Filtered anticipation: Truman Capote, film star

Hoffman (right) as Truman Capote

Fans of the writer Truman Capote (author of Breakfast at Tiffany's) will be treated with a Capote revival soon. A new biopic is already generating the 'Oscar buzz' we normally start to hear about at this time of the year, the recipient in this case being the skilled Phillip Seymour Hoffman in the shoes and bow-tie of the high pitch-voiced, celebrity-loving writer. A film version of his other famous book, In Cold Blood, is currently showing in the US. All hail the queen, then.

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Filtered homage: 30 years without Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini

If you undertand Italian, click here for a radio webcast on the 30th anniversary of the death of Pier Paolo Pasolini, one of the most important Italian post-war directors and intellectuals. Pasolini was murdered by a teenager on this date in Ostia, just outside Rome, as a consequence of foul play, although there has always been strong suspicion that he may have been killed by the fascists because of the strong content of his last film, Salo.

Still from Salo

Filtered news: Short films online

First, there was the festival in September and now it's all online. The organisers of the Talent Circle Super Shorts Film Festival 2005 are have announced the launch of their web site containing what they say is the UK's largest collection of British-made short films. 375 shorts across 13 categories can be webstreamed and none is longer than five minutes.
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