Swoon (1991)

Daniel Schlachet, Craig Chester, Ron Vawter, Michael Kirby, Michael Stumm ... see more  , Valda Z. Drabla , Oscar Aleman , Ed Altman , Isabela Araujo , Robert Austin , Glenn Backes , Emanuel Baetich , Robert Beck , Michael Becker , Malcolm A. Beers Jr. , Zoe Bissell , Dean C. Blanco , Barbara Bleier , Gregg Bordowitz , Catarina Borelli , Peter Bowen , Judith Boxley , Jill Buchanan , Dick Callaghan , Christopher Cangelosi , Barry Cassidy , Brent Charleton , David Cheever , Paul Connor , Addison Cook , James Crafford , Douglas Crimp , James Cummings , Mike Diaz , Phelim Dolan , Richard Elovich , Patricia Fabricant , Steven Flum , Mona Foot , Robert Funes , Lou Galiardo , Carl M. George , Debra Goodman , Joseph Harding , Christopher Hoover , Ken Howarth , Verne F. Hoyt , Andrea Kislan , Pamela Koffler , Anna Kohler , Heidi Kriz , Gary Lamadore , Ryan Landry , Maddy Lederman , Leland Douglas , Barry Liebowitz , Christie MacFadyen , Scott K. MacArthur , Julian Marynczak , John McGee , Robert McKanna , Jean Claude Monfort , John A. Mudd , Dana Nasrallah , Michael Nesline , Craig Paull , Adina Porter , Owen H. Ranft , Robert Read , Bobby Reed , Jerome F. Richards , Carlos Rodríguez , John Rowan , Paul Joshua Rubin , Elion Sacker , Richard Schechner , Emily Sherman , Andy Mark Simpson , Natalie Stanford , Philip Stanton , Hobson Sturtevant , Stanley Taub , Tanya Taylor , Emmitt Thrower , Elizabeth Towson , Trash , Trasharama , Richard R. Upton , Robert Vazquez , Alex Vean , John Ventimiglia , Pepe Vives , William Walters , Ray Wasik , Eric J. Wiggins III , Nashom Wooden , Burt Wright , Daniel Haughey , Todd Haynes , James Lyons , Nina Port , Lauren Zalaznick , Paul Schmidt , Jim Crawford , Robert Sullivan

Tom Kalin directed this cool and aloof black-and-white study of the infamous Leopold and Loeb case, a case told before in two previous films -- Rope and Compulsion. In 1924, in Chicago, Nathan Leopold... read more  Jr. and Richard Loeb, two 18-year-olds, kidnapped and murdered the 13-year-old Bobby Franks, immediately killing him and then stuffing his naked body up a culvert. The motive for the crime was simply that they wanted to prove to themselves that they were smart enough to get away with it. The previous film versions downplayed Leopold and Loeb's homosexuality, but Kalin's version plays it up into a psychosexual motif. Loeb (Daniel Schlachet) is the calculating intellectual, while Leopold (Craig Chester), the amateur ornithologist, is the emotional and weak one. In love with Loeb, Leopold is willing to do anything for him, and when Leob uses the withholding of sex as a prompt, Leopold is even willing to commit murder to have his sexual desires satisfied by Loeb. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi