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Jul 1, 2010 · 7 minutes read. It’s been eight years since out writer-director Lisa Cholodenko stepped behind the camera to helm the steamy Laurel Canyon. In that time, Cholodenko also provided us with lesbian staple High Art, started a family with her partner, musician Wendy Melvoin, and has been hard at work penning what could easily be considered the ...
Nov 26, 2015 · Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right might have been the first lesbian-directed feature film to be nominated for an Oscar, but it was her debut feature High Art that captured the hearts and minds of international critics and audiences hungry for stories from the queer margins.
Mar 26, 2020 · Twenty-two years later, High Art (1998)—director Lisa Cholodenko’s first feature film—resonates simultaneously as a timeless meditation on love, loss and art and as a trenchant drama with distinctive roots in 1990s aesthetics, culture and social issues.
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The 1980 family drama represents what Cholodenko loves about movies. “That was a big one for me. That showed me you can really say some stuffabout people’s weird psychologies,” she says. “Here was a parent [breaking] that myth of unconditional love. I found it comforting! It felt like truth I hadn’t really seen out there, validated. I love the dang...
As Cholodenko has moved more into TV, she cites HBO’s Italian series adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novels as a new favorite. “It’s exquisite. It reminds me that there’s still hope out there to make stuff that’s really layered and restrained. I wouldn’t say that inspired Unbelievable, but those kinds of shows, that kind of filmmaking, really inspir...
Gus Van Sant’s 1991 queer classic arrived as Cholodenko was just coming up. It galvanized her: “It wasn’t my story, but I was really emboldened by somebody going, ‘I’m gay and I’m making a film about gay guys that are interesting to me.’ And it’s so sexy to look at. It’s provocative.”
Once resistant to Hollywood tropes, Cholodenko was introduced to Lean classics like Lawrence of Arabia later in life. “I remember being wowed by the [period], what he would do with the camera, the scope, that form of storytelling,” she says. “It opened up my mind in that way: the wowfactor.”
When it comes to literary adaptations (she won an Emmy for helming HBO’s Olive Kitteridge), Cholodenko’s mind goes straight to some of the greatest films ever made. “For some reason I've been thinking a lot about The Godfather,” she says. “It had a real purpose and a punch [similar] to Unbelievable, in terms of being a crime saga. The limited serie...
Cholodenko says Jane Campion’s 1989 drama is the film that made her want to direct. “I remember seeing that alone in my early 20s and thinking, ‘My God, this is such a powerful medium,’ ” she says. “I just was like, 'I'm a woman, and there's a woman, and I'm feeling myself in the camera, and she's saying things I'm not supposed to be saying.' It wa...
A teenager is charged with lying about her rape allegation, but two determined investigative female detectives discover a far more sinister truth.
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Lisa Cholodenko (born June 5, 1964) [1] is an American screenwriter and director. Cholodenko wrote and directed the films High Art (1998), Laurel Canyon (2002), and The Kids Are All Right (2010). [2] [3] She has also directed television, including the miniseries Olive Kitteridge (2014) and Unbelievable (2019). [4]
