http://www.michaelalmereyda.com/shorts1 daily 0.75 2016-08-01 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/579f6de2579fb3b2c6a6272e/1467409470452/ shorts - The Man Who Came Out Only At Night 2014, 15:07 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/575ae0c101dbae2dd08e4d8a/575ae34c4d088e5993b9b3e8/1467409470452/manat+night.png shorts - The Man Who Came Out Only At Night 2014, 15:07 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/575ae0c101dbae2dd08e4d8a/575ae6608259b54fad35b733/1469110887750/killip_skinningrove3.jpg shorts - Skinningrove 2013, 14:38 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/575ae0c101dbae2dd08e4d8a/575ae21db09f956f20f7d4b6/1469110893812/what+is+cinema%3F+copy.jpg shorts - What is Cinema? 2012, 5:29 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/575ae0c101dbae2dd08e4d8a/575ae112f8baf31a8cf2a3eb/1465573657549/what+is+cinema%3F+copy.jpg shorts https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/575ae0c101dbae2dd08e4d8a/576bff5b440243decaa71b15/1467409491122/Screen+Shot+2016-06-23+at+11.20.57+AM.png shorts - The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes 2011, 11:03 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/575ae0c101dbae2dd08e4d8a/579f6cebd1758e1806a8addf/1470066142182/rockinghorse.png shorts - The Rocking-Horse Winner 1998, 22:26 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/575ae0c101dbae2dd08e4d8a/579f6c7fff7c50b7dc71d307/1470065878226/AliensStill.jpg shorts - Aliens 1993, 13:04 http://www.michaelalmereyda.com/books daily 0.75 2016-07-29 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/579aa477be65948616af453d/1469752395910/ books - For Now: William Eggleston From the publishers website: "For Now is the result of filmmaker Michael Almereyda's year-long search through the Eggleston archives, a remarkable collection of heretofore unseen images spanning four decades of work by one of our seminal artists. Unusual in its concentration on family and friends, the book highlights an air of offhand intimacy, typical of Eggleston and typically surprising." december 2010 12 x 14 inches 87 four-color plates 144 pages   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/575c736337013b38edb056ba/575c736a7da24f14b3be64aa/1469752395910/71cXB8jUYAL.jpg books - For Now: William Eggleston From the publishers website: "For Now is the result of filmmaker Michael Almereyda's year-long search through the Eggleston archives, a remarkable collection of heretofore unseen images spanning four decades of work by one of our seminal artists. Unusual in its concentration on family and friends, the book highlights an air of offhand intimacy, typical of Eggleston and typically surprising." december 2010 12 x 14 inches 87 four-color plates 144 pages   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/575c736337013b38edb056ba/575c74dc57bf42edea6da713/1465676995882/71cXB8jUYAL.jpg books - For Now: William Eggleston For Now is the result of filmmaker Michael Almereyda’s year-long search through the Eggleston archives, a remarkable collection of heretofore unseen images spanning four decades of work by one of our seminal artists. Unusual in its concentration on family and friends, the book highlights an air of offhand intimacy, typical of Eggleston and typically surprising. december 2010 12 x 14 inches 87 four-color plates 144 pages   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/575c736337013b38edb056ba/575c7793f8baf37426e4e353/1469752439571/41sdgLwuJtL.jpg books - Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky "A major influence on American poets of the twentieth century, Mayakovsky's work remains fascinating and urgent. Very few English translations have come close to capturing his lyric intensity, and a comprehensive volume of his writings has not been published in the past thirty years. In Night Wraps the Sky, Michael Almereyda presents Mayakovsky's key poems―translated by a new generation of Russian-American poets―alongside memoirs, artistic appreciations, and eyewitness accounts, written and pictorial, to create a full-length portrait of the man and the mythic era he came to embody." -- The New Yorker, July 21, 2008 304 pages Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/575c736337013b38edb056ba/5765893ff7e0ab30ce6e2003/1469720843099/415NGHD49RL._SX295_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg books - William Shakespeare’s Hamlet Published screenplay of the film Hamlet (2000), with notes and commentary. Faber and Faber, 2000, 160 pages http://www.michaelalmereyda.