Biography
Lisa Cholodenko (born June 5, 1964) 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). She has also directed television, including the miniseries Olive Kitteridge (2014) and Unbelievable (2019). She has been nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe and has won an Emmy and a DGA Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lisa Cholodenko, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Petrol
2023
Thanks
An idealistic film student is drawn into a shadowy and intoxicating world when she befriends an enigmatic performance artist.

Hal
2019
as Self
Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But as co...

The Kids Are All Right
2010
Director, Writer
Two women, Nic and Jules, brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids...
Notes on the Death of Kodachrome
2006
as Self
Jennifer Montgomery tracks down three old friends (Joe Westmoreland, Lisa Cholodenko, and Todd Haynes) who borrowed and never returned pieces of her s...

Cavedweller
2004
Director
A traumatic event sends a musician back to her hometown in an effort to reunite with the daughters she abandoned. To do so, she must confront her abus...

Laurel Canyon
2003
Director, Screenplay
When an uptight young man and his fiancée move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up.

High Art
1998
Director, Writer
When Syd, a young editor at an influential art magazine, becomes involved with her neighbor, a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both seek to explo...

Dinner Party
1997
Director, Writer, Editor
An unexpected surprise awaits dinner guests.

Beautiful
N/A
Director, Writer
Film adaptation of the stage musical "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical".
Rita
N/A
Director
A headstrong, unconventional teacher and single mother takes on every kind of authority - as well as her family - in a messy and unfiltered way.