The Truman Show

Life is a 'round-the-clock “reality” TV program in this prescient film, and Truman Burbank (Carrey) is its unwitting subject/hero/leading man.

"...Noah Emmerich, Natascha Mcelhone and Holland Taylor. Is The Truman Show really the subversive film that all the advance..."

June 5, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Truman

Spanish film deals with serious issues in subtle ways

"...two lifelong friends in the 2015 Spanish-Argentine award-winning film Truman speaks a thousand words. It’s the unspoken language of..."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation

The titans of literature and their complex bond

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

June 18, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ebs Burnough Plays The Capote Tapes

aGLIFF opening night film finds new sides to the scathing wit

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

Aug. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Scanlines

The Truman Show

"...Jim Carrey in The Truman Show..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Screens Feature

The Painter and the Thief

Intriguing tale of crime and redemption

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

May 22, 2020 Movie Review 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.

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

Oct. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bruce Almighty

"...while Carrey achieved that balance quite wonderfully in The Truman Show, Bruce Almighty doesn't so much straddle the fence..."

May 23, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Armageddon

"...to be a street-corner Godzilla vendor), NASA director Dan Truman (a slimmed-down Thornton) hires the world's best deep-core oil..."

July 3, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Grass Harp

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

Nov. 15, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election

"...The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Electionby Zachary Karabell..."

May 12, 2000 Books Review by Bruce McCandless

Double Life

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

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

Oct. 20, 2006 Screens Feature by Liz Welch Tirrell

Norman Normal Saves the World

With Norman Normal Saves the World, writer and solo performer Rob Nash creates a breakout vehicle for the sinus-clearing, "I could kill you right now" über-geek of Nash's Holy Cross Sucks!, and its absurd hilarity, along with Nash's usual clarity in characterization, chameleon comic abilities, and ever-sharp wit, make this Holy Cross installment a fine summer blockbuster of its own.

"...It sounds simple enough: Norman Normal's cousin Truman, detested rival and flatulent countergeek to Norman's own sinus-clearing,..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

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.

"...Williams must portray the celebrated writer and notorious celebrity Truman Capote. It is a daunting role by any measure...."

Sept. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

8:15am, the moment Hiroshima was bombed, comes around every morning: It is something we live with

"...by convincing our enemy of our newfound might. President Truman rejected that proposal. What most Americans "know" is that..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Capote

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

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

Oct. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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"...the staggering cognoscenti; when someone hails the arrival of Truman Capote one night, Shane's reaction is a puzzled, “Truman..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Man Called Otto

Tom Hanks' "grumpy old man" phase stumbles with this discordant comedy about death

"...Starring: Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Rachel Keller, Truman Hanks, Juanita Jennings, Cameron Britton, Mack Bayda and Peter..."

Jan. 6, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

After a Fashion

Truman and Michael sittin' in a tree …

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

Feb. 3, 2012 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Page Two: Workingman's Blues

The real history of labor and union organizing is ignored and largely unknown

"...Taft-Hartley Labor Act, curbing strikes, was vetoed by President Truman. Congress overrode the veto...."

Dec. 26, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Ziro the... Whut?

George Lucas' new alien from planet WTF.

"...laden slug which Lucas insisted should sound like ... Truman Capote...."

Aug. 12, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

The Movies That Matter

An interview with Killer Films producer Christine Vachon

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

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hail to the Chiefs

By popular demand, the boys of 'The Dead Presidents' Club' are back in town

"...The Dead Presidents' Club: Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman, and Calvin Coolidge, who share a heavenly holding pen..."

July 16, 2004 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Dream on, Dream Team

Democrats Fail to Convince Texas

"...Dewey Defeats Truman..."

Nov. 8, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

Short Cuts

"...Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line Peter Weir, The Truman Show..."

March 19, 1999 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...Jim Carrey's provocative meditation on media totalitarianism in The Truman Show, Robert Redford's intelligent reworking of romantic pulp fiction..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Joe Lansdale

The Hardest Working Unknown Author?

"...where he single-handedly (along with friend and artist Tim Truman, that is) resurrected the character of Jonah Hex, a..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Music Reviews

"...TRUMAN'S WATER..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Music Review

Day Trips: Buffalo Soldiers Memorial, San Angelo

Black enlisted soldiers get their own memorial this summer

"...of Honor, including five from Fort Concho. President Harry Truman desegregated the armed services in 1948...."

Sept. 22, 2023 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Capote Tapes

A literary life of oblivious self-destruction

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

Sept. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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