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Michael Nyman
Michael Laurence Edward Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944, Stratford, London) is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, perhaps best known for the many movie scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi...
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Six Celan Songs / The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi
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String Quartets 2, 3 & 4 - If & Why (Lyric Quartet)
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- Michael Nyman
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The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover
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- Michael Nyman
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- Soundtrack
The Essential Michael Nyman Band
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- Michael Nyman
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- Compilation album
The Piano Concerto / Where the Bee Dances (Ulster Orchestra, feat. conductor: Takuo Yuasa)
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- Michael Nyman
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Drowning by Numbers
Drowning by Numbers is a 1988 British film directed by Peter Greenaway. It was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.
The film's plot centers on three women — a grandmother, mother and daughter — each named Cissie Colpitts. As the story...
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- Michael Nyman
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- 1988
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Ravenous
Ravenous is a 1999 horror/drama film directed by Antonia Bird and starring Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle and Jeffrey Jones. The film revolves around cannibalism in 1840s California and some elements bear similarities to the story of the Donner Party...
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- Damon Albarn,
- Michael Nyman
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- Soundtrack
The Draughtsman's Contract
The Draughtsman's Contract is a 1982 British film written and directed by Peter Greenaway. Originally produced for Channel 4 the film is a form of murder mystery, set in 1694. The period setting is reflected in Michael Nyman's score, which borrows...
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- Michael Nyman
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- 1982
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Prospero's Books
Prospero's Books (1991), written and directed by Peter Greenaway, is a cinematic adaptation of The Tempest, by William Shakespeare. John Gielgud is Prospero, the protagonist who provides the off-screen narration and the voices to the other story...
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- Michael Nyman
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- Nov 12, 1991
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A Zed & Two Noughts
A Zed & Two Noughts (A.K.A. Z00) is a 1985 film written and directed by Peter Greenaway.
The plot centres on twin brothers, Oswald and Oliver Deuce, whose wives are killed in a car accident. The brothers enter a relationship with Alba Bewick, the...
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- Michael Nyman
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- 1985
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Enemy Zero
Enemy Zero (E0) is a video game for Sega Saturn, developed by the company WARP and directed by WARP founder Kenji Eno. After its Saturn release, it was later ported to Microsoft Windows. It was the second game to star the digital actress Laura.
E0...
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- Michael Nyman
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- Apr 18, 1997
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The Libertine
The Libertine is a 2004 movie starring Johnny Depp, John Malkovich, Samantha Morton, and Rosamund Pike. It is directed by Laurence Dunmore (his debut film) from Stephen Jeffreys' adaptation of his play of the same name. Johnny Depp plays the main...
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- Michael Nyman
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The Claim
The Claim is a 2000 British Western/romance film directed by Michael Winterbottom. The screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce is loosely based on the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. The original music score is composed by Michael Nyman....
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- Michael Nyman
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- Jan 23, 2001
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Carrington
Carrington is a film released in 1995 about the life of the English artist Dora Carrington, who was known simply as Carrington.
The film, starring Emma Thompson in the title role, focuses on her unusual relationship with the author Lytton Strachey,...
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- Michael Nyman
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The Actors
The Actors is a 2003 film written and directed by Conor McPherson and starring Dylan Moran and Michael Caine. In supporting roles are Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson and Lena Headey .
The Actors is a contemporary comedy set in Dublin. It follows...
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- Michael Nyman
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- May 19, 2003
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À la folie
À la folie ("To Madness") (English: Six Days, Six Nights) is a 1994 film by Diane Kurys with music by Michael Nyman.
Two rival sisters, Alice and Elsa, have been apart for two years. Alice, a promising young artist, lives in an attic flat in Paris....
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- Michael Nyman
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Michael Nyman
Michael Nyman is the third album release by Michael Nyman and the second with the Michael Nyman Band, having previously contributed tracks to new music compilations. Most of the music was material from early films by Peter Greenaway such as "Bird...
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La Traversée de Paris
La Traversée de Paris (The Crossing of Paris) is an album by the Michael Nyman Band featuring music composed by Michael Nyman for an audio-visual exhibition of the same name which took place at the Grande Arche de la Défense from July to December...
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The Michael Nyman Songbook
The Michael Nyman Songbook is a collection of art songs by Michael Nyman based on texts by Paul Celan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare and Arthur Rimbaud. It was recorded as an album with Ute Lemper in 1991, and again as a concert film...
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- Michael Nyman,
- Ute Lemper
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- Mar 10, 1992
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Live
Live is a 1994 album by Michael Nyman and the Michael Nyman Band. It is Nyman's 24th release and the fifteenth with the Band. It is the first commercial live album by the band, which had previously performed live on the magazine release, "The...
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- Michael Nyman
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- Oct 18, 1994
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La Sept
La Sept (Société d'édition de programmes de télévision) was a French television broadcaster and production company created on 23 February 1986 to develop cultural and educational programming for transmission via the TDF 1 satellite.
In 1985, Georges...
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- Michael Nyman
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- Dec 1989
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The Piano
The Piano is the original soundtrack, on the Virgin Records label, of the 1993 Academy Award-winning film The Piano starring Holly Hunter (who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as "Ada McGrath" in this film), Harvey Keitel, Sam...
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- Michael Nyman
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- Oct 19, 1993
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- Soundtrack
The Ogre
The Ogre (German: Der Unhold) is a 1996 film based on the 1970 French novel by Michel Tournier, Le Roi des aulnes (English: The Ogre a.k.a. The Erl King). Directed by Volker Schlöndorff, it stars John Malkovich as a simple man who recruits children...
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- Michael Nyman
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- 1996
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Wonderland
Wonderland is a 1999 drama film about the lives of a London couple, their three adult daughters and absent son. Directed by Michael Winterbottom, the film stars Jack Shepherd, Kika Markham, Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, Molly Parker and Stuart...
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- Michael Nyman
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The End of the Affair
The End of the Affair is a 1999 drama film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore and Stephen Rea.
The film is based on The End of the Affair, a 1951 novel by British author Graham Greene.
Novelist Maurice Bendrix (Ralph...
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- Michael Nyman
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- Dec 7, 1999
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