Michael Nyman
Birthday: 1944-03-23
Place of Birth: Stratford, London, England, UK
Biography: Michael Nyman is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway) and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano.
Movies
9 Songs
Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as...
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Michael Nyman in Progress
Featuring unprecedented access to Michael Nyman's working life, this film shows one of the great com...
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The Man Who Saw Too Much
A film about fragility; about a man obsessed with photographing the accident who discovered that the...
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Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
A comic drama about the weird and wonderful world of Salvador Dali and the Surrealists. This film ch...
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NYman with a Movie Camera
Is as much a celebration of the world as its inspiration, Dziga Vertov's silent masterpiece, "Man Wi...
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I Sold My Cadillac to Diana Dors: The Edmundo Ros Story
Engaging profile of legendary band leader, Edmundo Ros, who brought Latin American music to England ...
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Desert Passion
Two show-business women leave Los Angeles for Las Vegas, but phoney state troopers abduct them in th...
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