4. Midnight Cowboy
John Schlesinger’s ode to the decaying urban jungle of 1960s New York made history as the first X-rated Best Picture winner, but there is little here more exposed than Hoffman’s iconic, frightened Ratso Rizzo. Withering away, Hoffman’s Ratso is a slightly older and scrappier Artful Dodger, who, like many of the Times Square walkups around him, is seemingly held together only by dirt and decay. This was the first of many examples of Hoffman’s gritty intensity, which could erroneously be written off as Method shtick. It isn’t. Every choice here – including that apocryphally improvised scene yelling at a car while crossing the street – is necessary and justified. And shows shades of what’s to come in the #3 movie…
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