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2016-07-08 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/577ff8b2ebbd1af4c471caae/1467408826639/ PXL2000 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/575d8f8040261d88043f3521/575d8f883c44d8083197ea31/1467408826639/6a00d83452989a69e200e5503cdd8c8833-800wi.jpg PXL2000 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/575d8f8040261d88043f3521/5776e11b893fc094ec1c0e37/1467408670962/Almereyda_Denault_pixel92.jpg PXL2000 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/575d8f8040261d88043f3521/5761840659827e8a171980e4/1467408372015/Almereyda_Denault_pixel92.jpg PXL2000 - Michael Almereyda and cinematographer Jim Denault in Richmond Virginia, 1992 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/575d8f8040261d88043f3521/5776e0f4414fb5b6a1318866/1467408630593/Almereyda_Denault_pixel92.jpg PXL2000 http://www.michaelalmereyda.com/filmography-2 daily 0.75 2016-07-29 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/579bc3951b631bd12ffd34b2/1469825941219/ Filmography - Experimenter Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, 2015 1 hr 38 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/576c088a440243decaa7788a/1469825941219/eleph+in+the+room+experimenter.jpg Filmography - Experimenter Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, 2015 1 hr 38 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/576c0857197aeaf55ed0f570/1469720387543/cymbeline.jpg Filmography - Cymbeline Premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Italy, 2014 1 hr 38 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/5765b4c63e00be24e5487413/1469636480298/manat+night.png Filmography - The Man Who Came Out Only at Night Premiered at the New York Film Festival, 2013 15 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/5765b479e58c623156d45ba6/1469720512975/killip_skinningrove3.jpg Filmography - Skinningrove Best Non-Fiction Short at the Sundance Film Festival, 2013 Best Short at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2013 15 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/5765b288b3db2b2a68581cb6/1469643523302/The-Ogres-Feathers-2012-michael-almereyda-01.jpg Filmography - The Ogre's Feathers Premiered at the Rome Film Festival, Italy, 2012 20 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/5765b23359cc682f752c2917/1469636611796/Screen+Shot+2016-06-18+at+4.42.03+PM.png Filmography - A Great Gatsby in Five Minutes Premiered at the New York Film Festival, 2011 11 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/5765b16fbebafb3c2832194c/1469636648395/paradise1_body.jpg Filmography - Paradise Premiered at Film Comment Selects, New York, 2009 Gotham Award Nomination for Best Documentary 1 hr 22 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/577e80bfff7c5018d6f1bf99/1469643565456/Fronteir.png Filmography - Frontier Premiered at the Viennale, Vienna, 2011 29 min https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/5765b12b03596e3a6ca5d5bb/1469643582847/new+orleans.jpg Filmography - New Orleans, Mon Amour Premiered at the Torino Film Festival, Italy, 2008 1 hr 18 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/5765af9e15d5db3461568a30/1469636782330/EgglestonDVDcover.jpg Filmography - William Eggleston in the Real World Premiered at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2005 Gotham Award Nomination for Best Documentary 1 hr 27 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/5765af262994ca3a4e6d84f8/1469636822087/eb-was-left-out-1280.jpg Filmography - Deadwood: E.B. Was Left Out 2005 (TV Series,1 episode) 55 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/5765ad912e69cf4416d43133/1469636981052/314_2048x1152.jpg Filmography - This So-Called Disaster Premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2003 1 hr 29 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/5765ad3846c3c42a384dc00d/1469637026735/happyhereandnow.jpg Filmography - Happy Here and Now Premiered at CineVegas, 2002 1 hr 29 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/5765ac5be3df283360327a80/1469637073393/hamlet.jpg Filmography - Hamlet Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, 2000 1 hr 52 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/5765ac3d579fb345015cf4d3/1469643602854/rocking+horse.png Filmography - The Rocking Horse Winner Premiered at The New York Film Festival, 1997 Best Short at the Hamptons International Film Festival, 1997 22 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/5765ac11d2b857317598eca5/1469716265435/eternal.jpg Filmography - The Eternal Premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, 1998; 1 hr 35 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/5765aba4579fb345015cf22d/1469643820844/download.png Filmography - At Sundance Co-directed with Amy Hobby; Premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland, 1995 1 hr 11 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/5765aac6f7e0ab30ce6eb459/1469720481105/nadja.png Filmography - Nadja Premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, 1994 1hr 33 min.   