REVIEWS
Michael Almereyda's portrait of world-renowned photographer William Eggleston doesn't make any easily readable links between the artist's work and his life as pic shuttles...
Variety
We'll say goodbye to all our bad habits, our bad thoughts, bad dreams.
- Trance (The Eternal)
IMAGES
from: Twister (1989)

About MICHAEL ALMEREYDA

The first time I heard of Michael Almereyda, I was talking to a friend about going to see a movie. She had heard about this film Nadja, it was something of a quirky vampire film. At the time, I was all of 18, a freshman in college; this didn’t strike me as something I was interested in. About two years and several Intro to Film courses later, I once again stumbled upon Nadja. This time I watched and was engulfed in a film that had such a unique look: it utilized stark black and white photography mixed with pixilated footage from a Fisher-Price toy camera. In addition to the visuals, the sound design and music in the film was amazing, as was the writing. I was impressed, and more importantly, inspired.

I could go on in depth about each of Almereyda’s films, but that’s actually the point of the site itself: to offer a focused but wide-ranging look at Almereyda’s work, gathering together a variety of information, commentary and reviews. What I can say is that when you watch a film by Michael Almereyda, you can tell. His films are often surreal, dabbling in dark comedy. His characters are multi-dimensional. Hope and beauty, and the tangled relationships between people, are recurrent themes. He uses sound and music as character. His fascination with innovation always shows through, not as a sign of rebellion against standard Hollywood practice, but as an impulse to tell stories in an exciting way, to see things from a fresh perspective.

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