Capote
by Bennett Miller
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Actor: Bronwen Coleman, Catherine Keener, Craig Archibald, Kate Shindle, Philip Seymour HoffmanDirector: Bennett Miller
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); Cantonese (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-21
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Capote
Movie Review: Intriguing and Difficult Character Study
Summary: 4 Stars
Capote is one of the more thought provoking movies I've seen this year, in which viewers are given a long, almost agonizing look into the heart, soul and angst of author/celebrity Truman Capote.
Philip Seymour-Hoffman is fabulous in his portrayal of Truman Capote who sets out to investigate the murder of a family in small town Kansas. Capote's original magazine article grows into a book as the writer is drawn into the horror of the murder and the shaping events in the brutal killers' pasts.
As Capote unravels the truth of the heinous crime the viewer is given glimpses into his own tragedies and the results of those in his life, and his obsessive connection to one of the two men who await execution.
This is not light entertainment. And the subject matter guarantees some gruesome elements which are there. If you love to look into a soul and discover what makes it unique and fragile, you may find that this film is a gem.
Because of my visit to Capote's mind, I intend to watch Infamous and read In Cold Blood.
Summary of Capote
In 1959 Truman Capote a popular writer for The New Yorker learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb Kansas. Inspired by the story material Capote and his partner Harper Lee travel to the town to research for an article. However as Capote digs deeper into the story he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work In Cold Blood. To that end he arranges extensive interviews with the prisoners especially with Perry Smith a quiet and articulate man with a troubled history. As he works on his book Capote feels some compassion for Perry which in part prompts him to help the prisoners to some degree. However that feeling deeply conflicts with his need for closure for his book which only an execution can provide. That conflict and the mixed motives for both interviewer and subject make for a troubling experience that would produce an literary account that would redefine modern non-fiction.System Requirements:Running Time 98 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 043396126480 Manufacturer No: 12648Bolstered by an Oscar?-caliber performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman in the title role, Capote ranked highly among the best films of 2005. Written by actor/screenwriter Dan Futterman and based on selected chapters from the biography by Gerald Clarke, this mercilessly perceptive drama shows how Truman Capote brought about his own self-destruction in the course of writing In Cold Blood, the "nonfiction novel" that was immediately acclaimed as a literary milestone. After learning of brutal killings in rural Holcomb, Kansas, in November 1959, Capote gained the confidence of captured killers Perry Smith (Clifton Collins, Jr.) and Dick Hickock (Mark Pellegrino) in an effort to tell their story, but he ultimately sacrificed his soul in the process of writing his greatest book. Hoffman transcends mere mimicry to create an utterly authentic, psychologically tormented portrait of an insincere artist who was not above lying and manipulation to get what he needed. Bennett Miller's intimate direction focuses on the consequences of Capote's literary ambition, tempered by an equally fine performance by Catherine Keener as Harper Lee, Capote's friend and the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, who served as Capote's quiet voice of conscience. Spanning the seven-year period between the Kansas murders and the publication of In Cold Blood in 1966, Capote reveals the many faces of a writer who grew too close to his subjects, losing his moral compass as they were fitted with a hangman's noose. --Jeff Shannon
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