SALE: |
|
List Price: |
|
You Save: | $11 (73% Off) |
Unavailable:
Sold Out
Brand New
|
DVD Details
- Bonus Documentaries
- Commentary
- Subtitles in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean & Thai
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 21, 2006
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins, Jr. & Chris Cooper | |
Performer: | Bob Balaban, Bruce Greenwood, Amy Ryan, Mark Pellegrino & Dan Futterman | |
Directed by | Bennett Miller | |
Produced by | Michael Ohoven, William Vince, Caroline Baron & Dana Kimmell |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2005 -
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Entertainment Reviews:
Ms. Keener's quiet austerity provides a counterbalance to Mr. Hoffman's brilliance.
Wall Street Journal
It's a bravura one-man-show that feels somehow oddly empty, as if the void that existed in Capote himself is made manifest on the screen. The film does, however, pose some interesting questions about whether art is above morality. It's a moot question.
Full Review
The Tyee (British Columbia)
Capote is about the snake. Perfecting his scenes play like therapy sessions, with a homoerotic undercurrent, and they go to the core of journalism's dark art.
Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
3.5 stars out of 4 -- Catherine Keener is remarkably subtle and soulful as Capote's friend and helpmeet Harper Lee.
Premiere
Capote is a cool and polished hall of mirrors reflecting the ways in which Truman Capote came to write (and be written by) In Cold Blood.
Village Voice
5 stars out of 5 -- [T]he movie steers its own delicate course through the ethical minefields of 'faction' with consummate skill....It's Hoffman's film -- a tour de force...
Uncut
Rating: 2/5 --
The film burdensomely lugs around its single, grand thematic idea (namely how a writer is in lure to, but ultimately exploits, their real-life inspiration or subject matter).
Full Review
Patrick Nabarro
Description by OLDIES.com:
Famed author Truman Capote befriends two murderers while researching his celebrated book, "In Cold Blood" - and finds himself changed to the core. Philips Seymour Hoffman delivers an Academy Award-winning performance as Truman Capote in one of the best films of 2005.
Product Description:
Bennett Miller's CAPOTE is a finely crafted biopic that recounts a historic chapter in American history and, in the process, captures the unraveling of a truly gifted mind. Starring an extraordinary Philip Seymour Hoffman as the legendary Truman Capote, the film concentrates on the seven-year period during which Capote wrote his groundbreaking nonfiction novel, IN COLD BLOOD. One morning in 1959, Capote learned of a horrific family killing in Holcomb, Kansas. With the intention of writing an article for the New Yorker, he traveled to the Midwest with his good friend Nell Harper Lee (Catherine Keener), who was about to publish her own masterwork, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Somehow, the soft-spoken, eccentric writer managed to earn the trust of local authorities--most notably, reserved K.B.I. agent Alvin Dewey (Chris Cooper). But when the two killers were caught and returned to Kansas to await trial, Capote began to form an intense emotional bond with one of them, Perry Smith (Clifton Collins, Jr.). The pressure of this connection threatened to push an already fragile Capote into the darkest recesses of himself. His only hope was to finish the book that he was convinced would shock the nation and change the course of writing forever.
Hoffman's tender portrayal of the writer is a remarkable achievement. He slips into the skin of Capote flawlessly, allowing viewers to experience Capote's inner turmoil for themselves. Keener and Cooper once again deliver compassionate performances. But it is Miller's overall vision, based on a script by Dan Futterman and beautifully realized by his technical collaborators (especially director of photography Adam Kimmel and production designer Jess Gonchor), that makes CAPOTE an Oscar-worthy production.
Hoffman's tender portrayal of the writer is a remarkable achievement. He slips into the skin of Capote flawlessly, allowing viewers to experience Capote's inner turmoil for themselves. Keener and Cooper once again deliver compassionate performances. But it is Miller's overall vision, based on a script by Dan Futterman and beautifully realized by his technical collaborators (especially director of photography Adam Kimmel and production designer Jess Gonchor), that makes CAPOTE an Oscar-worthy production.
Keywords:
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 117,833
- UPC: 043396126480
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item