Tom Kalin‘s 1992 film “Swoon” was a noteworthy entry in the New Queer Cinema canon not because of its subject matter but how Kalin navigated such precarious terrain. A recouping of the Leopold and ...

There’s a scene in Tom Kalin’s 1992 film Swoon where accused killers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb appear to make love in the middle of a courtroom. Amid a backdrop of documentary footage layered ...

Tom Kalin’s Savage Grace, from a screenplay by Howard A. Rodman, based on the book Savage Grace by Natalie Robins and Steven M. L. Aronson, fails to explain why its characters, supposedly drawn from ...

This true-life drama sees Moore return to somewhat familiar territory, playing Barbara Day Baekeland, lonely housewife to the heir of the Bakelite plastics fortune Brooks Baekeland (a sharp-edged ...

Thomas Thanangadan and Howard Loberfeld have joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as membership administrator and credits coordinator, respectively. The latter position was ...

For some audiences, watching the film may not prove as satisfying. In the film’s three major screenings, first at Cannes last May and then Sundance and Tribeca, people have been divided, especially ...

Tom Kalin (born 1962) is an award-winning screenwriter, film director, producer, and professor of experimental film at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee. His debut feature, Swoon, is considered an ...

FX’s upcoming docuseries about the fight for LGBTQ+ civil rights in America, “Pride,” has set its full director slate and lined up a May premiere date at the cable network. The six-part series, which ...

Julianne Moore’s latest character in Tom Kalin’s “Savage Grace” has her share of loose screws, but boy, does she have great style. The movie, which is based on the bestseller by Natalie Robins and ...