breakfastcowl

Capote

Rewatch w/ commentary by Hoffman and dir. Bennett Miller. Repeatedly heart caught up in my throat by Hoffman talking about difficult days on set, or lack of confidence with the role as a whole, enamored with everyone else in the cast, and the director more than once rejecting this self-deprecating with a "You're so great here" or "you did good, Phil". The moment where Truman is buying baby food in the grocery store and spots the kid in cowboy garb-- kid contorts his face, holds the toy gun awkwardly, tongue hanging out, and Hoffman in mild awe with a breathless "Incredible". It's wild to think when this movie came out I would have been more familiar with Catherine Keener from her mascot groupie character in Death To Smoochy.

yetunde

Capote

This movie was boring, sorry. I didn’t know that much about Capote but upon research he was a very interesting man with an even more interesting story, especially leading up to his death. So why Bennett Miller in 2015 decided to release a film about one of the more uninteresting parts of Capotes life, and make it even more uninteresting is beyond me. The movie felt slow even on 2x speed. 2 stars for PSH. A movie is an ensemble, more than its actor, so he carries this film, but not very far.

BelugaJames

Capote

God I miss PSH

BigDadTyCross

Capote

Second Chance theater hits another home run here. I saw this once in high school and just didn’t give it the attention it deserved. This is an excellent picture with an all time performance from Phil Hoffman who, in my opinion, deserves to be in the conversation with Pacino, DeNiro, Denzel, DDL, etc as one of the all time acting greats. Also where is Bennett Miller? We’re past due on another excellent piece of filmmaking from him.