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It\u2019s been 21 years since\u00a0Gregg Araki\u00a0debuted his masterpiece, \u201cMysterious Skin<\/a>.\u201d That\u2019s older than the apocalypse-defying adolescent characters in nearly every one of his movies \u2014 and ample time for Araki to level up as an artist, to the point that diving back into the project using a post-production tool called DaVinci Resolve allowed Araki to fix the little things that had bothered him about the film over the\u00a0years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just a better filmmaker than I was in 2003,\u201d Araki told me over coffee in Toluca Lake, six days after unveiling his night-and-day 4K restoration at the Sundance Film Festival. The director had agreed to meet me at his neighborhood Starbucks, where I found him holding court with an awestruck young actor. Still lean and muscular at 66, Araki wore a loose blue tank top, which suggests the filmmaker puts as much work into his biceps as he does his\u00a0movies.<\/p>\n

I complimented Araki on his radiant \u201cSkin\u201d \u2014 an unapologetically queer classic, made the year before \u201cBrokeback Mountain\u201d \u2014 which glows like never before, and he started to enumerate its imperfections: the reasons he\u2019s never been satisfied with the film\u2019s iconic opening credits, shots that weren\u2019t framed quite right, sub-par visual effects in the UFO scene. That\u2019s all been fixed, he insisted, now that digital tools exist to polish what was shot on 35mm two decades\u00a0ago.<\/p>\n

Following the acclaimed restoration of Lisa Cholodenko\u2019s \u201cHigh Art,\u201d Strand Releasing plans for a national theatrical release of \u201dMysterious Skin\u201d in 2026, with venues including the IFC Center in New York, Vidiots in Los Angeles, and the Roxie in San Francisco, as well as Alamo Drafthouse locations around North America. MK2 Films represents international sales and will also handle a French release of the film in 2026, while 4AD Records plans a vinyl release of the soundtrack, featuring Slowdive and Cocteau\u00a0Twins.<\/p>\n

Watch the new trailer here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Araki discovered the potential of DaVinci Resolve while making his latest feature, \u201cI Want Your Sex,\u201d which he world premiered at this year\u2019s Sundance. The new film is an irreverent, kinky blast \u2014 a return-to-form from the ultimate rebel of the \u201980s Queer New Wave \u2014 whereas \u201cMysterious Skin\u201d is an anomaly: a literary adaptation (his first) that encompasses nearly all the filmmaker\u2019s obsessions, from sexual self-discovery (\u201cTotally F***ed Up\u201d) to alien abductions\u00a0(\u201cNowhere\u201d).<\/p>\n

In Scott Heim\u2019s 1995 novel, two small-town Kansas teens discover a shared history of childhood sexual abuse. The first, a hustler named Neil (Joseph Gordon Levitt), spends his days chasing feelings his little league coach awakened him all those years ago, while his shy, developmentally stunted former teammate Brian (Brady Corbet) can\u2019t shake the belief that he was abducted by aliens as a\u00a0kid.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Mysterious Skin\u2019 was made on a very tiny budget \u2014 like a million or less \u2014 because I was adamant that I didn\u2019t want to compromise my vision of this movie. I didn\u2019t want to water it down for, you know, a TV audience,\u201d said Araki, who had received Heim\u2019s book in galleys even before it was published. The director adored it, but couldn\u2019t imagine a way to translate its \u201crawness\u201d to the\u00a0screen.<\/p>\n

At the time, he felt, \u201cI don\u2019t want to traumatize children to make a movie about child trauma,\u201d Araki recalled at an Academy Museum screening last summer (the restoration was done in collaboration with the Academy Film Archive, the Sundance Institute, the UCLA Film and TV Archive, Frameline, MK2 Films and Strand Releasing). And then the solution came to him: \u201cI had just done this pilot from TV where I was playing around with a lot of POV in editing and direct-to-camera eyelines,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe literally had a different script\u201d for the kids, Araki said. \u201cThe set was a very safe place, and the kids were very protected from \u2026 all of the adult themes in the\u00a0movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

These days, half the films invited to screen at Sundance deal with characters facing or otherwise trying to cope with trauma. In that sense, \u201cMysterious Skin\u201d was ahead of the\u00a0curve.<\/p>\n

\u201cI honestly can\u2019t watch trauma right now,\u201d Araki told me, whereas \u201cI Want Your Sex\u201d \u2014 a rowdy celebration of loosening up and testing one\u2019s boundaries \u2014 is the director\u2019s response to all that\u2019s going on in the world. \u201cI just wanted to make something that was pop and bright, you know, that put a little light into the world, because shit is like super dystopian or whatever. Civilians are getting shot in the fucking\u00a0street.\u201d<\/p>\n

Working on \u201cI Want Your Sex\u201d showed Araki the potential of DaVinci Resolve, a finishing tool that makes it possible to manipulate footage in countless ways. \u201cI could do all of these effects, like reframes, resizes, even relighting stuff,\u201d said Araki, who had unprecedented freedom to adjust what he\u2019d shot for \u201cI Want Your Sex\u201d during\u00a0editing.<\/p>\n

