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capote movie

There's a new movie coming out on Truman Capote and his experience in writing the book In Cold Blood. Looks worthwhile. Here's the official website.

Posted by Karin Cox on Septiembre 17, 2005 04:38 PM |

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I'm really looking forward to this, thanks so much for the link. Also, I'm quite taken up in the anticipation of Roman Polanski's completely un-ironic (by the looks of things) take on "Oliver Twist" (already, I'm afraid, getting raked over the coals here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380599/).

Posted by: John | Septiembre 18, 2005 10:21 AM

Hmm yes that's an unhappy reviewer. I looked at the trailer. I'm not sure what I think. I haven't read Dickens since high school and I don't know, that exposure did a good job of turning me off. I've never read Oliver Twist, though. What is it with poor, tricky orphan boys--picaresque, that's the poor-orphan-boy literature class in the Spanish Golden Age. Ideally functions as subtle means of social criticism but if I'm just in the mood for indulgent entertainment, I have trouble getting past the formulaic surface and end up getting bored. that's just me. I have unfair biases against entire genres.

Posted by: Karin | Septiembre 19, 2005 08:17 AM

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