Friday, November 11, 2005

more film reviews on BBC ~~

The whole thing is eerie and yet oddly familiar. The brutal slayings on November 15th, 1959 of the Clutter family in a Holcomb, Kansas was one of the first ‘home invasion’ stories that shook America to the core for the sheer brutality of crime. It unsettled the population not just in Holcomb, but everywhere. Of course, the book In Cold Blood written by Truman Capote is about these killings and if we are to trust he film Capote, he got the idea from the press clipping .....A review of the film Capote.

More film reviews can be found at the BBC Collective (see below)
Home page at BBC Collective can be found http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/U1636801,

including Shattered Glass (the Stephen Glass/New Republic story), The Forgotten and more...

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sadi ranson-polizzotti, winter, 2005