How often do you think about dolphins? It's a topic worth turning over, which makes especially valuable (deep breath as I say the title) John Lilly and the Ear...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Rotterdam coverage. The film opens in theaters on March 27.
The first time I came across the ...
It is not without possibility that John C. Lilly was so strange, complex, and plainly fascinating a figure that it took two of the most adventurous working fil...
Could a director be best-known for what's hardly been seen in 30-plus years? Notwithstanding the superb, modernized Hamlet—itself in less-than-prime circulatio...
Though it is often pegged to David Lynch, who financed the film and makes a fun cameo, Nadja is really a showcase par excellence for Michael Almereyda, long on...
It could be a result of living abroad, or that a good producer’s work is often defined by their ability to stay quiet, but Rodrigo Teixeira has perhaps become ...
Shakespeare adaptations are not the surest commercial prospect; asking audiences to show for a contemporary riff on one of the Bard's lesser-known plays is ano...
If it's been a patchy few years for Errol Morris––one solid doc in-between a bad Steve Bannon portrait and iffy look at John le Carré––our interest in his thor...
Have we enough evidence to name Michael Almereyda the American cinema's greatest biographer? It's a narrow range and hardly the highest bar to clear, yet his o...
One of our most-anticipated films heading into Sundance Film Festival this year was Tesla, the latest film by the always inventive Michael Almereyda. As one ca...
