When Midnight Cowboy came out in 1969, Miami Herald critic John Huddy heralded its arrival with a string of superlatives: “Staggering, shattering, heartbreaking, hilarious, tragic, raw and absurd.”
Over the years, the ranks of its admirers has only grown, among them documentary filmmaker Nancy Buirski.
“I remember feeling that it was a really radical film,” recalls Buirski, who first saw Midnight Cowboy sometime after its original release. “It felt different from anything I had seen… It was like a gut punch.”
Director Nancy Buirski
Buirski’s documentary Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy, now playing in limited release in New York, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Detroit and other cities, digs into the loam that produced such a bleak yet beautiful flower of a film. Midnight Cowboy hit theaters the same year as Hello, Dolly! and Paint Your Wagon but unlike those celluloid larks, John Schlesinger’s film...
Over the years, the ranks of its admirers has only grown, among them documentary filmmaker Nancy Buirski.
“I remember feeling that it was a really radical film,” recalls Buirski, who first saw Midnight Cowboy sometime after its original release. “It felt different from anything I had seen… It was like a gut punch.”
Director Nancy Buirski
Buirski’s documentary Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy, now playing in limited release in New York, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Detroit and other cities, digs into the loam that produced such a bleak yet beautiful flower of a film. Midnight Cowboy hit theaters the same year as Hello, Dolly! and Paint Your Wagon but unlike those celluloid larks, John Schlesinger’s film...
- 6/30/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
After overseeing one of the most revered films of the year in Nightcrawler, director-slash-screenwriter Dan Gilroy is set to return to scripting duties for his next project, Storming Las Vegas.
In an interview with The Wrap, Gilroy confirmed his involvement in the project, which will be directed by The Equalizer‘s Antoine Fuqua alongside regular producing partner Lorenzo di Bonaventura. Lifting the story from John Huddy’s eponymous, true-crime novel, Storming Las Vegas orbits around an adrenaline junkie known as Jose Vigoa who, upon arriving in Sin City, cooks up a ploy to hit the biggest casinos on the strip as he looks to get away with millions.
The novel’s by-line offers up a better take on the heist thriller, which sums up Vigoa’s adventure quite succinctly.
“Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars,...
In an interview with The Wrap, Gilroy confirmed his involvement in the project, which will be directed by The Equalizer‘s Antoine Fuqua alongside regular producing partner Lorenzo di Bonaventura. Lifting the story from John Huddy’s eponymous, true-crime novel, Storming Las Vegas orbits around an adrenaline junkie known as Jose Vigoa who, upon arriving in Sin City, cooks up a ploy to hit the biggest casinos on the strip as he looks to get away with millions.
The novel’s by-line offers up a better take on the heist thriller, which sums up Vigoa’s adventure quite succinctly.
“Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars,...
- 11/27/2014
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
After spending years as a writer, working on the likes of 2006’s The Fall and The Bourne Legacy, Dan Gilroy has launched himself as a director with the searing Nightcrawler. But for a new job, he’s switching back to just scriptwriting, signing on to adapt John Huddy’s book Storming Las Vegas, which Antoine Fuqua is set to direct.To give it its full, marquee-straining title, Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down The Strip To The Tune Of Five World Class Hotels, Three Armoured Cars, And Millions of Dollars, the book follows the rags-to-riches story of Jose Vigoa, who has been described as a modern-day Robin Hood.Born in Cuba, Vigoa was a Soviet army veteran who arrived in Vegas during the ‘90s, when the casinos were trying to push a cleaner image. He and his gang pulled off a violent, 16-month crime wave...
- 11/26/2014
- EmpireOnline
Everyone loves a good story about a group of people taking a whole bunch of money from a casino, regardless if it's done legally (21, Rain Man) or illegally (the Oceans 11 series). Summit's hoping people care a bit more about the latter, as they've just hired a writer to adapt the true crime novel Storming Las Vegas. John Huddy wrote the novel, first published in 2009, based on the real story of a one Jose Vigoa. Amazon gives us the rundown: On September 20, 1998, Jose Vigoa, a child of Fidel Castro’s revolution, launched what would be the most audacious and ruthless series of high-profile casino and armored car robberies that Las Vegas had ever seen. In a brazen sixteen-month reign of terror, he and his crew would hit the crème de la crème of Vegas...
Read More...
Read More...
- 3/28/2012
- by Peter Hall
- Movies.com
Screenwriter Chuck MacLean has built some serious buzz in Hollywood by penning a string of promising spec scripts. So Summit Entertainment has entrusted the scribe to translate John Huddy's shocking crime tale Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars into a gritty thriller worthy of attached director/producer Antoine Fuqua (Training Day). Based on the real-life exploits of Cuba native Jose Vigoa, Storming Las Vegas follows the headline-snagging crime spree of incredibly crafty crook who pulled off a string of high-profile casino and armored car robberies that terrorized Sin City for 16 months in the late 1990s. THR notes Summit acquired the rights to Huddy's book last summer. And with a street smart figure exploiting his idea of the American Dream through a brazen series of spectacular heists, it's...
- 3/28/2012
- cinemablend.com
Summit's adaptation of John Huddy's Storming Las Vegas is gaining momentum. We first reported in July that Antoine Fuqua was attached to direct the crime thriller, and now THR is reporting that newcomer Chuck MacLean has been hired to pen the script.
