Swoon

Filmmaker‘s month-to-month collection at New York’s Paris Theater, Filmmaker Journal Presents, continues in June with two new occasions coupled with in-person conversations.

On Monday, June 2, the Paris will welcome director Tom Kalin and producer Christine Vachon for a Q&A following a screening of 1992’s New Queer Cinema spotlight Swoon. Kalin co-wrote and directed this trendy tackle the notorious homicide trial of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr., a case that additionally supplied inspiration for the stage play Rope, later tailored for the display by Alfred Hitchcock. Swoon will present on a 35mm print courtesy of Kalin and the movie’s director of images, Ellen Kuras.

On Monday, June 23, director Mira Nair will go to the Paris to debate her 2001 crowd-pleaser Monsoon Marriage ceremony, an ensemble piece that facilities on the preparation for an organized marriage in India. The movie took residence the Golden Lion on the 2001 Venice Movie Pageant and was a Golden Globe nominee for Finest Overseas Language Movie.

The Paris Theater is proud to companion with Filmmaker Journal, a publication of The Gotham Movie & Media Institute, on Filmmaker Journal Presents, a month-to-month screening collection devoted to connecting audiences with the brand new and established movie artists who make New York Metropolis the middle of impartial media tradition. Guided by the journal’s Editor-in-Chief Scott Macaulay and Director of Editorial Operations Vadim Rizov, this collection will usually showcase one-of-a-kind movie screenings paired with in-depth, dwell discussions led by Filmmaker Journal writers with the important thing expertise liable for bringing the movies to life.

Earlier friends of the collection embrace Whit Stillman with Metropolitan; James Ivory & Kyra Sedgwick with Mr. & Mrs. Bridge; Greg Mottola, Hope Davis, Campbell Scott, and Liev Schreiber with The Daytrippers; Kelly Reichardt & Larry Fessenden with Wendy & Lucy; Kenneth Lonergan, Matthew Broderick, Jon Tenney, and Jeffrey Sharp with You Can Depend on Me; and Campbell Scott with Huge Evening.

Screening Instances and Hyperlinks to Tickets

Monday, June 2 at 6:30 PM: Swoon, Q&A with director Tom Kalin and producer Christine Vachon

Monday, June 23 at 7:00 PM: Monsoon Marriage ceremony, Q&A with director Mira Nair