Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation

Name: Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
Genre: Documentary
Released: June 18, 2021
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 70
Cast: David Frost, Dick Cavett, Jim Parsons, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: June 18, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: David Frost, Dick Cavett, Jim Parsons, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Zachary Quinto

Summary: The work, lives, and personal journeys of iconic American artists Truman Capote and Tennesee Williams coalesce with creative combustion in this innovative dual-portrait documentary. Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland distills the loves, fears, and artistic achievements of these masters via an array of archival materials, film clips, andThe work, lives, and personal journeys of iconic American artists Truman Capote and Tennesee Williams coalesce with creative combustion in this innovative dual-portrait documentary. Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland distills the loves, fears, and artistic achievements of these masters via an array of archival materials, film clips, and vibrant voiceover work from Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto as Capote and Williams, respectively. Packed with pearls of wisdoms and eloquent observations, the film celebrates the sometimes tumultuous friendship of the titular writers through the ages, while honoring the way their queer identity informed their world-renowned artistic achievements and relationships with their family, confidants, and — most significantly — each other. [Kino Lorber]… Expand

Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 81 min

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Gary Goldstein

Jun 17, 2021

Vreeland’s documentary serves as both a wonderfully evocative time capsule and a candid tribute to a pair of artistic legends. Read full review

Tara Brady

Apr 30, 2021

An anecdote concerning the “amusing, bright, and always very vinegary” Gore Vidal being caught by a woman police officer breaking into Williams’s New York apartment would, alone, make Truman & Tennessee required viewing. Read full review

Marc Savlov

Jun 17, 2021

Ultimately, Truman & Tennessee is a fascinating but melancholy mash note to the enduring friendship of two genius misfits who, despite constant self doubt barely masked by a raconteur’s seeming insouciance, rocked the literary (and cinematic, despite their mutual distaste for filmic adaptations) world at, in hindsight, just the right time. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jun 8, 2021

Drawling, florid Southern homosexuals who were “out” long before that was done, or safe to do, they make a fascinating, intensely quotable pair of wits in Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation, a documentary built on their relationship with each other, their art, their respective psyches, fame and the world they lived in. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Jun 17, 2021

the connections drawn in Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation are sufficiently instructive that watching and listening to these writers is also, in a way, like hearing one author in stereo. Read full review

Empire Ian Freer

Apr 30, 2021

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Portrait’s staid approach doesn’t always cohere into a gripping yarn but it is detailed, boasts a real feel for the fiction and, in-between the two men’s rampant viciousness, emerges as undeniably poignant. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Jun 18, 2021

It’s a pleasure to spend an hour and a half in the resurrected company of these two intellects, but the experience feels like the lazy alternative to reading biographies about either man, while the iMovie-style editing strategy of slow-fading between layers of old photographs makes them feel like ghosts of a long-forgotten past. Read full review

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Brent_Marchant

Jul 7, 2021

Bringing together the insights and words of two legendary writers in one film is an intriguing approach to the biographical documentary genre, an approach employed cleverly and skillfully in this offering from director Lisa Immordino Vreeland. By combining archive interview footage of theBringing together the insights and words of two legendary writers in one film is an intriguing approach to the biographical documentary genre, an approach employed cleverly and skillfully in this offering from director Lisa Immordino Vreeland. By combining archive interview footage of the two literary icons with voiceover narrations of their writings read by Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto, viewers see a picture emerge not only of these two gifted artists, but also the parallels between their respective backgrounds, the nature of their longstanding friendship and the ways in which their personal lives influenced their work. These discussions are supplemented by numerous clips from film and television adaptations of their novels and plays, including "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Baby Doll," "Night of the Iguana," "The Glass Menagerie," "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "In Cold Blood," to name a few. While this release is not always especially revelatory about either of these well-known individuals, it's nevertheless quite intimate and authentic in their on-screen depiction, especially in the archive interviews conducted by David Frost, Dick Cavett and Tom Brokaw. If nothing else, this film puts an interesting spin on its material and brings its protagonists back to life, even if only for a little while.… Expand

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