Jon Voight to Attend 2009 Florida Film Festival
Q-and-A Session Will Follow Screening of Midnight Cowboy
Mar 17, 2009
The 18th Annual Florida Film Festival, presented by Enzian Theater, recently announced “An Evening With Jon Voight” will close the 10-day festival, held March 27 through April 5 this year in the Orlando, Florida, area. Voight’s appearance and question-and-answer session on April 5 will be the concluding segment of the Festival’s Forbidden Films Retro Showcase, which also includes screenings of Fatal Attraction, Crimes of Passion, and La Dolce Vita.
About Midnight Cowboy
Voight stars as Joe Buck, a handsome, but naïve, stud from a small town in Texas who moves to New York City hoping to make lots of money working on the street. He befriends a short, crippled man (Dustin Hoffman) who makes his living as a petty thief. These two losers form an unlikely bond that benefits them both.
Originally released with an X-rating (and later reclassified as an R), the film went on to be the only such film to win Academy Awards for Best Director (John Schlesinger), Best Picture (Jerome Hellman), and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Waldo Salt).
Jon Voight Filmography
With a variety of honors and awards, and more than 70 on-screen acting credits and 100 on-screen appearances as himself, Voight has been a fixture in the film and television industry for five decades. The following list represents a partial filmography of Voight’s most notable roles since Midnight Cowboy in 1969.
- 24 (2008, 2009 TV) Jonas Hodges
- National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) Patrick Gates
- Transformers (2007) Defense Secretary John Keller
- Glory Road (2006) Adolph Rupp
- Pope John Paul II (2005, TV) Pope John Paul II/Karol Wojtyla
- National Treasure (2004) Patrick Gates
- Holes (2003) Marion Sevillo/Mr. Sir
- Ali (2001) Howard Cosell
- Zoolander (2001) Larry Zoolander
- Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) Lord Richard Croft
- Enemy of the State (1998) Reynolds
- The Rainmaker (1997) Leo F. Drummond
- Mission Impossible (1996) Jim Phelps
- Return to Lonesome Dove (1993, TV) Capt. Woodrow F. Call
- Table for Five (1983) J.P. Tannen
- Coming Home (1978) Luke Martin (Voight won a Best Actor Academy Award for his role in this film)
- The Odessa File (1974) Peter Miller
- Conrack (1974) Pat Conroy
- Deliverance (1972) Ed
- Catch-22 (1970) 1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
- A male prostitute and his friend learn to survive on the harsh streets of New York City.
- Starring Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Barnard Hughes
- Director: John Schlesinger
- Run Time: 113 minutes
- Rating: R
- Additional Information: Celebrating its 40th Anniversary, Midnight Cowboy is the Closing Night Retro selection at the Florida Film Festival.
For more information about the 2009 Florida Film Festival, read 2009 Florida Film Fest Opens With Food Theme. For ticket information and individual show times, visit the official Florida Film Festival website.
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