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Michael Almereyda

Michael Almereyda

Michael Almereyda (born 1960) is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Feeling most well known work of the business the hamlet (2000), starring Ethan Hawke.

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Movies Made By Michael Almereyda (36)

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (2025)

The daring experimenter Dr. John C. Lilly dedicated his life to radical self-investigation and unlocking the mysteries of consciousness and communication. "My body is my laboratory" was the motto, and his research on the language of dolphins and whales – ...

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Tesla (2020)

The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous work—by pioneering a system of wireless energy that would change the world. ...

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The Lonedale Operator (2020)

The writings and movie memories of renowned poet John Ashbery are refracted in a kaleidoscope of film clips that open up an illuminating dialogue between his work and cinema ...

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The North Wind's Gift (2018)

A magic microwave ensnares a starving family and their landlord. ...

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To the Unknown (2018)

Almereyda's reading of Kenneth Koch's "To the Unknown" transforms footage of the everyday into a moving tribute to one of the New York School's most treasured and inventive poets. ...

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Escapes (2017)

Escapes blazes a path through mid-20th-century Hollywood via the experiences of Hampton Fancher – flamenco dancer, actor, and the unlikely producer and screenwriter of the landmark sci-fi classic Blade Runner. Fancher recounts episodes from his life — ...

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Marjorie Prime (2017)

A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband. ...

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Three for the Road (2016)

Interview with director Wim Wenders conducted and edited by filmmaker Michael Almereyda. ...

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Experimenter (2015)

Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they're delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for m ...

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Cymbeline (2014)

War erupts between dirty cops and outlaw bikers as a drug kingpin tries to protect his empire. ...

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Giving Up the Ghost (2013)

A visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda. ...

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The Man Who Came Out Only at Night (2013)

In this retelling of an Italian folktale, a man marries the youngest of three sisters and shares a very strange secret with her on their wedding night. ...

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Skinningrove (2013)

A photographer shares unpublished images chronicling time spent among the 'fiercely independent' residents of a remote English fishing village. ...

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The Ogre's Feathers (2012)

A young man sets out on a journey to the Ogre's lair, in search of a feather with the power to save a dying king. ...

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What Is Cinema? (2012)

Commissioned by Chuck Workman and excerpted in his What is Cinema (2014). Never screened in public. ...

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The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes (2011)

The Fitzgerald classic as you've never seen it, transposed to a Los Angeles of sleek modern architecture and strip-mall foot clinics. ...

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New Orleans, Mon Amour (2008)

One year after Hurricane Katrina, troubles arise for a surgeon who, despite remarrying his ex-wife and starting his life anew, becomes reacquainted with an former girlfriend. ...

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A Damn Fool Scheme (2007)

Four short films were created in honor of artist residency program MacDowell's Centennial in 2007. Four artists, competitively selected from among hundreds of MacDowell filmmakers, employ their own techniques—documentary, dramatic, experimental, and anim ...

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Noise (2006)

Footage from 2005's Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne Balibar, and other acts. ...

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William Eggleston in the Real World (2005)

Documentary about William Eggleston, a famous modern American photographer. ...

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This So-Called Disaster (2003)

Director Michael Almereyda's documentary on the weeks just prior to Sam Shepard's stage production of his play "The Late Henry Moss. ...

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A Brief History of Surrealism (2003)

André Breton, the great leader of the surrealist revolution, is still alive and he is in New York! Filmed with Almereyda's favourite Pixelvision camera (a children's camera that became popular among experimental film makers), the master demonstrates his p ...

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Happy Here and Now (2002)

When her sister suddenly vanishes, a young girl sets out to find her, desperately searching the internet for clues. Joining her is an ex-CIA agent, who uncovers fragments of online chats the missing girl had with a softcore pornographer. ...

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Hamlet (2000)

Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City. ...

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The Eternal (1998)

An alcoholic American couple travel to Ireland with their son so he can meet his grandmother but they walk in on their crazed uncle who is in the midst of reviving a centuries-old Druid witch. ...

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The Rocking Horse Winner (1997)

A gambler comes to live with his sister and discovers his young nephew can predict the winner of horse races by riding on his rocking horse. ...

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Nadja (1995)

In a contemporary New York City, members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted by Dr. Van Helsing and his hapless nephew. As in all good vamp ...

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Search and Destroy (1995)

A self-help guru's televised teachings inspire a down-and-out businessman to pursue his dream of making a movie. ...

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At Sundance (1995)

A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, Greg Araki, Abel Ferrara, Atom Egoyan, James Gray, Robert Redford, Haskell Wexler, among many others. Co-directe ...

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Aliens (1993)

Two young boys discuss their favorite movies and the nature of "passive resistance" while playing a video game. ...

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Another Girl Another Planet (1992)

Men and women search for intimacy and meaning in their lives. ...

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Until the End of the World (1991)

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CI ...

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Twister (1989)

An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is currently dating a children's TV evangelist. Also living at the farm is his layabout daughter and her pre ...

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Cherry 2000 (1987)

When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the treachero ...

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A Hero of Our Time (1985)

Loosely based on a section of Mikhail Lermontov's classic Russian novel of the same title, the film involves a displaced cowboy (played by Kevin Jarre, the screenwriter of Rambo), a sociopathic record producer (Dennis Hopper) and, caught between them, a gu ...

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Movies Starring Michael Almereyda (4)

Three for the Road (2016)

Interview with director Wim Wenders conducted and edited by filmmaker Michael Almereyda. ...

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Giving Up the Ghost (2013)

A visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda. ...

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William Eggleston in the Real World (2005)

Documentary about William Eggleston, a famous modern American photographer. ...

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At Sundance (1995)

A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, Greg Araki, Abel Ferrara, Atom Egoyan, James Gray, Robert Redford, Haskell Wexler, among many others. Co-directe ...

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