David Lynch-Produced ’90s Vampire Film ‘Nadja’ Restored in 4K for Theatrical Release
Invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget genre movie, writer-director Michael Almereyda (Experimenter, Telsa) recombined characters from Bram Stoker and set them loose in contemporary New York with Nadja. Almereyda’s director’s cut of the film — as it premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival, three minutes longer than the commercial […]
Invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget genre movie, writer-director Michael Almereyda (Experimenter, Telsa) recombined characters from Bram Stoker and set them loose in contemporary New York with Nadja.
Almereyda’s director’s cut of the film — as it premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival, three minutes longer than the commercial release — has been digitally restored in 4K from the only extant element, the 35mm print.
The new restoration opens at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City on February 6, with additional screenings to follow.
Part seductive reverie, part spoof, Nadja is described as a delirious mashup of André Breton’s 1928 Surrealist novel of the same name and 1936’s Dracula’s Daughter.
Elina Löwensohn stars as Nadja, a disillusioned “young” vampire who imagines herself liberated by the death of her father, Count Dracula — but the unhinged Dr. Van Helsing wants to destroy her as well, interrupting her reunion with twin brother and pursuing them into a netherworld of shadows.
Peter Fonda, Galaxy Craze, Martin Donovan, Karl Geary, Jared Harris, and Elina Löwensohn round out the cast.
Lynch, who fully financed the film when other investors faded out, serves as executive producer and has a cameo as a hypnotized morgue attendant.
