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
Swoon
- 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.
