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‘Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams were two of the most famous American writers of their time. For more than forty years, these giants of American literature goaded and supported one another in the agonising quest to turn life into art. This is an encounter between the lifelong friends in their own words.’ So begins
Truman and Tennessee, a new must-watch 90-minute documentary directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland that profiles these two literary giants.
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“Welcome to the The DocArena Podcast in association with Film Ireland. My name is Ross Whitaker and every fortnight, I want to dig deeply into the motivations of documentary filmmakers – how do they choose their subject material and what approaches and strategies do they employ to fund, craft and distribute their work…” =
In this inaugural DocArena podcast, Ross talks to Lisa Immordino Vreeland (
Love, Cecil, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel), whose latest film,
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation, brings the two forces together in a unique and fascinating
tête-à-tête, comparing and contrasting their trajectories through dueling voices the writers’ own, culled from archival footage, and the voices of actors Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto (
Truman & Tennessee: a tale of two wounded giants
Documentary portrays the parallel lives of American literary icons
Film Title: Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Genre: Documentary
This year’s second major documentary on Truman Capote covers some of the same ground explored in The Capote Tapes, Ebs Burnough’s fascinating account of Capote’s long-lost final novel. Director Lisa Immordino Vreeland finds revelatory material by placing the author alongside another giant of 20th-century literature, Tennessee Williams.
Using correspondence between the two men, brilliantly voiced by Jim Parsons (as Capote) and Zachary Quinto (as Williams), Vreeland explores a meaningful, rocky friendship and the irresistible intersections between the lives of the writers. Separate interviews with David Frost and Dick Cavett provide an early highlight and an invaluable source. (Contemporary
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