“If Infamous is a different interpretation, it is a queerer one: a campier rendition of Capote, more irresistibly the life of parties, more likely to be mistaken for a woman. Gleefully, all those Breakfast at Tiffany’s-inspired apartment soirees feature more prominently this time around in a film that revels in the author’s social magnetism. A persistent name-dropper, it’s also fitting that Gwyneth Paltrow, Sigourney Weaver, Isabella Rossellini, and Hope Davis get to form his haute circle of girlfriends in a world of cribbed gossip and embellished Hollywood tales that travel (and morph) as quickly from Brando to Sinatra to Bogey,” writes TIM WONG....[Read More]

One of thirty films on offer at this year’s World Cinema Showcase, Douglas McGrath’s Infamous grafts the tragic murders and birth of a literary masterpiece first detailed in Capote. The film’s second sight is curious, if not unavoidably bound to Bennett Miller’s earlier version of events. The entrée to the main course, the WCS is welcomed every Autumn; an unofficial opening to the film festival season, it curates accessible features, foreign imports and documentaries that either missed the boat the previous year, are premiering as teasers, or are returning by popular demand. Our coverage will continue over on The Festival Reader informally over the coming months. For festival venues and dates, view the Showcase media release, its full lineup of films, or worldcinemashowcase.co.nz for pending programme details.