Sunday 23 August 2020

Capote (2005 Bennett Miller)

Miller directed Foxcatcher and Moneyball; it's the first screenplay by Dan Futterman (also Foxcatcher), adapted from the biography by Gerald Clarke.

I think we'd seen it before, but when and where is mysterious. Philip Seymour Hoffman won the Oscar.

Capote interviewed the Kansas murderers, begins to empathise with one, despite their awful crime (it turns out the other guy didn't kill anyone), changes literary history in writing a factual novel.

Catherine Keener plays Harper Lee. With Chris Cooper, Clifton Collins Jr., John Warkentin, Bob Balaban. Music Mychael Danna, ph. Adam Kimmel.


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