Michael Almereyda

Paradise (2008)

Cast: Michael Almereyda Terrence Malick Colin Farrell Elina Löwensohn Sonic Youth   

Tags: Biography Armchair Travel Culture & Society 

Length: 75min

Filmmaker Michael Almereyda offers a look into his life and his adventures around the world in this episodic documentary shot on video. Beginning and ending with footage of Almereyda at the airport, Paradise captures moments both simple and majestic,...

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William Eggleston in the Real World (2005)

Cast: Michael Almereyda Bruce Wagner William Eggleston Winston Eggleston Leigh Haizlip   

Tags: Biography Visual Arts Art History Graphic & Applied Arts 

Length: 86min

Photographer William Eggleston created a sensation in the art world in 1976 when a collection of his work went on display at the Museum of Modern Art. While the Memphis native's work went against the grain of the conventions of art photography of the...

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Happy Here and Now (2002)

Cast: Ally Sheedy Michael Almereyda Clarence Williams III David Arquette Karl Geary   

Tags: Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Crime Thriller Mystery Psychological Sci-Fi 

Length: 89min

Drawn into a menacing underground world of the New Orleans elite while searching for her missing sister, Muriel (Shalom Harlow), Amelia (Liane Balaban) is aided in her investigation by ex-CIA agent Bill (Clarence Williams III) in this effort from...

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This So-Called Disaster (2003)

Cast: Michael Almereyda Sam Shepard Woody Harrelson Nick Nolte Sean Penn   

Tags: Biography Theater Filmed Play 

Length: 87min

In 2000, director Michael Almereyda brought his film crew to San Francisco to document the rehearsal process for the Magic Theater's production of Sam Shepard's play +The Late Henry Moss, as directed by the playwright himself. The resulting film, This...

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The Eternal (1998)

Cast: Christopher Walken Michael Almereyda Alison Elliott Jared Harris Lois Smith   

Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror 

Length: 95min

Christopher Walken, Jared Harris and Alison Elliott star in this supernatural tale of terror about a beautiful Ireland-born American young woman who has been suffering from terrible headaches and memory blackouts. On a trip to her ancestral home in...

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Hamlet (2000)

Cast: Sam Shepard William Shakespeare Bill Murray Michael Almereyda Julia Stiles   

Tags: Psychological Drama Tragedy Drama 

Length: 111min

William Shakespeare's classic tale is brought to the screen for the third time in ten years in this modernized interpretation. Writer/director Michael Almereyda updates the story to the present day, where Hamlet (Ethan Hawke) is a struggling filmmaker...

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Nadja (1994)

Cast: Peter Fonda Michael Almereyda David Lynch Suzy Amis Elina Löwensohn   

Tags: Sex Horror Horror 

Length: 105min

This stylish combination of expressionistic horror and deadpan black comedy centers on the activities of a beautiful female vampire on the streets of New York City. Playing fast and loose with the Dracula legend, the film examines the legendary...

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Another Girl, Another Planet (1992)

Cast: Michael Almereyda Elina Löwensohn Isabel Gillies Mary Ward Barry Del Sherman   

Length: 56min

In this short independent feature, an ordinary-looking guy proves to be an unusually successful womanizer, and his East Village apartment begins to assume aspects of Grand Central Station. He is so attractive to one of the women he seduces that he has...

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The Rocking Horse Winner (1997)

Cast: Michael Almereyda   

Length: min

Director Michael Almereyda (The Eternal, Nadja, Twister) adapted this D.H. Lawrence short story about a child who has the power to predict racing horse winners while atop his own rocking horse. Filmed entirely in "Pixelvision": video cameras sold by...

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