Truman & Tennessee: a tale of two wounded giants Documentary portrays the parallel lives of American literary icons Film Title: Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland Genre: Documentary This year’s second major documentary on Truman Capote covers some of the same ground explored in The Capote Tapes, Ebs Burnough’s fascinating account of Capote’s long-lost final novel. Director Lisa Immordino Vreeland finds revelatory material by placing the author alongside another giant of 20th-century literature, Tennessee Williams. Using correspondence between the two men, brilliantly voiced by Jim Parsons (as Capote) and Zachary Quinto (as Williams), Vreeland explores a meaningful, rocky friendship and the irresistible intersections between the lives of the writers. Separate interviews with David Frost and Dick Cavett provide an early highlight and an invaluable source. (Contemporary viewers should brace themselves for deep questions unheard in television encounters for many decades.) Capote is playful in his responses. Williams is pleasant but guarded. “I’ve never lived without feeling love,” he says, in a careful deflection.