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/5765aa57be659449f97eea0b/1469720488301/AliensStill.jpg Filmography - Aliens Premiered at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 1993 13 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/5761c138197aeae769f1f33b/1469643806494/5476364.jpg Filmography - Another Girl Another Planet Premiered at the Toronto international Film Festival, 1992 1 hr 2 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/5761c0ef03596ee92a801cc4/1469638597813/TwisterDVDcover.jpg Filmography - Twister Nominated for an IFP Spirit Award, Best First Feature, 1989 1 hr 33 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/5765a9eb6b8f5b316be44339/1469643858026/heroofourtime_01.jpg Filmography - A Hero of Our Time Premiered at the Walker Arts Center, Minnesota, 1987 26 min. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/5761c0976b8f5be68415fd22/5765aa3eb8a79b2338809d9e/1466280512729/AliensStill+copy.jpg Filmography http://www.michaelalmereyda.com/book-chapters daily 0.75 2016-06-18 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/57659f6a5016e10f950abf0b/1466277587745/ Essays in Books - Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of the Plays with Medieval Sources or Settings Foreword "The Skeleton in the Mirror" by Michael Almereyda and Dakin Matthews 57 photos, filmographies, notes, bibliographies, index 284 pages, 2009 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/57658b0a59cc682f752b712d/57658b23d2b857317598599c/1466277587745/978-0-7864-3405-3.jpg Essays in Books - Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of the Plays with Medieval Sources or Settings Foreword "The Skeleton in the Mirror" by Michael Almereyda and Dakin Matthews 57 photos, filmographies, notes, bibliographies, index 284 pages, 2009 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/57658b0a59cc682f752b712d/57659dcd59cc682f752bc0d8/1466277738729/51KHphLMkzL.jpg Essays in Books - Paul Graham: Photographs 1981–2006 “A Shimmer of Possibility.” 376 pages, SteidlMACK; 1 edition (October 31, 2009) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/57658b0a59cc682f752b712d/57659e791b631b461dc89f2d/1466277692363/download.jpeg Essays in Books - 5x7, William Eggleston “Forever Changes: Eggleston in ’73.” Twin Falls Publishers, 2006 http://www.michaelalmereyda.com/newfuture-projects daily 0.75 2017-09-07 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/59b08e6e8dd0417b88e4b3ba/1500912659359/ NEW&FUTURE PROJECTS - MARJORIE PRIME Based on Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer-nominated play, set in the near future, a story about love, memory, and mortality – holograms included. Starring Lois Smith, Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Tim Robbins. Opening August 18th in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Santa Fe. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/577ffa7dbe6594ef7f79ff79/577ffad5d1758e9af4ffabb2/1500912659359/Robinette-MP_0311.jpg NEW&FUTURE PROJECTS - MARJORIE PRIME Based on Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer-nominated play, set in the near future, a story about love, memory, and mortality – holograms included. Starring Lois Smith, Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Tim Robbins. Opening August 18th in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Santa Fe. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/577ffa7dbe6594ef7f79ff79/577ffb359de4bb114775905b/1468005238879/Screen+Shot+2016-07-08+at+3.12.35+PM.png NEW&FUTURE PROJECTS - ESCAPES A portrait of Hampton Fancher -- flamenco dancer, actor, and producer/screenwriter of Blade Runner. Fancher tells his improbably true story in his own words, with a little help from Philip K. Dick and the parallel universe of collaged film footage.   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/577ffa7dbe6594ef7f79ff79/577ffc20bebafbf78184c46c/1504743022183/1-nikola-teslas-wireless-power.jpg NEW&FUTURE PROJECTS - ETERNITY'S SUNRISE The life and times of Nikola Tesla, Promethean inventor. Tesla triumphantly introduced the system of electric power that runs the world today, and his experiments with wireless energy remain ahead of the curve. http://www.michaelalmereyda.com/shorts daily 0.75 2016-08-01 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/579a28421b631b6b9fc22d68/1469720643942/2black.jpg Michael Almereyda SHORTS With one exception, these pieces were self-financed, made with friends, and unseen outside the film festival circuit. The films are offered here with the hope they might be considered worth watching. To view a video, just click on the title.   