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Michael Nyman is a Actor, Sound and Thanks born on 23 march 1944 at London (United-kingdom)

Michael Nyman

Michael Nyman
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Birth 23 march 1944 (80 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Awards Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Michael Nyman, né à Stratford, Londres le 23 mars 1944, est un compositeur, pianiste, librettiste et musicologue anglais essentiellement connu pour ses musiques de films, dont la plupart des films de Peter Greenaway, La Fin d'une liaison de Neil Jordan, Bienvenue à Gattaca d'Andrew Niccol ou La Leçon de piano de Jane Campion. Il compose également pour le spectacle vivant, opéras ou ballets, ainsi que pour divers ensembles instrumentaux. Il a collaboré avec de nombreux artistes et musiciens dont Carsten Nicolai ou Damon Albarn, chanteur des groupes Blur et Gorillaz.

Biography

Michael Nyman suit des études supérieures de musique à la ACS Royal Academy of Music et au King's College de Londres, étudiant le piano, le clavecin, et la musique baroque anglaise, dont certains éléments se retrouveront dans ses compositions. Mélomane, il commence sa carrière en tant que critique musical, se mêlant tant de musique savante et expérimentale que de musique populaire ou de rock. Il est le premier à appliquer le terme minimalisme au domaine de la musique.

Il ne se tourne véritablement vers la composition qu'en 1976, avec une première expérience dans la musique de scène et un arrangement de chants populaires vénitiens pour une comédie de l'auteur italien Carlo Goldoni. C'est également en 1976 qu'il crée son propre ensemble, qui, avant d'être The Michael Nyman Band, s'appelait The Campiello Band. Sa collaboration avec le cinéaste Peter Greenaway, amorcée par quelques courts métrages à la fin des années 1960, se concrétise réellement avec le film Meurtre dans un jardin anglais en 1982.

Ses recherches musicologiques aboutissent à la publication, en 1974, du livre Experimental Music - Cage and Beyond, ouvrage théorique qui fait autorité dans le domaine de la musique contemporaine.

Sa musique trouve son inspiration dans la musique baroque anglaise et des compositeurs comme Haendel ou Purcell tout autant que dans la musique minimaliste ou répétitive de compositeurs contemporains comme Philip Glass, comme la longue pièce Memorial dans Le Cuisinier, le voleur, sa femme et son amant.

Son expression artistique s'est diversifiée depuis 2008, avec la publication d'un recueil de photographies, Sublime, et l'exposition de photographies et de courts métrages dans une galerie d'art anglaise.

Best films

The Piano (1993)
(Original Music Composer)
The End of the Affair (1999)
(Original Music Composer)
Man on Wire (2008)
(Music)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Michael Nyman (40 films)

