HIGH ART (THE CRITERION COLLECTION) [BLU-RAY]

In a revelatory performance, Ally Sheedy stars in writer-director Lisa Cholodenko''''s debut feature, a wry and incisive look at the politics of the New York art scene wrapped in the guise of an emotionally spiky queer romance. When Lucy Berliner (Sheedy), a once prominent photographer who has retreated into a life of heroin abuse with her faded-actress lover (Patricia Clarkson), is rediscovered by Syd (Radha Mitchell), an up-and-coming editor at a photography magazine, professional ambition and personal attraction become dangerously entwined. Stripping away art-world glamour to tell a seductive yet troubling story of complicated human connection, High Art stands as an essential work of both queer and 1990s independent cinema. DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Lisa Cholodenko, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack Audio commentary from 2004 featuring Cholodenko New conversation between Cholodenko and filmmaker Karyn Kusama New interviews with actors Ally Sheedy and Radha Mitchell and photographer JoJo Whilden Dinner Party (1997), a short film by Cholodenko English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by critic B. Ruby Rich