Sign up for Sight & Soundâs Weekly Film Bulletin and more News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. Email â¶ Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote, two of Americaâs most famous Southern writers, werenât the greatest of friends. Their paths crossed meaningfully, however, at times leading to âbitcheryâ, as Williams put it deliciously, but also to genuine appreciation for each otherâs work. Their camaraderie and rivalry get an intelligent treatment in Lisa Immordino Vreelandâs scrupulous documentary, Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation. The film has few direct exchanges between Williams and Capote, but makes up for this lack by weaving their separate television appearances with other archival footage, the writersâ papers, collections and manuscripts, interviews, press clippings, and photographs (some famous, such as by Richard Avedon), to reconstruct their parallel paths to stardom.Â