It’s high time as Oscar -Nominated Lisa KolodenkoBreakout director’s debut, “High art“Get back to theaters. Now, with a 4K restoration, the lesbian drama about three artists in psychosexual anxiety can reach a new generation.
IndieWire debuts the trailer for the 4K edition in 1998 film. The restored “high art” will have its New York Premiere at Newfest’s “Queering The Canon: So Obsat,” An April outbreak of the usual autumn festival. Cholodenko and leading star Ally Sheedy will participate in the show on April 3 on Brooklyn’s Bam. Author/director Cholodenko will also participate in a MOMA members such as screening on April 1 and the film’s April 4-theater release from IFC Center Post-Newfest.
“High Art” stars Radha Mitchell as a photographer who is fascinated by his neighbor (sheedy)-and that neighbor’s relationship with a drug-dependent actress (Patricia Clarkson). Gabriel Mann, Bill Sage, Charis Michelsen, David Thornton, Anh Duong and Helen Mendes star.
In “High Art”, the South (Radha Mitchell) is a future newspaper editor, bored in her straight relationship, who sparks an intensive connection to the famous yet relaxed lesbian artist Lucy Berliner (Sheedy) who lives upstairs in their dull apartment complex. Their relationship becomes overwhelmingly passionate and leads to artistic cooperation-but not but very emotionally injured, especially when their shared wish conflicts with the complaint from Lucy’s Heroin-Addled, German actress girlfriend Greta, played by Patricia Clarkson. This is one of the big, atmospheric new Queer films in the 1990s that captures New York in all its seedness and desperate ambition.
“High Art” won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Prize at Sundance at its premiere in 1998 and even opened Newfest that year. Cholodenko wrote and later directed “The kids are okay” (which she received an Oscar nomination with co-author Stuart Blumberg) and directed the HBO mini series “Olive Kitteridge.” She was Honor of Outfest with Visionary Award 2015. She has since been for TV series including “The Girl From Plainville” and “Incredible.”
“High Art” was digitally restored by Academy Film Archive and UCLA Film & Television Archive in conjunction with the Sundance Institute from 35mm Original Picture Negative and DA-88 band. Financing was provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Frameline, Sundance Institute and Ucla Film & Television Archive. Laboratory services came from Roundabout Entertainment, Inc., Red Hook Post and Monkeyland Audio. The film team also thanks antidote films, Marcus Hu, John Nein and Strand release for help with the restoration.
“High Art” in 4K will premiere at the IFC Center in New York on April 4 and April 11 at Egyptian and Vidiot theaters in Los Angeles from Strand Release. Check out the trailer, an indieviewer exclusive, below.
