Michael Almereyda

Michael Almereyda
Michael Almereydais an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His most well known work is Hamlet, starring Ethan Hawke...
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth29 September 1960
feature whether
Whether it would be a feature film or not I didn't know.
Why not be silent, patient, and watchful like a photographer?
emotion fear poised unbalanced
an unbalanced emotion poised between fear and love.
eye advice heard
I've always been fond of the advice I once heard from Robert Frank, "Keep your eyes open."
halloween skulls skeletons
Pop culture is more and more about skulls and skeletons and zombies and vampires, and that's not just on Halloween.
children humble flames
Gerry Fialka's annual PXL THIS is a reliably surprising and seductive round-up of recent work achieved with the PXL 2000 camera. This humble outdated “toy” continues to bring out the visionary child in filmmakers and viewers alike, and no one has kept the PXL flame burning longer or brighter than Gerry.
meaningful strong loss
It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities.