Aka the other movie made about how Truman Capote researched for and wrote In Cold Blood and emerged with a classic and an inability to finish another book for the rest of his life. It had the bad luck of being simultaneously produced with and then overshadowed by the movie Capote, for which the late great Philip Seymour Hoffmann got his Oscar. ( Read more... )

Very enjoyable, but not quite what I'd hoped for, by which I mean I wanted to love it and didn't, though that might partly been to having had wrong expectations ( Read more... )

Not dead, just busy hiking through mountains and marathoning Orange is the New Black. However, I did hear the good news about Sense8 getting renewed. I'm glad. It wasn't perfect, but there was a lot to love about it, and room for improvement in the first season is almost a given.

Also: This article makes me wonder, like the author quoted, why no ( Read more... )

A few years ago, when watching the film CAPOTE - which fascinated me - made me read In Cold Blood and Gerald Clarke's biography of Truman Capote (more about those books here. Back then, I noticed that Clarke called Truman Capote's profile of Marlon Brando, written for the New Yorker, in some ways a trial run for In Cold Blood. But lacking ( Read more... )

There seems to be a consensus across rightist on leftist lines re: The Iron Lady, to wit: Meryl Streep great, film mediocre, though the objections to the later come from different angles. For every complaint from the right that the film offers too much Thatcher in dementia now and not enough Thatcher in charge back then and that this is degrading, ( Read more... )

Another film I've recently watched in the cinema was Coco avant Chanel - "Coco before Chanel" - starring Audrey Tautou as Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel. Tautou was great, but the film itself reminded me of the ongoing frustration dodging many a biopic (or film based on a true story, if you like) centred on a woman, as opposed to films portraying a male ( Read more... )

In my review of the film “Capote” I mentioned that one of its many virtues is that it makes you want to read books. Having now read Capote’s In Cold Blood, Gerald Clarke’s biography Capote (on which the majority of the film is based) and Capotes letters, I also think it’s a great illustration on how you distill various textual sources into a new ( Read more... )

We're still getting snowed in here in Munich, thalia_seawood came to visit on Sunday, and I watched the Oscars. Not having seen Brokeback Mountain or Crash yet, I have no feeling one way or the other, but I was glad about the best actress, best supporting actress and best actor awards, as they had all been candidates I had been rooting for. (Oh, and George ( Read more... )