I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Couldn't watch beyond first 30 mins. I was enjoying Toby Jones's portrayal but I've never known a movie to chop and change so much. So many short scenes and changes of setting! Including interviews/talking heads for an unexplained reason all in the same setting. Were they for TV? Seemed they were being named for us not some TV audience. Confusing. And who were these people anyhow? In some cases the names didn't help at all. Must say, all that attempt at "sophistication" gave me the irrits anyhow. Maybe these were the true characters of Capote's society. I also find it hard to fathom the eternal interest in In Cold Blood. Capote did not invent True Crime nor the nonfiction "novel." I'll never know if the movie improved or not.

I am sure when Toby Jones was making Infamous he could smell an Oscar nomination and then found out that the similar themed Capote was released at a similar time and Philip Seymour Hoffman got the Best Actor win for playing Truman Capote.Jones plays the waspish Truman Capote a social climber who ingratiated with high society and the writer of classics such as Breakfast At Tiffany's. He also very much invented the 'non-fiction novel' with In Cold Blood in 1966 which this film is based on. I guess another word for it is 'Faction' a mixture of true events with artistic liberties and subjectivism. Capote covered the murders of a well to do Kansas family and visited the town with the writer Harper Lee (Sandra Bullock). Capote charms his way into this shell shocked town with celebrity gossip and name dropping.Capote gets access to the murderers and forms a strange bond with Perry Smith (Daniel Craig) who mixed sensitivity with callousness.This is a low budget film peppered with star cameos. Sigourney Weaver, Hope Davis, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Daniels, Isabella Rossellini and Peter Bogdanovich (check him out doing the Twist.) English actor Toby Jones is having a delectable time playing Capote and seems to have a more convincing resemblance as Capote than Hoffman. He really gets into the character of Capote and despite his mannerisms gives him a little steel as well which we see as he beats all-comers at arm wrestling.However we note that he is also distrusted by his circle of friends because nothing said to him remains in confidence.However the film felt slight, lightly textured which itself has mixed imagination with actual events such as a sexual encounter with Capote and Smith in prison. A well crafted film which the actors seems to have enjoyed making but not outstanding.

Bennett Miller's "Capote" with Phillip Seymour Hoffman got their first, leaving Doug McGrath's "Infamous" to suffer in comparison. Hoffman is superb and deserved his Oscar. But Jones, while not as skilled a performer (his Capote is more an impersonation than a character study) has more to deal with -- particularly as regards his romance with Perry Smith (a devastating Daniel Craig) I quite like the execution scene in "Infamous" particularly for its depiction of Capote overcome with sadness and running out of the chamber -- not willing to watch Smith die. But what's most markedly different about the two films is the way "Infamous" depicts Capote's New York social set: Babe Paley, Diana Vreeland, etc. They of course figured in what was to have been his next work "Answered Prayers." But when a chapter from that proposed magnum opus about New York society, "La Cote Basque: 1965" was published in "Esquire" magazine it caused a scandal that lost Capote all his friend. "Infamous" only mentions the book's title and notes he didn't write anything more substantial after "In Cold Blood." That's because of "La Cote Basque:1965." Therefore there's a THIRD Truman Capote film to be made about his unraveling. It's quite a story. The "swans" (the glamorous wealthy women he catered to) toss him out. He descends into drink, drugs and "Studio 54." Andy Warhol, who Capote had dismissed years before as an undesirable "fan" comes to his aide -- giving him the pages of his "Inter/View" magazine to write whatever he wants. He writes a few things there, notably "Handcarved Coffins" -- another true crime murder story that's even optioned by Hollywood (never made alas) But it's all over. His breakdown on the "Stanley Siegel Show" is indelible, and would make a great climax for a biopic of Capote's collapse. Anyone up for this? It could be really something.

"Infamous" is the second film telling the story of Truman Capote and his involvement with the killers of the Clutter family in Kansas. Released in 2006, it stars Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Sigourney Weaver, Lee Pace, Gwyneth Paltrow, Isabella Rosellini, Peter Bogdanovich, and Juliet Stevenson.Comparisons to "Capote" starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman are natural, though the films are based on different books. "Infamous" is based on George Plimpton's book about Capote, and "Capote" is based on Gerald Clarke's.It's the same idea - Capote travels to Kansas to write an article about the Clutter family murders and decides to make it into a book. He argues with his friend and traveling companion, Harper Lee, about the form it will take because. after all, nonfiction isn't a fictional novel. But in order to do any writing, Truman has to gain access to the D.A. Alvin Dewey (Jeff Daniels) and to the killers themselves, Dick and Perry (Lee Pace and Daniel Craig). Dick, a complete psychopath, has no trouble talking to Truman, but Perry is more reticent.It's ambiguous in both films just how much Capote played on Perry's need to be recognized as having the soul of an artist. The relationship started out at least to be based on lies. Here the sexual aspects of the relationship are more explored, and again, was Perry playing him or was he sincere? "Capote" dealt more with Truman's frustrations and guilt over his need to have a solid ending to his book, which couldn't happen until all the mens' appeals were used up. Here it's mentioned, and it's an issue, but the torture Truman suffers in "Capote" is palpable. Here the emphasis is more on the actual final result and the torture he suffered in its aftermath."Capote" was about Truman Capote, and the character of Harper Lee and other people in Capote's life was underused. Here, played by Sandra Bullock, she has much more to do, and we witness the dynamics of this important relationship. Bullock, by the way, does a terrific job as the down-to-earth, challenging woman who grew up with this man and takes the ride with him as long as she can.In "Infamous," we see Truman as the bon vivant, surrounded by friends like Babe Paley (Weaver), Slim Keith (Hope Davis), Bennett Cerf (Bogdanovich), Diana Vreeland (Stevenson) and Marella Agnelli (an impossibly beautiful Rosselini), and learn a bit about his relationship with lover Jack Dunphy (John Benjamin Hickey). The film uses a documentary style to "interview" some of these characters. All his dear friends, of course, would dump him when a segment of "Answered Prayers" was published, leaving Truman with a final, crushing heartbreak.As Truman Capote, Toby Jones looks and sounds just like him so much that it's eerie. His acting is excellent, with emphasis on the more flamboyant aspects of Capote's personality, where Hoffman's was more on the emotional and inner life of the man. It's a question of taste as to whom you like better, because both are marvelous. The surprise for most people will be Daniel Craig as Perry Smith, but it was no surprise for me, having seen him on stage in "A Steady Rain." The man is a chameleon, nothing less, totally wasted as James Bond and an equal to Daniel Day-Lewis or any of our film stars who are more thought of as "actors." The story of Truman Capote and his involvement with the killers of the Clutter family is a tragedy. Delusional Perry, who blamed everyone for his problems, lamenting what he could have been, feels he has so much in common with Capote. Yet he never realizes that despite this, Capote contributed to society while Perry took the lives of innocent people because Dick ordered him to do so.In the end, the guilt-ridden, saddened Capote basically stopped producing, drove away his friends and died an alcoholic drug-user. When they put the noose around Perry's neck, unfortunately, the noose went around Capote's as well. What price art.