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Monday Night Truman Capote and Nelle Harper Lee Film Series

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 30th: The toast of New York society after penning Breakfast at Tiffany's, flamboyant writer Truman Capote’s (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in an Oscar-winning role) imagination is captured by the shocking murder of a smalltown Kansas family. Soon he finds himself in a dance with the devil while researching the Clutter family murders for his masterwork, In Cold Blood. This mercilessly perceptive drama shows how Truman Capote brought about his own self-destruction in the course of writing this "nonfiction novel" that was immediately acclaimed as a literary milestone. Hoffman transcends mere mimicry to create an utterly authentic, psychologically tormented portrait of an insincere artist who was not above lying and manipulation to get what he needed. Bennett Miller's intimate direction focuses on the consequences of Capote's literary ambition, tempered by an equally fine performance by Catherine Keener as Harper Lee, Capote's friend and the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, who served as Capote's quiet voice of conscience. Spanning the seven-year period between the Kansas murders and the publication of In Cold Blood in 1966, this film reveals the many faces of a writer who grew too close to his subjects, losing his moral compass as they were fitted with a hangman's noose. Licensing agreements prohibit us from using the titles of films in promotions. Info, 963-5244.

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

1492 Library Lane
St. Helena, CA 94574