American History Month

This fall we have two films slated, each of which is a re-telling of historical events from 20th Century American history. ‘Good Night and Good Luck,’ written and directed by George Clooney, with a very strong cast including Clooney, starts us off with a close look into the Guilty by Suspicion era of Joe McCarthy, when certain people in power misused their positions to further their own twisted agenda. Thank goodness that’s all behind us!

Clooney managed to get this film together for an amazingly small $7.5 million and the cast and crew worked for scale. That alone makes the film noteworthy. Oh but there's so much more...
There is a decent interview with Clooney at Cinema Confidential - http://www.cinecon.com/news.php?id=0510142

Fast forward ten or so years to Truman Capote, the author of ‘In Cold Blood,’ a perfect novel for Halloween season, and one I can’t seem to put down. I’m scared. ‘Capote’ stars Philip Seymour Hoffman (Boogie Nights, Big Lebowski etc.), who, according to my mother, got the voice of Truman Capote dead on. Just enough time to finish the book, rent ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ (Capote originally picked Marilyn Monroe to play the role of Holly Golightly but Paramount instead chose Audrey Hepburn - good choice) and try not to feel like I’ve seen some of this on a Seinfeld episode. (was that reference a stretch? Oh well, at least I didn’t mention Vampires!)