In Cold Blood

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still from Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards, US 1961)

still Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards, US 1961)

Eye Filmmuseum seen across the river IJ © Marcus Koppen

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still from The Capote Tapes (Ebs Burnough, US 2019)

still The Capote Tapes (Ebs Burnough, US 2019)

poster In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks, US 1967)

still from In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks, US 1967)

still In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks, US 1967)

still from Capote (Bennett Miller, US 2005)

still Capote (Bennett Miller, US 2005)

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Reconstruction of the scandal caused by writer Truman Capote in his decadent cultural world. Burnough was given access to never-before-heard audio recordings of interviews with Capote’s friends and enemies.

It would become his magnum opus, the masterpiece that would make him a legend. Everyone knew Truman Capote was working on a big project; he called it Answered Prayers. After the publication of bestsellers Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood, he had arrived as an author.

The Capote Tapes

In Breakfast at Tiffany’s (two Oscars), Audrey Hepburn in one of her most famous roles, plays the cunning manipulator Holly Golightly, who charmingly elicits money from her dates.

Truman Capote wrote a novel about his fascination for his neighbour, the extravagant Holly. In turn, director Blake Edwards became captivated by Capote’s story. This resulted in Breakfast at Tiffany's ‘an utterly unbelievable, yet extremely compelling flight of fancy,’ according to the New York Times.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

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In Cold Blood is based on the eponymous book for which author Truman Capote interviewed the murderers of a farmer’s family. Richard Brooks turned the latter into a masterful black & white film with contrast-rich camera work that reconstructs the senseless murder.

In 1959, two ex-cons attacked a farm in Holcomb, Kansas and killed farmer Herbert Clutter, his wife and their two kids. The huge sum of money they thought to steal couldn’t be found and they fled to Mexico. Perry Smith and Dick Hickock are soon viewed as suspects and were ultimately executed in 1965.

Superb biopic of Truman Capote, author of the famous In Cold Blood, for which he interviewed the murderers of a farming family. Philip Seymour Hoffmann is spectacular in his Oscar-winning role as the eccentric writer and charming master manipulator.

In 1959 Truman Capote, a popular writer for The New Yorker, heard about the gruesome, senseless murder of a farming family in Kansas. Capote and his childhood friend Harper Lee smelled a good an article for the paper, and set off for the scene of the crime. Capote dug deeper and deeper into the story and became closely involved with the perpetrators, laying the foundations for his greatest work, In Cold Blood.

In Cold Blood

Richard Brooks / US, 1967 / 134 min.

In Cold Blood is based on the eponymous book for which author Truman Capote interviewed the murderers of a farmer’s family. Richard Brooks turned the latter into a masterful black & white film with contrast-rich camera work that reconstructs the senseless murder.

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The Capote Tapes

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Capote

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