This is the thread in which we anticipate "Capote"

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I can accept two movies less than a year apart which are both about, oh i dunno, a volcano erupting. Or dinosaurs! But two movies about truman capote writing the book "in cold blood"?

Yes, but according to Jack Nicholson, the 2005 film is "CA-POH-TEYY."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Capote 2: affected boogaloo!

Yes, but according to Jack Nicholson, the 2005 film is "CA-POH-TEYY."

er, how is it pronounced, then? CA-POAT? CA-POTTY?

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

"cap hoat"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/images/smilies/Drudge_Siren_Small.gif BOB BALABAN IS IN BOTH!! http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/images/smilies/Drudge_Siren_Small.gif

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

When will some talented queen write and direct a film about the Gore Vidal-Truman Capote verbal slugfests???

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link

kəˈpoʊ.ti

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

BOB BALABAN IS IN BOTH!!

-- chaki (chaki.tim...), September 4th, 2006.

whoa, same character, too?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

he plays a younger version of himself (amazing wig) in this one.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

bob balaban is my dad

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

plz rename your blog that

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

you have a blog again? i keep track. link?

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

same link as before

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link

and slocki your wish is my command

http://fineturkishtobacco.blogspot.com/

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link

maura: oh have you seen 'minor accomplisments' yet
maura: balaban is an exec rpoducer
strongo: oh yeah? then where's my mom's alimony

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

So I saw the trailer for Infamous last night before Science of Sleep and my friends and I were all looking at each other going "WTF." The thread revival of a month ago clears up some mysteries, but still.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 October 2006 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

'infamous' might be better than 'capote', which actually isn't high praise

― gear (gear), Thursday, 5 October 2006 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

We need you to post your thoughts re Science on that thread, Ned!

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 5 October 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I did already!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, this new Capote was the voice of Dobby the house elf in Harry Potter 2.

This bears repeating!

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 5 October 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

five months pass...

So, did anyone here other than me see Infamous? I thought it was quite terrific. Much better than Capote, which left me rather cold. It's a cruel twist of fate that Toby Jones should turn in a performance like that and have it all but ignored because someone else got there first.

The relationship between Capote and Perry Smith made more sense to me in Infamous, as did Smith generally, in fact.

― Alba, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Infamous was more entertaining/involving than Capote. Less self-importantly dour, and yeah, the doomed romance angle worked better. Still a pretty cruddy movie, though. Not a total snooze, but not much more than that.

― Pye Poudre, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

just saw capote two nights ago. i really liked a lot of it. chris cooper makes me happy in anything, to be honest. i loved the colours, the farms, the scenes at chris cooper's house, all of the harper lee scenes.

what really frustrated me was the end. i spent the last 40 minutes or so thinking "this will be great if they don't show the execution." the west wing, of all things, is really great at never ever showing 'important' moments. i.e. the state of the union address is never shown - we see the preparation and the fallout, and while we may see clips of the speech we never actually see the unmediated scene, because what the president says is irrelevant - it's the stuff around it, how we react to it, that we care about. the execution is irrelevant - it is the lead-up and fallout that matter. we know at a point that it is going to happen, and showing it is besides the point. that they felt the need to need to show the execution suggested that it was somehow important, and it really wasn't - the film is not about the killers or the crime or the system. it's about the book and the author, to which the knowledge of the execution matters, not the event.

i was really into the levels of fictionalisation, too - this is a fictionalisation about the process of fictionalisation, with the added fun of having been adapted from a book about the writing of a book!

― derrrick, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 09:14 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

http://nymag.com/guides/fallpreview/2011/movies/moneyball/index2.html

kinda curious for the guy's new one, w/hoffman, pitt & jonah hill. this piece is sorta interesting, you get to hear pitt talking about movies (i always wonder how much + how huge actors watch films)

― sexual union prayerbook slam (schlump), Monday, 22 August 2011 08:41 (twelve years ago) link

this jonah hill pic is too much

http://images.nymag.com/guides/fallpreview/2011/movies/movies110829_jonah_560.jpg

― johnny crunch, Monday, 22 August 2011 14:08 (twelve years ago) link

six years pass...

I've seen this five or six times now--approaching comfort-film status (odd designation, I know). Love the music, Cooper and Keener and Balaban (even though, from what I've read about him, that's not William Shawn), PSH of course.

― clemenza, Saturday, 30 June 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link

two years pass...

Came to post pretty much exactly the same post I put here two years ago. I'm watching Shirley (still not finished), and in the middle of that thought this might be a good point of comparison, so I watched this again. I really love the contrast between the Kansas scenes and Capote holding court back in New York--one of the main things the film's about, really.

― clemenza, Monday, 22 February 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link

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