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his

high-society life in Manhattan
suddenly being spit out of a
train onto the flat, empty plains of
Kansas. "Truman was really out of
and then

his element in Kansas, and I wanted

big landscape to see him
the cinematographer. "With

to create

in," says
a

a

widescreen format, that contrast
be much greater, helping to rein¬

can

force
works

Capote's sense of isolation. It
particularly well compared to

the color and richness of the New
York

that

precede it. Plus, of
course, Super 35 is beautiful for land¬
scapes."
scenes

The
Kimmel
unadorned and

unpretentious. This
is a performance-driven film, and by
making the camera a steady observer,
we

allowed Phil and the other actors

to

be that much

more

subtle. Our

hope in creating such a sparse frame¬
work

was to

This intent
the entire
picture, from photography and
production design to editing and
say,

was

Kimel.

fCSAPralicdocgotmsuaurmnebreftsey;y

'Watch

sensitize the viewer, to

very closely.'
carried through

to

format

also

enabled

position multiple charac¬

sound. When

ters

Miller and I

limited space without resorting to
wider lenses, which would have been

[director] Bennett
discussed one particu¬

larly intense scene, he suggested
thinking of it as a nature documen¬
tary, meaning we shouldn't assume
we'd get a lot of coverage or compli¬
mentary angles."
Capote was shot in Super
35mm 2.35:1, a format that just
seemed right to Kimmel from the
start. He imagined Capote enjoying

a

in the frame in locations that had

departure from the spare visuals he

had in mind. In

one scene,

for exam¬

ple, Capote and his longtime friend
Nelle Harper Lee (Catherine Keener)
interview

one

Opposite:
Celebrated
author and
raconteur

Truman

Capote
(Philip Seymour
Hoffman)

regales

a group
of admirers at a

party in New
York

City. This

page, top:

Capote and his
longtime friend,
Nelle Harper
(Catherine
Keener),
Lee

observe the
court trial of the

Clutter

family's

killers. Bottom:
The accused

murderers,
Richard
Hickock (Mark

Pellegrino, left)
Perry Smith
(Clifton Collins
and

Jr.), react to the

judge's remarks.

of the Clutters' friends

in the

girl's kitchen; most of the scene
plays out in a three-shot, "and even
though we were right up against the

ocurftesy

Phot s

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Cinematographer 67



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