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Monday Night Truman Capote and Nelle Harper Lee Film Series
. Please Note --> This is a Past Event!! .

Event Description:
Join St. Helena Public Library every Monday evening at 7 pm for a free film. In November, the library will celebrate the works of a couple of our favorite authors, Truman Capote and Nelle Harper Lee, along with a special film for Thanksgiving. November 9th: Truman Capote's extraordinary nonfiction book about the course of two killers in this world–their lives, their senseless slaughter of an entire family, their executions–was faithfully adapted for the screen in this 1967 film by Richard Brooks. Robert Blake and Scott Wilson are remarkable as the murderers, but what has kept this film special over the decades is Brooks' blunt, clearheaded, and nonsensational approach to the story. The term "semidocumentary" has been applied to Brooks' style on this film, and it's an entirely fair description. The experience of watching this film is naturally unsettling, but the director, as with Capote, leaves final judgments about justice to the beholder. Licensing agreements prohibit us from using the titles of films in promotions. Info, 963-5244.

Directions:
St. Helena Public Library 1492 Library Lane St. Helena, CA 94574

1492 Library Lane
St. Helena, CA 94574