It has been a while since Chlotrudis Hall Of Fame member Philip Seymour Hoffman has appeared on the big screen. That’s soon to change as the much-anticipated film CAPOTE gears up for a fall release. CAPOTE stars not only Hoffman as the author of In Cold Blood), but another early Gertrudis Award winner, Catherine Keener as fellow author Nelle Harper Lee. Sony Pictures Classics will release the film in New York and L.A. on September 30, 2005. Here is their synopsis: “While researching his book In Cold Blood, an account of the murder of a Kansas family, Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman) develops a close relationship with Perry Smith, one of the killers.”
Other Chlotrudis favorites, Bruce Greenwood, Chris Cooper, and Bob Balaban also appear in the film, a rough cut of which screened in Boston recently for a special audience. Chlotrudis member Amanda Weir-Gertzog was there and she reports on CAPOTE here. Sony Pictures Classics will soon be launching a website for CAPOTE, and you can see stills from the film there now.
It’s funny to think that Hoffman and Keener, both Chlotrudis favorites, have never appeared in a film together. Their pairing in CAPOTE should be very special indeed.