(Richard Brooks, US 1967, 134 min.)

True Crime. In early 1960, novelist Truman Capote traveled to rural Kansas to write an article about the as-yet-unsolved murders of the Clutter family. Six years later, Capote delivered much more: a complex and controversial novel-length examination of a savage crime and its brutal punishment that is now widely considered to be a true-crime masterpiece. Thanks in large part to Conrad Hall’s striking black and white cinematography and a shattering performance from Robert Blake, Brooks’s stark adaptation captures much of the novel’s complexity and the surprising empathy Capote managed to summon for the killers.

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