gleiberman, Variety said ” … As a documentary filmmaker, Nancy Buirski comes at you from a heady, impressionistic angle. For all its tasty anecdotes, and there are lots of them, DESPERATE SOULS is less concerned with production war stories…than with the emotional metaphysics of how a movie about a blinkered hustler and a homeless loser came to embody what Hollywood was becoming… Schlesinger invested these scenes with a passion, sleaze and terror that he ripped out of his own experience…DESPERATE SOULS captures what a disarmingly intimate film MIDNIGHT COWBOY was, but the documentary is also an essay on how the movie acted as a kind of portal: a passage from the old world to the new one.”
