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After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
In Cold Blood
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Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, A sangre fría, Холоднокровно, In Koelen Bloede, Med kallt blod, Kylmäverisesti, Med koldt blod, A sangue freddo, Kaltblütig, De sang-froid, 冷血, בדם קר, Εν Ψυχρώ, A Sangue Frio, Hidegvérrel, Хладнокръвно, Холоднокровне вбивство, Хладнокровно, Chladnokrevně, در کمال خونسردی, Soğukkanlı, Z zimną krwią, 냉혈한
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New York City, New York
15 Dec 1967
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Romania18+
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15 Dec 1967
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11 Jan 1968
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12 Mar 1968
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14 Mar 1968
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20 Mar 1968
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01 Apr 2021
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08 Mar 2006
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01 Oct 2007
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06 May 2009
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28 Apr 2021
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Brazil
08 Mar 2006
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Denmark
14 Mar 1968
- Theatrical
France
20 Mar 1968
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06 May 2009
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01 Apr 2021
- Digital VOD
28 Apr 2021
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Germany
12 Mar 1968
- Theatrical16
Netherlands
01 Oct 2007
- Physical16 DVD
Romania
15 Dec 1967
- Premiere18+
UK
11 Jan 1968
- Theatrical (Rated X)
USA
14 Dec 1967
- PremiereR New York City, New York
15 Dec 1967
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Some of the best editing and story-telling methods I've ever seen, certainly some of the best performances, one of the most frightening stories about American society, maybe the best example of how to make a disgusting and unlikable criminal into a pitiable human being. We all feel awful for the victims, but it was Perry that broke my heart - just another kid who got cheated by life, raised in circumstances he couldn't control, who nobody cared about. It's him you want to cry for, but it's all the other people just like him, too. Violence breeds violence breeds revenge, and so on and so forth until the end of time.
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I wonder what Truman Capote would think of how much of a fetish the “true crime” genre has become today.
The film adaptation of Capote’s monumental non-fiction novel of the same name, In Cold Blood is a piecemeal portrayal of the events preceding, during, and following the attempted robbery and unplanned murder of the Clutter family by Perry Smith and Dick Hickock in 1959 rural Kansas. As powerful today as it was then, the story is meant to be a sobering look at the very real horrors that very real humans can commit.
There have literally been other movies (Capote) made about this book/movie, so I’m not going to dive too much into its analysis. However, it bears mentioning how…
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"How can anyone know what's inside another person?"
Brutal death-drive cinema. Loses a bit of the immense, cumulative detail of Capote's text but does a good job matching the structure; the ugly, random momentum you have reading it, and makes up for the lost information in its pure formal rhythm. The constant cross-cutting between grit-textured docudrama realism and bursts of intensely subjective memory is basically perfect and nails the procedural elements of how terrifyingly casual and unmotivated the carnage deployed by these boys was on its surface while also developing the vague, periphery material/psychological conditions that might've paved the way for it.
And even more importantly drives home one of the key observations of the book about how when faced…
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In 1967 Richard Brooks brought to the big screen the adaptation of probably Truman Capote's most iconic, emblematic book, in which the author had to sit down and talk to the culprits of the cold-blooded murder of a family of four during an attempted robbery. Decades later the story would be adapted into "Capote" with the brilliant, award-winning performance of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Knowing the story for the aforementioned movie with Hoffman, I was rather intrigued to see how the direct adaptation would turn out. In addition to being able to get a better picture of the case, both our killers acted differently on each film, which made for a fascinating comparison that allowed me as an audience…
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So this, The Graduate, and Bonnie and Clyde were released in the same year? I guess this was when editing was invented.
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Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. -Genesis 9:6
In 1966, Truman Capote wrote In Cold Blood, a "non-fiction novel" that explained in great detail the 1959 quadruple murder of a small family in rural Kansas. Accompanied by Harper Lee, who was a childhood friend of Capote's, the two spent weeks interviewing locals and police officials who were assigned to the murder case, amassing thousands upon thousands of notes that would later be compiled together to form the whole narrative. Through this novel, Capote almost single-handedly invented the true crime literary genre, and took the world by storm with the book's overwhelming success. Even today, the story is unnerving- a deep dive into human depravity and…
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I am someone who dislikes the criticism of movies as regards to their perceived 'ageing', but In Cold Blood raises the opposite side of the argument in my mind.
This is a film where ageing has actually done it a favour. Certainly to me. I always find the late 1960s to be a really fascinating period of cinema, crawling as it was out of the era of Hays restrictions but not quite sure enough of itself to know exactly what it could get away with. Watching films from this era dare to swear or be more sexually suggestive gives them an added impact in my mind.
It's like I see a film made in the 1960s and my mind is…
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I give the producers massive credit for casting a real murder as the lead in this one. Obviously they were going for authenticity. Now, Robert Blake wouldn't actually commit murder until 2001 (at least, as far as we know) so it shows some real foresight for the producers of this film to cast him over 30 years in advance. Now as far as I know, Scott Wilson (who plays his partner in crime) never committed murder but you can't win em' all. O.J. Simpson was still playing college ball, so he wasn't well known enough yet to be cast as Richard Hickock, but would have been a good choice.
In Cold Blood is the true crime story of Perry Smith…
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Richard Brooks’ adaption of Truman Capote’s narrative nonfiction classic In Cold Blood is stunning on several levels. Conrad Hall’s black and white cinematography turns a film about a murder investigation into one of the gnarliest neo-noirs ever made. It makes Perry (Robert Blake) and Dick (Scott Wilson) seem even crazier and sociopathic-er, respectively, than I remember them being in the book. It’s been a long time since I read the book, but this has to be one of the best film adaptations I’ve seen. Even Truman Capote himself gushes about it in an archival interview on the Criterion disc.
The cinematography also highlights the gravitas of the detectives trailing the killers. Alvin Dewey (John Forsythe), the head of the investigation,…
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