After 30 years, “Nadja” will return to theaters — this time with a 4K director’s reduce to showcase Michael Almereyda’s authentic imaginative and prescient for the cult vampire movie. “Nadja,” government produced by late auteur David Lynch (who additionally has a cameo within the movie), first debuted on the 1994 Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant. Now, the 4K restoration of the function will premiere at TIFF 2025.
IndieWire can announce that Grasshopper Movies will likely be distributing “Nadja” in 4K. Grasshopper Movies and Arbelos Movies acquired the worldwide distribution rights for the brand new model and can launch it in North American theaters in late 2025, adopted by a launch on streaming platforms.
“Nadja” blends André Breton’s surrealist 1928 novel of the identical identify with 1936 movie “Dracula’s Daughter.” Elina Löwensohn stars because the titular younger vampire who returns to NYC to avenge her father’s demise by the hands of Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Fonda). Jared Harris, Martin Donovan, Suzy Amis, Galaxy Craze, and Karl Geary co-star.
“Nadja” was shot in black-and-white 35mm with Pixelvision video by Jim Denault. Almereyda wrote and directed, with Mary Sweeney and Amy Interest producing and Lynch government producing.
“Michael Almereyda’s ‘Nadja’ is a singular work of American unbiased cinema — daring, dreamlike, irreverent, and intoxicatingly alive. It’s an honor to reintroduce this visionary movie in its authentic director’s reduce and in a luminous new restoration,” Grasshopper Movies’ Ryan Krivoshey stated. “We’re delighted to be collaborating with Arbelos on its launch in addition to the movie’s authentic solid and crew. And we’re particularly grateful to work with Michael as soon as once more in bringing one other of his exceptional movies to audiences.”
David Marriott of Arbelos added, “’Nadja’ is well one of the crucial creative and visually placing movies to emerge from the ’90s American unbiased motion. And its trendy sensibility and wholly distinctive fashion are poised to resonate with a brand new technology of filmgoers. We’re so thrilled to be collaborating with Grasshopper Movie and Michael on this 4K restoration of his director’s reduce.”
Almereyda later went on to helm “Hamlet,” “Experimenter,” and “Tesla,” amongst different acclaimed options.
Grasshopper Movie was based in 2015 and releases award-winning unbiased cinema, together with Albert Serra’s “Afternoons of Solitude” and Jem Cohen’s “Little, Large, and Far.” Previous releases embody Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “Footage of Ghosts,” Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan’s “Nocturnes,” Oksana Karpovych’s “Intercepted,” and the aforementioned Serra’s “Pacifiction.”
Arbelos is a Los Angeles-based movie distribution and restoration label releasing canon-expanding artwork home cinema. Current releases embody new 4K restorations of Marva Nabili’s “The Sealed Soil” and Robina Rose’s “Nightshift.”