IN COLD BLOOD (1967)
Truman Capote's masterful 1966 true-crime novelization was miraculously translated to an equally masterful movie in the hands of the uncompromising Richard Brooks. Nominated for four Academy Awards® — Best Director, Original Score, Cinematography and Adapted Screenplay — the film recounts the events surrounding the brutal murder of a family of four in small-town Kansas during a home robbery gone wrong, as well as the subsequent search for and interrogation of the two culprits. It remains one of the go-to docufiction crime movies. To achieve its raw authenticity, IN COLD BLOOD even went so far as refusing to cast distracting big stars for the lead villains (a smart choice as Robert Blake and Scott Wilson are chillingly perfect — and look eerily similar to the men they portray) and shooting whenever possible in the actual locales where the crimes were committed. The film is a tour de force of cinematic storytelling, heightened further by Conrad Hall's stunning black-and-white camerawork and Quincy Jones' jazzy score. DIR/SCR Richard Brooks, from the novel by Truman Capote. U.S., 1967, b&w, 134 min. RATED R
In Memoriam: Quincy Jones (1933–2024)
Run Time: 134 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, February 07, 2025
Genre: Crime drama