Cinema 24/7
John Schlesinger's 1969 Oscar-winner relates a touching and disturbing tale of the strange friendship between Joe Buck (Jon Voight), a handsome uneducated naive Texan, who under the influence of radio and TV commercials fancies himself a stud, and Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), a sickly and crippled drifter in the Times Square area.
John Waters became a cult figure in the early 1970s, when he began making films of “dubious taste,” or to use his own words, “exploitation films for the art-house.” The greatest contribution of Waters to American cinema, and to popular culture in general, is his deconstruction of the concept of taste. In the process, he […]
