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IN COLD BLOOD
Friday, February 21
8:00
Saturday, February 22
4:40
Monday, February 24
12:30
Thursday, March 6
7:50
Based on The New Yorker’s 1965 true-crime investigative series (later a book) by Truman Capote.
U.S., 1967
Directed by Richard Brooks
With Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart
Approx. 134 min. DCP.
Ex-cons Perry Smith (Robert Blake) and Richard Hickock (Scott Wilson) break into the home of a prosperous Western Kansas farmer, ostensibly to commit burglary — but then systematically slaughter the farmer, his wife, and their two teenage children. Adapted from Truman Capote’s best-selling “non-fiction novel,” its ruthlessly realistic treatment has arguably never been topped, with Conrad Hall’s b&w photography giving a near-documentary feel (the murders were shot in the actual rooms in which they took place) — and with even the intricate parallel editing of the multiple storylines reproducing the book’s pacing.
Presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“Robert Blake and Scott Wilson are superbly mindless and menacing. Director of Photography Conrad Hall’s glimpses of the lonely bleakness of a Western Prairie and the tawdry shine of a Western Main Street are exact and terrible.”
– Brendan Gill, The New Yorker
