Michael Almereyda Movies
- 2003
This So-Called Disaster
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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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- 1970
Zero K
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A young man drawn into the designs of his tech billionaire father in a remote desert compound where the wealthy seek to outwit death using cryonics...
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- 1985
A Hero of Our Time
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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...
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- 2011
The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes
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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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- 2006
Noise
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Footage from 2005’s Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne Balibar, and other acts.
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- 1992
Another Girl Another Planet
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Men and women search for intimacy and meaning in their lives.
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- 2005
William Eggleston in the Real World
William Eggleston in the Real World6.42005HD
Documentary about William Eggleston, a famous modern American photographer.
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- 2012
The Ogre's Feathers
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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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- 2013
Table Scraps: Notes on Babette's Feast
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In this essay on Babette's Feast, filmmaker Michael Almereyda charts the path from Isak Dinesen’s story to Gabriel Axel’s film, taking...
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- 2018
The North Wind's Gift
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A magic microwave ensnares a starving family and their landlord.
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- 2007
A Damn Fool Scheme
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Four short films were created in honor of artist residency program MacDowell's Centennial in 2007. Four artists, competitively selected from among...
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- 2018
To the Unknown
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Almereyda’s reading of Kenneth Koch’s “To the Unknown” transforms footage of the everyday into a moving tribute to one of the...
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- 2013
Giving Up the Ghost
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A visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.
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- 2020
The Lonedale Operator
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The writings and movie memories of renowned poet John Ashbery are refracted in a kaleidoscope of film clips that open up an illuminating dialogue...
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- 2013
Skinningrove
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A photographer shares unpublished images chronicling time spent among the 'fiercely independent' residents of a remote English fishing village.
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- 2008
Paradise
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Michael Almereyda’s Paradise is a poignant and surprising sketchbook, a collection of brief episodes captured during a decade of travel. The...
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- 2016
Three for the Road
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Interview with director Wim Wenders conducted and edited by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.
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- 2003
A Brief History of Surrealism
A Brief History of Surrealism02003HD
André Breton, the great leader of the surrealist revolution, is still alive and he is in New York! Filmed with Almereyda's favourite...
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- 2023
Nightmare Paint
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- 1993
Aliens
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Two young boys discuss their favorite movies and the nature of "passive resistance" while playing a video game.
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