So when it came time to upgrade \u201cMysterious Skin,\u201d Araki didn\u2019t hesitate to apply those same tricks \u2014 improving even upon the process he\u2019d used to restore his \u201cTeen Apocalypse Trilogy\u201d\u00a0for the Criterion Collection the year before. With the support of Strand Releasing honcho Marcus Hu, Araki reached out to Beau Genot, who\u2019d handled post-production on the original\u00a0film.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe took our original negative and put it in Resolve. That basically allowed me to go through the movie and touch every shot,\u201d Araki said. \u201cIt was really being able to go in and just visually improve things. I would always be like, \u2018Could this be better?\u2019 I do a lot of this stuff with the sound off, so you\u2019re looking at it like pure visual language, like how the images are playing with each other. And the program gives you the ability to literally do anything you want. I think I manipulated every single shot in the\u00a0movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Araki\u2019s restoration of \u201cMysterious Skin\u201d essentially fulfills the film he originally envisioned without compromising a single thing. This isn\u2019t a case of George Lucas going back to overhaul elements fans know and love, nor an elaborate re-edit, \u00e0 la Francis Ford Coppola (two names it amuses a punk-kid-turned-indie-elder like Araki to be compared\u00a0to).<\/p>\n

Araki worked miracles to get the film made in 2005, but technology just wasn\u2019t there to finesse certain things \u2014 at least, not on the micro-budget he was working with at the time. \u201cI love the movie, but there are things in it that have always bugged me, an example being the flying saucers, because they look like Dixie cups. So I dropped this effect, where the light now comes shooting off the flashes,\u201d he said. He also tweaked the moment Brian and his mother react to the UFO outside their window, so the lighting\u00a0matches.<\/p>\n

In one scene (the night before Levitt\u2019s character flies home for Christmas), Araki adjusted two shots that didn\u2019t quite match. Neil is sitting in the passenger seat of the sadistic man\u2019s car, and it dissolves to him asleep in the same position, except: \u201cIn the original, we were just guessing where he is in the frame. Now it lines up exactly, because you can move the frame, so his head barely even moves,\u201d said Araki, who also admitted reversing a shot in the previous scene, as Neil leaves the sandwich shop. To match the child actor who plays young Neil, Levitt wears blue contacts over his naturally brown eyes, which aren\u2019t nearly as distracting in this pass. \u201dIt\u2019s just perfecting those sorts of things,\u201d he\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

For the director, the most important improvement came to the opening credits, which feature white text on a stark white background, as brightly colored breakfast cereal cascades in slow motion onto a boy\u2019s upturned face. Twenty years ago, the effect he wanted could only be achieved via optical printing, which introduced all kinds of debris. \u201cIt\u2019s supposed to be like this abstract white church,\u201d Araki said, \u201cbut you had all the distractions of it being scratched and dirty, with hair going in the gate \u2014 you know, all that shit that used to fly through the\u00a0frame.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the restoration, Araki went back to the negative and rebuilt the sequence entirely, using digital text to achieve what he\u2019d always intended. In doing so, he made a surprising discovery: There\u2019s real estate on the frame that has never been seen before, because there\u2019s a level of like cropping that\u2019s always happening when you\u2019re going through all these generations. With \u2018Mysterious Skin,\u2019 there was a weird mistake cropping that I\u2019d never seen before. I was like, \u2018What\u2019s going on? It looks wrong.\u2019 And so I was able to basically reframe the whole\u00a0movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

He could also color time it exactly as he\u2019d always imagined \u2014 or in some cases, even better. \u201cThere\u2019s a level of blue in particular that did not exist 20 years ago. I don\u2019t understand it exactly, but it\u2019s literally like a blue beyond what the eye can see, so there are colors that weren\u2019t even possible before,\u201d Araki said. In the early 2000s, studio productions could be more precise with their color palettes by having a digital intermediate made. \u201cBut we didn\u2019t have the budget. It was like a hundred grand in those\u00a0days.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, by importing the 35mm original into Resolve, Araki could be as artistic as he wanted, taking his time to get the look just right, instead of rushing through a two-day color timing session (as he had on the recent restoration of \u201cNowhere\u201d). \u201dI told the colorist, \u2018I want it to look very painterly.\u2019 Because my background is kind of in visual arts, I was really approaching the color as a painting and everything about the images like a composition,\u201d he\u00a0explained.<\/p>\n

Most of the time, that meant making the colors richer, which helps to reinforce the candy-bright sense of childhood Araki was going for in the flashback scenes. At other times, as when Neil meets his first trick in the park, he might dial it down. \u201cWe filmed the whole movie in the summer. It was like 110 degrees, and it\u2019s supposed to be like November\/December in that scene. So we went in, killed all the green, took all the green out of the plants. We brought the whole thing into this kind of cool, frigid air, like a wintry sort of\u00a0light.\u201d<\/p>\n

The way he sees it, Araki isn\u2019t betraying what came before \u2014 the way William Friedkin did in approving a Blu-ray release of \u201cThe French Connection\u201d that completely altered the film\u2019s vintage celluloid look. If anything, he was fulfilling his original intention, correcting for the limitations of 35mm. These days, Araki actually prefers to shoot on digital, as he did with \u201cI Want Your\u00a0Sex.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s just a level of control that you have,\u201d he said. \u201cI am not Christopher Nolan. I love digital. I just love the colors and how clean it is. And more than anything, I love the creative possibilities of it \u2014 they are kind of limitless.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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