Movies: Michael Almereyda

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

Michael Almereyda’s Paradise is a poignant and surprising sketchbook, a collection of brief episodes captured during a decade of travel. The film is marked by a sense of mystery, wonderment, and sly humor, reflecting a notion of life as a series of e...

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....

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....

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

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

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

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....

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...

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....

A visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda....

A photographer shares unpublished images chronicling time spent among the 'fiercely independent' residents of a remote English fishing village....

In this essay on Babette's Feast, filmmaker Michael Almereyda charts the path from Isak Dinesen’s story to Gabriel Axel’s film, taking detours along the way into art history, philosophy, and the author’s life in Africa....

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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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 New York School’s most treasured and inventive poets. - NYFF...