Blu-ray Release: High Art

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Laurence
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Blu-ray Release Date: June 16, 2026
Price: Blu-ray $31.99
Studio: Criterion Collection

In a revelatory performance, Ally Sheedy stars in writer-director Lisa Cholodenko’s (The Kids Are All Right) 1998 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, Citizen Jane), a once prominent photographer who has retreated into a life of heroin abuse with her faded-actress lover (Patricia Clarkson, One Day), is rediscovered by Syd (Radha Mitchell, Pitch Black), 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.

Criterion’s director-approved Blu-ray special edition contains the following:

  • 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
  • An essay by critic B. Ruby Rich
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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.