High Art

This movie(High Art)is a skillfully well-acted drama, it will gives all raves from the audiences at cinema theaters and in videos, seen by home viewers. High Art is a beautiful, poigant love story about a young ambitious editor named Sid, who... Full review

-after noticing a leak in her bathroom a young photographer Syd goes to her neighbors upstairs to find where the leak is coming from and whiles in their apartment she finds that they share her love for photography. Syd soon... Full review

High Art... Lisa does a wonderful job. I love the way she uses locations as an additional character. Ally Sheedy performace and then new comer Rhada Mitchell was one that anyone in any of the arts industries can fully understand and... Full review

This is probably one of the nicest romance between two woman I have ever seen and how it evolved gradually, and its very sweet.it touched my heart, and I already watched it 3 times and it did not bore me. The... Full review

Hard, tough, occasionally dream-like drama involving a drug-abusing lesbian photographer who's currently on "hiatus"; lured back into the professional world by a pretty art-magazine gopher, she finds herself in the middle of an affair. Emotionally intense movie is sharp and... Full review

Ally Sheedy always reminds me of the sweeet inncocent girl in the first movie I had the privilage to see her in titled "Short Circuit." However, in this movie, shes a lesbian? I wasnt thrown off, but intriggued with the story.... Full review

I've been reading a lot of the comments about this movie, and i've seen it probably 3 or more times. Yet most of the comments seem to establish it as just a lesbian movie. I don't believe that. I am... Full review

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Just my opinion: Most of the Actors in High Art have narrow ranges, but that doesn't make them "bad" actors, just limited to a range of motion (like a great distance runner who is a lousy sprinter). It takes a... Full review

I had the occasion to watch High Art a couple of days ago. I had no idea what it was called but I recognized Ally Sheedy and so I looked her movies up on the Net and lo and behold I... Full review

High Art is a richly detailed character study, beautifully textured and compelling throughout, a masterwork of independent American cinema that is provocative, haunting and audacious. It's been a long time between drinks, but Ally Sheedy gives the performance of her career, and delivers the most memorable female performance of the last 12 months. ... Full Review

The DVD Video: The anamorphic widescreen transfer of High Art is the best that could be done with an independent film shot on the cheap like this. It's a beautifully told story, punctuated with fantastic performances, and an easy film to recommend. ... Full Review

High Art was the last sophisticated indie queer film, and certainly superior to Cholodenko's uneven studio follow-up, Laurel Canyon (2002).....The artist mocks such language and attitude.....Most "affecting" is the way High Art still holds up as the most accomplished queer film made in the late '90s..... ... Full Review

High Art was the last sophisticated indie queer film, and certainly superior to Cholodenko's uneven studio follow-up, Laurel Canyon (2002).....The artist mocks such language and attitude.....Most "affecting" is the way High Art still holds up as the most accomplished queer film made in the late '90s..... ... Full Review

Cholodenko may take on one theme too many, and it sometimes feels like Cassavetes-lite, but High Art has much to recommend. Although clearly a critique of New Yorks heroin-chic boom of the early 90s, High Arts heart lies in the complex relationship between Sheedys drowsy, cynical thirtysomething, and Mitchells nave would-be yuppie. ... Full Review

For OpEdNews: Kevin Gosztola - Writer How fitting is it that during a week of premieres for Michael Moore's new film, Capitalism: A Love Story , the "group of twenty" nations (G20), which together account for about 85 percent of... ... Full Article

THE aging duelist sits in his Upper East Side apartment and contemplates all that is past, the polemics and late-night arguments and denunciations in one magazine or another. ... Full Article

How cool would it be to have Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as your parents? Two actresses who both deserve Oscars but have never won one, two actresses who are essentially fearless in the roles they choose, and two actresses... ... Full Article

Ex-Brat Packer Ally Sheedy briefly rehabilitated her career with this seductive love story between Sheedy's junkie photographer and Radha Mitchell's ambitious art-mag editor. One part lesbian awakening drama, two parts heroin horror show, High Art shuffles along in a haze... ... Full Article

The annual Benelux festival will pay special attention to China, in the year it will host arts festival Europalia. Ghent is planning a special programme of Chinese films across its sections, to give a broad overview of recentChinese cinema. ... Full Article

Mobtown Modern, the most way-out-there music organization in Baltimore, has announced another boldly unconventional lineup for the 2009-2010 season, along with a new venue. The concert series will still be presented by the Contemporary Museum, where Mobtown started out, but... ... Full Article