Capote DVD

Advantages: A dazzling, career-defining performance from Philip Seymour Hoffman
Disadvantages: Though absorbing, it feels long

...farmhouse. New York writer Truman Capote saw opportunity in their tragedy and determined to write the first "non-fiction novel" based on the events. Travelling to Kansas with his childhood companion Nell Harper Lee he insinuated himself into the lives of the locals and more particularly the killers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock. Then he set about writing the book he felt would be his masterpiece. He became close to Smith and even arranged legal ...
...Seymour Hoffman into the diminutive Capote with aplomb. He uses simple examples of forced perspective, shooting the actor from above and making sure he is either in a single shot or sitting down so he doesn't tower over his co-stars. He gives his actors plenty of room to create their own versions of the characters, while retaining a semblance of veracity with their real-life counterparts. The film is set firmly in the historical context of the late ... Read review

Advantages: Hoffman's performance, engrossing
Disadvantages: None

...Breakfast At Tiffany's writer Truman Capote to the town to get a story for New Yorker magazine. But after the capture of the murderers it becomes more than mere column inches. Capote is inspired to turn the event into a novel. Through extensive interviews with the killers he constructs one of America's best-known books - In Cold Blood. You have heard very little about this film in recent weeks. But Philip Seymour Hoffman has now heightened its profile ...
...didn't know anything about Truman Capote before hand and had never read In Cold Blood. But let me just say this is a film that doesn't require you to be a literary fan to enjoy it. For me Capote is an excellent film that probably deserved more recognition, it's certainly better than Crash. The film is a fascinating character study of a man who comes across as egotistical, self important but incredibly dry in his take on the world. Capote was a homosexual ... Read review

Advantages: Intense, thought-provoking, incredible performances etc
Disadvantages: It completely drains you emotionally

...to notice a copy of Capote lying under a pile of forgotten papers and books. One night, while my dad was fussing around in the kitchen and my mother and I had watched as many interior design shows as we could stomach, we decided to give it a go. Two hours later, I emerged shattered, beaten and emotionally drained. Capote - the story ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Capote is the biographical tale of Truman Capote, a prominent writer in the 50's for The New Yorker, ...
...write To Kill a Mockingbird) Capote took the decision to pursue the story from a unique angle. Thus followed extensive interviews with the prisoners, in particular Perry Smith with whom he struck up a complicated relationship. The film explores the conflict of vacilating between writer and interviewer and confident, trusted companion and even friend. Some, including Capote's long-term partner Jack Dunphy, also a writer, even speculated as to how ... Read review

Advantages: Superb acting, fascinating and thought-provoking subject
Disadvantages: Not for the faint-hearted

...if I wanted to see Capote at the cinema, I wasn't particularly interested - until she mentioned that Capote had written a true story, called In Cold Blood, about two killers who had murdered a Kansas family. Doing a little more research, I found out that Capote had befriended the two killers with the aim of writing a book about them, but that he was also the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's, the story of a social butterfly, which could not be more ...
...based on a book about Capote by Gerald Clarke, with the fantastic screenplay by Dan Futterman. The story Truman Capote, high on the success of Breakfast at Tiffany's, reads about the shooting of a family of four in the Kansas countryside and decides that he wants to base his book on the story. With Nelle Harper Lee (the author of To Kill a Mockingbird) in toe, he travels to Kansas with the aim of interviewing the police in charge of the investigation ... Read review

Advantages: phillip seymour hoffmans performance
Disadvantages: pathetic directing, unconvincing story,a complete disappointment

Directed by Bennett Miller, Capote is one of the most talked about films of 2005. Now, after scooping Phillip Seymour Hoffman an Oscar, Being compared to 'Dead Man Walking', and after all the suspenseful waiting, the film is now available to buy on DVD. But will it live up to its expectations? *** The Plot *** Set in 1959, the film tells the story of Truman Capote, a well known writer with the 'New York Times'. Always looking for an intriguing ...
...family of four. Capote and his partner 'Harper Lee' travel to the place of the murder in order to research the story for his next article, but Capote is drawn into the story so much that he aims to write a book about it, rather than just an article. Meeting up with the killers, Capote forms a friendship with one of them - 'Perry' - which many people could never understand. However, his friendship with 'Perry' starts to conflict with his proposed ... Read review