http://www.michaelalmereyda.com/writing daily 0.75 2016-07-29 http://www.michaelalmereyda.com/about daily 0.75 2017-06-10 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/576ffa7f37c581ea32ac10c7/1497114845674/ Michael Almereyda FLEETING JOY Some years ago, I looked on approvingly as a fellow in Pennsylvania, a self-professed fan, set up a website about my films called Fleeting Joy — taking a cue from a line in NADJA, spoken by the title character, a discontented vampire: Life is full of pain. But I am not afraid. The pain I feel is the pain of fleeting joy. These words were in fact lifted from a play by my friend David Edelstein. The Pennsylvanian web designer’s enthusiasm, at any rate, proved fleeting — the site now exists as a well-organized ruin, frozen at a point in the early aughts. All the same, a good deal of Fleeting Joy’s contents are imported into this new site, filled out with more recent work, more extensive links, newer news. http://www.michaelalmereyda.com/new-future-projects daily 0.75 2017-09-07 http://www.michaelalmereyda.com/home daily 1.0 2017-09-19 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/59c15ad8be42d6de448304f4/1505844051726/Marjorie_Prime+poster+.jpg Michael Almereyda Home “I watched Michael Almereyda’s movies and I read the script and I thought: I like his movies, I like this script, let’s put this chocolate and peanut butter together and see if we can get a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup” -John Hamm, New York Times. Sept 14, 2017 http://www.michaelalmereyda.com/what-is-cinema daily 0.75 2016-06-12 http://www.michaelalmereyda.com/man-at-night daily 0.75 2016-06-11 http://www.michaelalmereyda.com/aliens daily 0.75 2016-06-11 http://www.michaelalmereyda.com/rocking-horse daily 0.75 2016-06-11 http://www.michaelalmereyda.com/skinningrove daily 0.75 2016-06-11 http://www.michaelalmereyda.com/filmography-1 daily 0.75 2016-07-27 http://www.michaelalmereyda.com/pixelvision daily 0.75 2016-08-19 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/57b787751b631bd959b1abae/1471645562001/ Michael Almereyda PIXELVISION Various work from the 1990s made with the defunct Fisher-Price Pixelvision camera has been recently collected on DVD, headlined by the featurette ANOTHER GIRL ANOTHER PLANET and rounded out by the 1995 documentary AT SUNDANCE (co-directed with Amy Hobby). ANOTHER GIRL ANOTHER PLANET premiered at the 1992 Toronto Film Festival and was awarded a citation from the National Society of Film Critics for “expanding the possibilities of experimental filmmaking.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/579bc0fc9de4bb7ff30b8b14/1469825344312/ Michael Almereyda PIXELVISION https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/575ecc16ab48dee0319ba15a/1465830606103/ Michael Almereyda PIXELVISION ANOTHER GIRL ANOTHER PLANET – Pixelvision transferred to 16mm film; 56 minutes. http://www.michaelalmereyda.com/great-gatsby daily 0.75 2016-06-14 http://www.michaelalmereyda.com/filmography2 daily 0.75 2017-06-10 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/57a0b8d6bebafbfbfe7f2d39/1470151127743/paradise1_body.jpg Michael Almereyda FIlmography “I am enthralled by Paradise, a film whose documentary eye wanders while seeming to have great fixity of purpose just below the level of conscious apprehension.” Jonathan Lethem, Film Comment, 2003   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/57a0b58f15d5dbfa9f2409bc/1470150066058/ Michael Almereyda FIlmography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/57a0b9368419c284aeec19b3/1470150990354/ Michael Almereyda FIlmography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/57a0bca029687f7ef29b45cd/1470151881374/ Michael Almereyda FIlmography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/57a0b838cd0f686151d91137/1470150716271/ Michael Almereyda FIlmography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/57a0b9983e00be022d4f9816/1470151068726/ Michael Almereyda FIlmography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/57a0b9f4197aea965cc55021/1470151171136/ Michael Almereyda FIlmography “Fascinating… William Eggleston in the Real World speaks for itself in roughly the same mysterious way an Eggleston photograph does: it casts more light than you expect, and deeper shadows.” Terrence Rafferty, New York Times, August 28, 2005       https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/57a0bde64402439535f5567b/1470152170901/ Michael Almereyda FIlmography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/57a0bb7d6b8f5bcfaa12dda9/1470151675166/ Michael Almereyda FIlmography “Mr. Almereyda has created a new standard for adaptations of Shakespeare, starting with an understanding of the emotional pull of the material that corresponds with its new period and setting… The director's rigorous trimming has a boldness and vivacity that makes this version exhilarating while leaving Shakespeare's language and intent intact.” Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times, May 12, 2000   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/57a0bbc829687f7ef29b371e/1470151678355/ Michael Almereyda FIlmography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/57a0be9e03596ed4bfa77fdf/1470152356186/ Michael Almereyda FIlmography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/57a0bc655016e13b82b290df/1470151794824/ Michael Almereyda FIlmography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/57a0bd54b8a79be38debd04b/1470152028607/ Michael Almereyda FIlmography "The lushest film of the year thus far is Michael Almereyda's Nadja, a comic vampire tale, or portrait of the young as a lost tribe of bloodsuckers. Shot in shimmering, undulating black and white -- part Fisher-Price Pixelvision, part silvery 35mm -- Nadja follows the path of Dracula's moody daughter, who, discontented with the routine, intends somehow to start over, be born again." - Georgia Brown, Village Voice, 1995 Rated #4 in the Voice's "20 Best Modern Vampire Movies, 1979 to the present" (2014) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/579f7b21e6f2e1bb0fe585f1/1470069810476/cymbeline.jpg Michael Almereyda FIlmography “…Unfolds like a tragedy, gradually shedding all its armor until it winds up, naked and a little crazy, as something of a comedy. You don't have to love Shakespeare's Cymbeline to get swept up in the spirit of Almereyda's: With its shootouts, its subcurrents of tenderness and eroticism, its trick-or-treat mischief-making, this adaptation is brash and inventive and more than a little wild. But all this madness has a purpose: As with Hamlet, Almereyda is most interested in testing and proving the resilience of Shakespeare, challenging us to see how it holds up in the modern universe. Steaphanie Zacharek, Village Voice, September 4, 2014 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/57a0bee1e6f2e18d45e8c0d2/1470152424129/ Michael Almereyda FIlmography "First-time director Michael Almeredya, who adapted the script from Mary Robison's 1981 novel OH!, has etched a disturbingly comic portrait of the nuclear family nuked....The film may be blissfully bonkers, but it also speaks tellingly of the dislocation in American life. Part fun house, part chamber of horrors, Twister emerges as outrageous, original entertainment." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone, 1989   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/57a0bf3e59cc68d4cd069907/1470152518793/ Michael Almereyda FIlmography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/57a0bb426a4963aa41f84a8d/1470151495229/ Michael Almereyda FIlmography “An uncanny pulse-taking of our technology-saturated times, where identity has become not just a salable commodity but a mass-marketed one. This singular, raggedly beautiful film, which also manages to fit concerns about detective noir, Blaise Pascal’s Pensees and the blues music of the late Ernie K. Doe into its svelte 89-minute form, isn’t for everyone…But it will foster a core critical contingent that will find itself transfixed and, ultimately, deeply moved by the film’s ravishing power.” Scott Foundas, Variety, June 12, 2002 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/579f7db9f5e231c30c1af100/1470070215847/ Michael Almereyda FIlmography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/579f6ea1893fc0bca0276afb/1497118343881/Experimenter Michael Almereyda FIlmography “A conceptually exciting, intellectually searching portrait of the social psychologist Stanley Milgram….Mr. Almereyda bridges the past and present with a movie that looks back at the Holocaust and toward Abu Ghraib. Peter Sarsgaard, occasionally addressing the camera and sometimes accompanied by an elephant that materializes in the room, delivers a forceful yet intimate performance that expresses his character’s sincerity and the sinister undertow of his methods. Sundance could use more movies, like “Experimenter,” that are adventurous in form and thought, not just in subject. Manohla Dargis, New York Times, October 16, 2015   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/57a0ba7cd482e9bf459f742a/1470151308524/ Michael Almereyda FIlmography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/57a0baddff7c508925c38516/1470151396198/ Michael Almereyda FIlmography “Sam Shepard invited Almereyda to film his own rehearsals for the San Francisco stage production of his autobiographical play The Late Henry Moss, featuring Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, James Gammon, and Cheech Marin… Almereyda's judicious observation and careful editing keep Shepard's serious work with actors and honest wrestling with personal demons fascinating and instructive throughout.” Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader, 2003 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5756d6f71bbee02174a26b55/t/579f7c6d20099e7e55d2ac1b/1470069966913/ Michael Almereyda FIlmography