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Capote (2005)

DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

December 1-December 3, 2005

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Rated R, 98 minutes In November, 1959, Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and a favorite figure in what is soon to be known as the Jet Set, reads an article on a back page of the New York Times. It tells of the murders of four members of a well-known farm family—the Clutters—in Holcomb, Kansas. Similar stories appear in newspapers almost every day, but something about this one catches Capote's eye. It presents an opportunity, he believes, to test his long-held theory that, in the hands of the right writer, non-fiction can be as compelling as fiction. What impact have the murders had on that tiny town on the wind-swept plains? With that as his subject—for his purpose, it does not matter if the murderers are ever caught—he convinces The New Yorker magazine to give him an assignment and he sets out for Kansas. Accompanying him is a friend from his Alabama childhood: Harper Lee (Catherine Keener), who within a few months will win a Pulitzer Prize and achieve fame of her own as the author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Though his childlike voice, fey mannerisms, and unconventional clothes arouse initial hostility in a part of the country that still thinks of itself as part of the Old West, Capote quickly wins the trust of the locals, most notably Alvin Dewey, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent who is leading the hunt for the killers. Caught in Las Vegas, the killers are returned to Kansas where they are tried, convicted, and sentenced to die. Capote visits them in jail, but as he gets to know them, he realizes that what he had thought would be a magazine article has actually grown into a book--a book that could rank with the greatest in modern literature. His subject is now as profound as any an American writer has ever tackled. It is nothing less than the collision of two Americas: the safe, protected country the Clutters knew, and the rootless, amoral country inhabited by their killers. Hidden behind Capote's often frivolous façade is a writer of towering ambition, but even he wonders if he can write the book—the great book—he believes destiny has handed him. "Sometimes, when I think how good it could be," he writes a friend, "I can hardly breathe." Location: Browning Cinema This Event in the News.

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  Dates:
  December 1-December 3, 2005

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  7:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.

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  DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

  University of Notre Dame 100 Performing Arts Center South Bend, IN 46556

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  • Event Name: Capote (2005)
    "An Excellent Film!"
    Review posted by: Jean from South Bend, IN, Dec 01, 2005
    

    Truly, this has been one of the most fascinating movies I've seen in quite a while. The seriousness of the crimes echoed throughtout the quiet intensity of the movie. There was no loud score to... Expand

    Truly, this has been one of the most fascinating movies I've seen in quite a while. The seriousness of the crimes echoed throughtout the quiet intensity of the movie. There was no loud score to dramatize the scenes, just the stark dialogue peppered with witty 50s humor. Capote was played brilliantly by Phillip Seymour Hoffman and I wouldn't be suprised if he is in the running for an award for this portrayal. When he alludes to himself and Smith coming from the same type of family except "he went out the back door and I went out the front", it really put into perspective just how much he wasn't so different from a killer. Both wanted fame; and in the end they got it, just in different ways. An excellent, excellent film. Collapse

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