The Hamlet Weblog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
New York Magazine interviews Julia Stiles , Ophelia in the Michael Almereyda film with Ethan Hawke . I'd always assumed that her colonisation of the Shakespearean teen films was by design. Seems not: "The actress has gotten flack for protesting too much, for seeming to imply she’s too good for her fans or her early roles. It’s true that her career-making films had loftier aspirations...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
Michael Almereyda's most recent feature film, Paradise (2009), is presented at The Museum of Modern Art in a weeklong engagement in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2 from September 24 through 30, 2009.
Twitch (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
It is certainly appropriate and easy enough to call Michael Almereyda's latest a documentary. But what is it a document of? If you are asking yourself this whilst watching PARADISE and getting stuck on it, then well, you probably won't enjoy the film. Almereyda, a filmmaker who has trudged through the woes of financing and distribution, to come out with an eclectic, often elusive, and sensual catalog...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
Michael Almereyda’s “Paradise” is essentially a series of home movies, but home movies of a very high order.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
Let's forget about narrative for now, shall we? Let's not focus on narrative, let's live in the moment. And let's consider a documentary focused on...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
The opening night of the nonnarrative Michael Almereyda film. Now through Sept. 30. For more information, call 212-397-6980 or visit www.moma.org. ...
Bluegrass Film Society (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
Real sex: aesthetics and economics of art-house porn by Jon Lewis Jump Cut ... Romance proved to be part of a late 20th century/early 21st century trend of hard(er)-core foreign-made films: * Francois Ozone's Sitcom (1998), * Lars von Trier's The Idiots (1998), * Leo Carax's Pola X (1999), * Jang sun Woo's Lies (1999), * Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi's Baise Moi (2000), * Patrice Chereau's...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 18/08/2009
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Almereyda's most recent feature film, Paradise (2009), is presented at The Museum of Modern Art in a weeklong engagement in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2 from September 24 through 30, 2009. It is organized by Joshua Siegel, Associate Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art. Paradise is a beautiful, audacious sketchbook, a collection of fragmentary episode
Girish (Free subscription) | 30/07/2009
Zach Campbell and I have co-edited and participated in a series of letters on blogging, cinephilia and the Internet. The letters appear in a new collection out from Wallflower Press (distributed in the US by Columbia University Press) called Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction , edited by Scott Balcerzak and Jason Sperb. Also taking part in our letter relay were bloggers Dan Sallitt, Brian...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Every day seems to bring a new channel for delivering great, unheralded film right to your television or laptop. The latest is Film Buff, a video-on-demand channel run by Cinetic, and overseen by Matt Dentler , former producer of the legend that is Austin's SXSW. Variety has the details great and small. I can't describe this channel better than Cinetic president John Sloss, who says its "as if...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
Indie Roundup reviews the past week of news from the independent film community and provides a peek at what's coming soon. Opening . Three indie flicks open on Friday: Jeffrey Levy-Hinte's terrific music doc Soul Power , Chris Nahon's live-action adaptation of anime horror thriller Blood: The Last Vampire , and a reissue of Francois Truffaut's 1969 crime romance Mississippi Mermaid , with Jean-Paul...
Live for Films (Free subscription) | 16/06/2009
Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke talked with Movieline about her plans for the Emile Hirsch-led contemporary update of Hamlet at the recent Young Hollywood Awards. Tone wise, Hardwicke says "It's really like a thriller. From the day Hamlet's father dies, three days later eight people are dead and a ghost is telling him to murder for revenge so we're doing it as a suspense thriller"....
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 16/04/2009
Night Wraps the Sky Vladimir Mayakovsky; edited by Michael Almereyda Farrar Straus Giroux, 304pp, £14 Vladimir Mayakovsky died twice. First, he shot himself in morning dress, leaving behind a poem explaining that “The love boat of life/has crashed on philistine reefs/Now you and I are quits”. Shortly afterwards he died symbolically, when Stalin decreed that indifference to the Russian...
datastream.irregulara (Free subscription) | 26/02/2009
Michael Almereyda (William Eggleston and the Real World [2005]) shot this interview/doc with Eggleston at the opening of his recent retrospective at The Whitney, William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008. (Please open the article to see the flash file or player.)
ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 20/02/2009
Imagine each of us arrives in this life equipped with a kino-eye, and that we’re given the task of producing a mix-tape of our favorite sights and impressions. Michael Almereyda has turned in his first draft of the assignment, Paradise, and it’s a film intoxicated by the exponential possibilities of its form. Bookended by images of moving walkways—the obvious symbol of time propelling...
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