The Capote Tapes

64%% | Sep 10, 2021 | Documentary

Newly discovered interviews with friends of Truman Capote made by Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton invigorate this fascinating documentary on the author (and socialite) behind Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood, while situating Capote in the 20th-century American literary canon.

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Ebs Burnough
Director
Holly Whiston
Screenplay

Cast

Truman Capote
Self (archive footage)
George Plimpton
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Lauren Bacall
Self (voice) (archive footage)
John Richardson
Self, art historian
Phoebe Pierce
Self, Truman Capote's friend (voice) (archive footage)
Barbara Lawrence
Self, journalist, The New Yorker (voice) (archive footage)

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