Michael Almereyda Movies

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...

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.

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.

John C. Lilly is the inventor of the isolation tank, as well as pioneer of studies in dolphin intelligence and support of psychedelics as a positive...

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

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...

Documentary about William Eggleston, a famous modern American photographer.

Michael Almereyda’s Paradise is a poignant and surprising sketchbook, a collection of brief episodes captured during a decade of travel. The...

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

In this essay on Babette's Feast, filmmaker Michael Almereyda charts the path from Isak Dinesen’s story to Gabriel Axel’s film, taking...

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

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...

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

Escapes blazes a path through mid-20th-century Hollywood via the experiences of Hampton Fancher – flamenco dancer, actor, and the unlikely...

A visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.

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

Almereyda’s reading of Kenneth Koch’s “To the Unknown” transforms footage of the everyday into a moving tribute to one of the...

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

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

Four short films were created in honor of artist residency program MacDowell's Centennial in 2007. Four artists, competitively selected from among...