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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

8/21/2007

Infamous (2006)

Covers the same ground Capote did a year back, but manages to add in enough new anecdotes to make this more than a reprise.

Toby Jones as Truman Capote looks good and sounds good, Sandra Bullock is surprisingly well-cast as the understated Harper Lee, and there's a lot of fun in the gossipy cameo-laden New York segments (as well as in the more conservative, but still gossipy, Kansas-set dinner parties).

Still. Capote's better. Way better.

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