JUN 2 2025
SWOON | Q&A with Tom Kalin & Christine Vachon
Screening on 35mm | Part of "Filmmaker Magazine Presents"
DETAILS
Q&A with writer-director Tom Kalin and producer Christine Vachon.
35mm print! The notorious case of Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb - two young, gay University of Chicago students whose 1924 thrill-killing of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks captured headlines as the “crime of the century”- is daringly reimagined in Tom Kalin’s subversive, smart, cooly stylized, and emotionally jarring New Queer Cinema touchstone.
The Paris Theater is proud to partner with Filmmaker Magazine, a publication of The Gotham Film & Media Institute, on FILMMAKER MAGAZINE PRESENTS, a monthly screening series dedicated to connecting audiences with the new and established film artists who make New York City the center of independent media culture.
WHEN
6:30 PM MON JUN 2FEATURING
DIRECTOR
Tom Kalin
RUNTIME
1h 33m
RATING
R
CAST
Craig Chester,
Daniel Schlachet,
Michael Kirby,
Michael Stumm,
Ron Vawter
CAST
Craig Chester,
Daniel Schlachet,
Michael Kirby,
Michael Stumm,
Ron Vawter
SYNOPSIS
The notorious case of Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb - two young, gay University of Chicago students whose 1924 thrill-killing of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks captured headlines as the “crime of the century”- is daringly reimagined in Tom Kalin’s subversive, smart, cooly stylized, and emotionally jarring New Queer Cinema touchstone.
