Capote (2005)
Directed by Bennett Miller
A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".
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Romanek, a noted music-video whizz whose second feature this is, does an important job laying the story’s emotional foundations with his younger actors, and the cinematography by Adam Kimmel (Capote) has a chilly elegance.
He isn't out to visually dazzle viewers?even if the film is very well shot by cinematographer Adam Kimmel (2005's " Capote "), making haunting use of the English countryside and shore?but to explore the struggle of the human condition to do something with one's life before it's over.
But Mr. Miller’s earnest sensibility and solemn style — as exemplified by the Oscar Best Picture nominee “Capote” — here make “Moneyball” one long seventh-inning stretch.
Director Bennett Miller has a strong star in Brad Pitt as the charismatic Beane, and he’s prevailed upon the chameleonlike Philip Seymour Hoffman — who last did “Capote” for him — to play a tough coach.
Director Bennett Miller , whose feature debut was the excellent " Capote ," knows that a tangle of flow charts and on-base statistics isn't going to cut it with audiences, even though that tangle is central to Beane's make-over of the game.
As Beane had traded players and ditched scouts, so did Pitt run through at least three writers Stan Chervin (story) plus Oscar-winning scribes Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin and three directors: David Frankel of The Devil Wears Prada and Marley & Me, then Oceans helmer Steven Soderbergh and finally Capote's Bennett Miller.
Director Bennett Miller has a flat, journalistic approach, which didn�t work at all for me in his previous film, Capote, which deserved more style.
Director Bennett Miller (Capote), picking up after Steven Soderbergh left the production, handles the behind-closed-doors drama with a style that respects the inherent intrigue of the action; there is no false aesthetic manipulation to heighten the film’s heavy exchanges, and as a result Moneyball unfolds smoothly as the kind of baseball movie that even those who couldn’t care less about baseball will find engrossing.