"Was it a crime of passion? Or a passion for crime? "
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Featuring: Daniel Schlachet - Ron Vawter - Michael Kirby - Michael Stumm - Valda Z. Drabla - Natalie Stanford - Isabela Araujo - Jill 'spanky' Buchanan - Trash
Special Features: A newly remastered video supervised by cinematographer Ellen Kuras and director Tom Kalin. Original theatrical trailer. Commentary track with director Tom Kalin, producer Christine Vachon, cinematographer Tom Kalin, and actor Craig Chester. Photo B&W, Mono
Director: Tom Kalin
Writer: Hilton Als-Tom Kalin
Editor: Tom Kalin
Composer: James Bennett
Sound: Laurel Bridges, Neil Danziger, Susan Demskey, Julie Wilde
Producer: Tom Kalin, James Schamus, Christine Vachon, Peter Wentworth, Lauren Zalaznick
Genre: Gay; Drama
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Full Frame
Region Code: 1
Rating: NOT RATED
Languages: English
Studio: Strand
Street Date: August 24, 2004
The true story of gay lovers, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. who kidnapped and murdered a child in the early 1920s for kicks. The plot covers the months before the crime, the investigation, trial and final fate of the two men.
Tom Kalin's Swoon gives the truest account yet of one of the 20th century's most notorious crimes: The 1924 thrill-kill murder of a 13-year-old boy in south-side Chicago by "genius" college students and lovers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. It's the same story that inspired Hitchcock's Rope and Meyer Levin's novel, Compulsion, but Swoon forces its driving homoeroticism into the daylight (not to mention the Jewishness of both killers and victim). Featuring the legendary Ron Vawter as the prosecuting state's attorney, Swoon flexes its brainy elegance to question the "queerness" of the case, and even extends the story to reveal how each of the imprisoned duo met his eventual death. A former member of New York's ACT UP and the AIDS activist collective Gran Fury, Kalin is bracingly indifferent to the tyranny of "positive images" where same-sex desire is concerned, and Swoon, in its defiance and its lyrical intelligence, stands peerless within the last century's queerly-inclined cinema.
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