| 词条 | Michael Almereyda |
| 释义 |
| image = | name = Michael Almereyda | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|4|7}} | birth_place = Overland Park, Kansas, U.S. | birth_name = | yearsactive = 1985–present | occupation = {{flatlist|
}} Michael Almereyda (born 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His best known work is Hamlet (2000), starring Ethan Hawke. Early workAlmereyda studied art history at Harvard but dropped out after three years to pursue filmmaking. He acquired a Hollywood agent on the strength of a spec script about Nicola Tesla. His first film as writer/director was a self-financed, black-and-white short featuring Dennis Hopper, A Hero of Our Time, based on Mikhail Lermontov’s novel of the same title. Shot in 1985, it was finished in 1987 and screened in the 1992 Sundance Film Festival. Early screenplays include Cherry 2000 (1987), the first draft for Wim Wenders’ Until the End of the World (1991), and uncredited work on Total Recall (1990). Almereyda’s films range across many genres, styles, and formats. His first feature, Twister (1989), based on Mary Robison’s novel Oh, was a comedy about a dysfunctional mid-Western family. Another Girl Another Planet (1992) was a romantic chamber piece, a black-and-white, one-hour featurette shot with a Fisher-Price Pixelvision camera.[1] Nadja (1994) was a comic vampire film shot on 35mm with Pixelvision inserts. Hamlet (2000) was shot on Super 16mm and featured Ethan Hawke, Bill Murray, Kyle MacLachlan, Julia Stiles, Liev Schreiber and Sam Shepard. The adaptation layered a contemporary New York setting on Shakespeare’s text. 2000sAlmereyda directed features set in pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans: Happy Here and Now (2002) and New Orleans, Mon Amour (2008). In 2004, he directed an episode of the HBO series Deadwood, His most recent work has mainly involved documentaries and shorts. William Eggleston in the Real World (2005) was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary from the Independent Filmmaker Project,[2][3] as was the sketchbook film Paradise (2009). Marjorie Prime (2017) won the Sloan Feature Film Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.[4]Almereyda edited and contributed texts for Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and About Mayakovsky, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2008, and William Eggleston: For Now, published by Twin Palms in 2010. He has written criticism and commentary for The New York Times, Film Comment, Artforum, Bookforum, The Believer, and Triple Canopy. In 2015 Almereyda received the Moving Image Creative Capital Award.[5] Partial filmography{{col-begin}}{{col-break}}
References1. ^http://michael-almereyda.squarespace.com/ 2. ^1 "Gotham Awards Nominations Announced {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314002444/http://filmmakermagazine.com/2046-gotham-awards-nominations-announced/ |date=2014-03-14 }}", Filmmaker (magazine). Accessed 8 August 2014. 3. ^1 "'Brokeback,' 'Capote' Get Gotham Award Nods", Fox News Channel. Accessed 8 August 2014. 4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://scienceandfilm.org/articles/2846/marjorie-prime-sloan-sundance-jury-on-2017-prize-winner|title=Sloan Science & Film|website=scienceandfilm.org|language=en|access-date=2017-02-03}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://creative-capital.org/projects/view/797|title=Creative Capital - Investing in Artists who Shape the Future|website=creative-capital.org|accessdate=25 May 2017}} External links
6 : American film directors|American male screenwriters|Harvard University alumni|1960 births|Living people|Guggenheim Fellows |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。