The movie will tell the "true-life story of Jose Vigoa, a Cuban native who “uses his quick wits and quicker fists to trade a life of poverty and desperation for one of danger and adventure,” according to the studio. He and his crew went on a 16-month crime spree in Las Vegas during the late 1990s.
This will be the first writing gig for MacLean. He is a graduate of Emerson and more recently of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. He gained a lot of attention after writing some well-received specs, which paved the way for this job. I was interested in seeing this project make...
The movie will tell the "true-life story of Jose Vigoa, a Cuban native who “uses his quick wits and quicker fists to trade a life of poverty and desperation for one of danger and adventure,” according to the studio. He and his crew went on a 16-month crime spree in Las Vegas during the late 1990s.
This will be the first writing gig for MacLean. He is a graduate of Emerson and more recently of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. He gained a lot of attention after writing some well-received specs, which paved the way for this job. I was interested in seeing this project make...
- 3/28/2012
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Antoinue Fuqua is currently in talks to direct Hunter Killer. Variety reports that the Brooklyn's Finest directo may take the helm of the adaptation of George Wallace and Don Keith's novel Firing Point for Relativity Media. Filming is slated to start this winter.
Jamie Moss, John Kolvenbach and Arne Schmidt wrote the script that tells the story of "an untested submarine captain who must work with a Navy Seal team to rescue Russia's president, taken prisoner during a military coup. The two sides team up to stop a rogue Russian general from igniting World War III." The film is being produced by Original Film's Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe along with Relativity CEO Ryan Kavanaugh. Tucker Tooley will serve as exec produce for Relativity.
Fuqua has had a lot of bad luck lately with his projects stalling out. Production on the Eminem boxing movie Southpaw was slated to start in January,...
Jamie Moss, John Kolvenbach and Arne Schmidt wrote the script that tells the story of "an untested submarine captain who must work with a Navy Seal team to rescue Russia's president, taken prisoner during a military coup. The two sides team up to stop a rogue Russian general from igniting World War III." The film is being produced by Original Film's Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe along with Relativity CEO Ryan Kavanaugh. Tucker Tooley will serve as exec produce for Relativity.
Fuqua has had a lot of bad luck lately with his projects stalling out. Production on the Eminem boxing movie Southpaw was slated to start in January,...
- 9/28/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
"Hunter Killer" Gets Director Antoine Fuqua
Antoine Fuqua is in final negotiations to take the helm of Relativity Media’s “Hunter Killer.” Based on the novel “Firing Point” from George Wallace and Don Keith, the story follows an untested submarine captain who must work with a Navy Seal team in order to rescue Russia’s president, taken prisoner during a military coup. The two sides team up to stop a rogue Russian general from igniting World War III.
Three writers have penned the script, they are, Jamie Moss, John Kolvenbach and Arne Schmidt.
Variety reports that Fuqua is one of the most sought-after directors in Hollywood “but his projects keep stalling out.” Dreamworks recently pulled the plug on his Eminem-led boxing film, “Southpaw,” he was supposed to spend the summer shooting Morgan Creek’s Tupac Shakur biopic but that film still hasn’t found its lead, and Fuqua is no longer attached to direct.
Antoine Fuqua is in final negotiations to take the helm of Relativity Media’s “Hunter Killer.” Based on the novel “Firing Point” from George Wallace and Don Keith, the story follows an untested submarine captain who must work with a Navy Seal team in order to rescue Russia’s president, taken prisoner during a military coup. The two sides team up to stop a rogue Russian general from igniting World War III.
Three writers have penned the script, they are, Jamie Moss, John Kolvenbach and Arne Schmidt.
Variety reports that Fuqua is one of the most sought-after directors in Hollywood “but his projects keep stalling out.” Dreamworks recently pulled the plug on his Eminem-led boxing film, “Southpaw,” he was supposed to spend the summer shooting Morgan Creek’s Tupac Shakur biopic but that film still hasn’t found its lead, and Fuqua is no longer attached to direct.
- 9/28/2011
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
Apes will rise this Friday, and you're going to want to be there to see it happen.
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" already has some seriously strong critical buzz going for it, and having seen a preview screening of the movie earlier today I'd say that it's warranted. But if you still aren't sold on the second attempt at a "Planet of the Apes" reboot, Next Movie has five clips to whet your appetite for this weekends lesson on "evolution = revolution."
Check out the rest of today's film news after the jump!
Universal Saves Robert Zemeckis' Imagemovers
Hollywood has proven over the past decade that it is the place for second chances to happen, and Robert Zemeckis' production company Imagemovers just got a big one. Imagemovers, which was behind the flop "Mars Needs Moms," was shut down by Disney in 2010, but now The Hollywood Reporter has...
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" already has some seriously strong critical buzz going for it, and having seen a preview screening of the movie earlier today I'd say that it's warranted. But if you still aren't sold on the second attempt at a "Planet of the Apes" reboot, Next Movie has five clips to whet your appetite for this weekends lesson on "evolution = revolution."
Check out the rest of today's film news after the jump!
Universal Saves Robert Zemeckis' Imagemovers
Hollywood has proven over the past decade that it is the place for second chances to happen, and Robert Zemeckis' production company Imagemovers just got a big one. Imagemovers, which was behind the flop "Mars Needs Moms," was shut down by Disney in 2010, but now The Hollywood Reporter has...
- 8/3/2011
- by Terri Schwartz
- MTV Movies Blog
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.