Michael Almereyda

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Michael Almereyda (born April 7, 1959 or 1960 in Overland Park , Kansas ) is an American director and screenwriter.

Life

Almereyda's film debut is the short film A Hero Of Our Time (1985) with Dennis Hopper . This was followed by the quirky film Twister (1989) with Harry Dean Stanton . Another Girl Another Planet (1992) received an Honorable Mention from the National Society of Film Critics as a successful experimental film. The black and white vampire film Nadja (1994) was produced by David Lynch , who said: “ I made this film because of Michael Almereyda. [...] I am happy to support him, because for me he is one of the best independent New Wave directors in America. "

This was followed in 2000 by an adaptation of the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare and in 2005 he made the documentary William Eggleston in the Real World about the American photographer William Eggleston .

In 2018 he was appointed to the jury of the Orizzonti section at the 75th Venice International Film Festival .

Almereyda is the brother of actress Spencer Kayden .

Awards

Almereyda received the Fun Trophy at the Gérardmer Film Festival in 1994 for Nadja . For the same film he was nominated for the 1996 Independent Spirit Award for best director and for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival . In addition, he was honored for Nadja as best director at the Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya 1995. Trance received a nomination for best film at the same festival three years later. In 2000 Almereydas Hamlet was nominated for the Golden Leopard of the Locarno International Film Festival .

Filmography (selection)

Director

  • 1989: Twister - Not a normal family
  • 1994: Nadja
  • 1998: trance
  • 2000: Hamlet
  • 2002: Happy Here and Now
  • 2005: William Eggleston in the Real World (documentary)
  • 2008: New Orleans, Mon Amour
  • 2014: Anarchy (Cymbeline)
  • 2015: Experimenter - The Stanley Milgram Story (Experimenter)
  • 2017: Marjorie Prime
  • 2017: Escapes (documentary)
  • 2020: Tesla

Screenwriter

Short films

  • 1985: A Hero Of Our Time
  • 1993: Aliens
  • 1998: The Rocking Horse Winner
  • 2011: The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes
  • 2012: The Ogre's Feathers
  • 2013: The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
  • 2018: The North Wind's Gift

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Almereyda. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved July 21, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Michael Almereyda. In: Senses of Cinema. Retrieved July 21, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Robert Fischer : David Lynch - The dark side of the soul . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1997. pp. 262f
  4. ↑ Robert Fischer: David Lynch - The dark side of the soul . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1997. p. 262
personal data
SURNAME Almereyda, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Overland Park , Kansas, United States