Celluloid Nights by Cinema Niche: Midnight Cowboy

Director: John Schlesinger

Cast: Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Barnard Hughes, Ruth White, Jennifer Salt

35 mm print screening

The team behind Cinema Niche will launch a new screenin spring of 2024. The mission of Celluloid Nights is to revive the unrepeatable experience of watching our favorite films on 35mm film, while a younger generation may have this exceptional opportunity for the first time. While cinemas now project digitally, the experience of screening a film on celluloid is quite different. For contemporary directors such as Christopher Nolan or Paul Thomas Anderson, filming is primarily a creative decision that affects how their works will appear on the big screen. Like them, Celluloid Nights celebrates the materiality of film, recognizing the uniqueness and eternal glory of film as a physical medium.

After a year of uncertainty in which he almost decided to leave film behind, Dustin Hoffman (against industry advice) took the role of seedy conman ‘Ratso’ Rizzo in this Oscar-winning film from British director John Schlesinger. Equally remarkable is Jon Voight as would-be Texan gigolo Joe Buck, who arrives in New York believing that women will be falling at his feet but finds himself squatting with his unlikely new friend.

Ticket prize: 3900 HUF