Capote

While Capote is a good film, it hasn’t closed the book on the subject, even though the performances are undeniably great.

"...Mark Pellegrino. When news broke of two competing Truman Capote biopics, Capote and the locally shot Have You Heard?,..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ebs Burnough Plays The Capote Tapes

aGLIFF opening night film finds new sides to the scathing wit

"...Ebs Burnough: for his new cinematic portrait of Truman Capote, the White House Deputy Social Secretary-turned-filmmaker wanted all the..."

Aug. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Capote Tapes

A literary life of oblivious self-destruction

"...The fabled photo of Truman Capote staring out from the back cover of his first..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

AGLIFF Presses Play on The Capote Tapes

LGBTQIA+ film festival announces online lineup for 2020

"...The Capote Tapes D: Ebs Burnough Texas Premiere Truman Capote was..."

July 8, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Infamous

It's another Truman Capote picture about how the author wrote In Cold Blood – and it stands solidly on its own merits.

"...The last couple of years have bestowed two Truman Capote pictures on the moviegoing public, and not only that,..."

Oct. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Double Life

Director Douglas McGrath on the other critically acclaimed Truman Capote biopic, 'Infamous'

"...Infamous faces. It follows the success of another Truman Capote biopic covering much of the same period of the..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Screens Feature by Liz Welch Tirrell

The Grass Harp

"...Baker and Roddy McDowall. The memory fiction of Truman Capote often tells the story of a sensitive adolescent growing..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Painter and the Thief

Intriguing tale of crime and redemption

"...same sneaking suspicions that permeate any discussion about Truman Capote's relationship with Perry Smith, the "sensitive killer" figure in..."

May 22, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Tru Artistry

With Jay Presson Allen's Tru, performer Jaston Williams takes a vacation from the little town of Tuna, Texas, with which he is so closely identified, to portray celebrated writer Truman Capote, and in the process reminds us what an actor of range and skill he is.

"...must portray the celebrated writer and notorious celebrity Truman Capote. It is a daunting role by any measure. Not..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Tru

The fascinating character of Truman Capote drives this thoughtful evening of theatre

"...Truman Capote occupies a particular spot in the American imagination. The..."

Jan. 25, 2013 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Top 10 Festival Films of 2020 You Haven't Seen Yet

The best of the fests from Austin and beyond

"...world, this is definitely on distributor's radar. 5) The Capote Tapes..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"..."Philip Seymour Hoffman's precise, uncanny performance as Capote doesn't imitate the author so much as channel him,..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Column

Maybe It's Just Because of Hoffman's Performance?

"...clever lines: "Philip Seymour Hoffman's precise, uncanny performance as Capote doesn't imitate the author so much as channel him,..."

Nov. 1, 2005 Postmarks

In Person George Plimpton at UT

"...of his reading from his latest oral biography, Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Books Feature

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation

The titans of literature and their complex bond

"...my writing said I couldn’t write, shouldn’t write,” Truman Capote confesses about his early, pre-Breakfast at Tiffany’s days. “But..."

June 18, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

TIFF Notes

What I took away from the Toronto International Film Festival

"...portraits in Lonesome Cowboys. To be released this fall. Capote..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Film News

Every Word Is True: Austin lands a Killer production; plus, Joe Conway 'Rocks,' Rodriguez wraps, and more

"...After earlier leanings toward our western neighbor, the Truman Capote biopic Every Word Is True is set to shoot..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Top 10 Festival Films of 2021 You Haven't Seen Yet

From retro horror to COVID survival, the best of the fests

"...in Murder Bury Win," Oct. 22, 2020.) 5) The Capote Tapes: Of course a documentary about the Breakfast at..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

After a Fashion

Truman and Michael sittin' in a tree …

"...sunglasses, realizing that I had achieved one of Truman Capote's looks without even thinking about it. I wore my..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Devil's in the Details

Andrew Bujalksi and Cinema Club screen an overlooked John Huston gem

"...Devil's story, co-written by Huston with an ailing Truman Capote (who, as the story goes, literally wrote the day's..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Mist

There's "something in the mist," and it's not only the beasts that bite but also the dark things that reside within.

"...Billy (Gamble); checkout manager Ollie (Jones, who played Truman Capote in the Capote film that didn't star Philip Seymour..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Books on Film

Tower director on punk and Capote

"...Influential book: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote really intrigues me because I'm both drawn in and..."

June 17, 2016 Screens Feature

What Is This Miracle Called Movie Music?

Making movie-music magic 'Infamous'

"...Douglas McGrath was making a biopic of writer Truman Capote and the backstory behind the writing of his breakthrough..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Screens Feature by Mark Rubin

No Limits

Austin at the Toronto International Film Festival

"...in Toronto include the screening of the other Truman Capote film Infamous, which filmed in Austin last year. Equally..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Riding the Range

The year in film, 2005

"...Capote..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Screens Feature

The Movies That Matter

An interview with Killer Films producer Christine Vachon

"...of Every Word Is True, a movie about Truman Capote and the period during which he wrote In Cold..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Exhibitionism

"...That's the journey Truman Capote makes in this tender remembrance. He returns to his..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Arts Review

Tom and Jerry

Your favorite cat and mouse duo are back and in NYC

"...The Snagglepuss Chronicles, reinventing the pink feline as Truman Capote. But the animals that built Hanna-Barbera, troublemaking cat Tom..."

March 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

We Have an Issue: The News Is Always Breaking

It’s our Back to School issue... but what does “Back to School” even mean in pandemic time?

"...with Ebs Burnough, director of opening night film The Capote Tapes...."

Aug. 7, 2020 Column by Kimberley Jones

True Story

A writer meets the murderer who stole his identity

"...something of an obfuscation, and unlike films such as Capote and Infamous, there’s not enough drama about the compulsive..."

April 17, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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