Midnight Cowboy: Imported Directors, Imported Styles

Tim loves a good chance to slag the AFI for choosing not actually American movies but we have a bit of nuance on that theme this episode. Tim looks at John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy as a prime example of a non-American director bringing some foreign style to American cinema. Consideration of two directors with highly distinct, and maybe even iconoclastic, styles follows with F.W. Murnau (Tabu) and Sergio Leone (Once Upon a Time in America).