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Sound

Monsieur Hire, 1h21
Directed by Patrice Leconte
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, André Wilms, Luc Thuillier, Cristiana Reali, Philippe Dormoy
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating74% 3.7454353.7454353.7454353.7454353.745435
Monsieur Hire, a misanthropic and voyeuristic tailor, spies on his gorgeous neighbour Alice from across the street. The development of their relationship takes place against the backdrop of another plot, the unsolved murder of a local young woman. Monsieur Hire is hounded by a detective investigating the murder and is also eventually noticed by Alice. Hire propositions Alice to ditch her boyfriend Emile and run off with him to his little home in Switzerland, where he promises to take care of her.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, 2h4
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Cooking films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Tim Roth, Gary Olsen
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating74% 3.748983.748983.748983.748983.74898
English gangster Albert Spica has taken over the high-class Le Hollandais Restaurant, run by French chef Richard Boarst. Spica makes nightly appearances at the restaurant with his retinue of thugs. His oafish behavior causes frequent confrontations with the staff and his own customers, whose patronage he loses, but whose money he seems not to miss.
Drowning by Numbers, 1h58
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Horror, Crime
Actors Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, Bernard Hill, Bryan Pringle, Trevor Cooper
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating71% 3.597733.597733.597733.597733.59773
The film's plot centres on three married women — a grandmother, her daughter, and her niece — each named Cissie Colpitts. As the story progresses, each woman successively drowns her husband. The three Cissie Colpittses are played by Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson and Joely Richardson, while Bernard Hill plays the coroner, Madgett, who is cajoled into covering up the three crimes.
A Zed & Two Noughts, 1h55
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Andréa Ferréol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Frances Barber, Joss Ackland, Geoffrey Palmer
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating71% 3.5977353.5977353.5977353.5977353.597735
Twin zoologists Oswald and Oliver Deuce (Brian Deacon and Eric Deacon) are at work studying the behaviour of animals at a zoo, when their wives are killed in a car accident involving a large swan. The woman who was driving the car, Alba Bewick (Andréa Ferréol), is not killed, but has a leg amputated.
The Cold Room, 1h35
Directed by James Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Time travel films
Actors George Segal, Amanda Pays, Renée Soutendijk, Warren Clarke, Anthony Higgins, Elizabeth Spriggs
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating50% 2.5227152.5227152.5227152.5227152.522715
Carla Martin (Amanda Pays) is leaving an English parochial boarding school for the summer to live with her estranged father at an inn in East Berlin. The headmistress (Ursula Howells), a nun, gives her a 1936 guide to Berlin, telling her she may find it useful, even though Berlin has surely changed as much as she has. Her best friend, Sophie (Lucy Hornack), gives her a bag of marijuana.
The Sea in Their Blood
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Genres Documentary
Roles Music
Rating69% 3.495213.495213.495213.495213.49521
The Draughtsman's Contract, 1h43
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical, Crime, Romance
Themes Peinture, Films about sexuality
Actors Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert, Hugh Fraser, David Meyer, Dave Hill
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating71% 3.598193.598193.598193.598193.59819
Mr. Neville (Anthony Higgins), a young and arrogant artist and something of a Byronic hero, is contracted to produce a series of 12 landscape drawings of an estate, by Mrs. Virginia Herbert (Janet Suzman) for her absent and estranged husband. Part of the contract is that Mrs. Herbert agrees "to meet Mr. Neville in private and to comply with his requests concerning his pleasure with me." Several sexual encounters between them follow, each of them acted in such a way as to emphasise reluctance or distress on the part of Mrs Herbert and sexual aggression or insensitivity on the part of Mr Neville. Whilst living on the estate, Mr. Neville gains quite a reputation with its dwellers, especially with Mrs. Herbert's son-in-law, Mr.
The Falls
The Falls (1980)
, 3h15
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy
Actors Peter Greenaway
Roles Music
Rating71% 3.5933753.5933753.5933753.5933753.593375
The world has been struck by a mysterious incident called the "Violent Unknown Event" or VUE, which has killed many people and left a great many survivors suffering from a common set of symptoms: mysterious ailments (some appearing to be mutations of evolving into a bird-like form), dreaming of water (categorised by form, such as Category 1, Flight, or Category 3, Waves) and becoming obsessed with birds and flight. Many of the survivors have been gifted with new languages. They have also stopped aging, making them immortal (barring disease or injury).
Man with a Movie Camera, 1h20
Directed by Dziga Vertov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Films about films
Actors Mikhail Kaufman
Roles Music
Rating82% 4.144494.144494.144494.144494.14449
Une journée de la vie quotidienne à Odessa: un opérateur filme, une monteuse visionne ses images, des spectateurs regardent le film qui est fait.

Team

9 Songs
9 Songs (2004)
, 1h9
Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance, Pornographic
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Kieran O'Brien, Margo Stilley, Michael Nyman
Roles Thanks
Rating47% 2.3595452.3595452.3595452.3595452.359545
The film tells the modern love story set over a period of 12 months in London, England, of a young couple: Matt, a British climatologist, and Lisa, an American exchange student. The story is framed in a personal review from Matt's perspective when he is working in Antarctica. Their main common interest is a passion for live music and they frequently attend rock concerts together. The film depicts the couple, or Matt alone, watching nine songs at Brixton Academy and other concert venues. It also shows their weekend getaway into the countryside, and their travels around London. Lisa brings their short and intense relationship to an end at Christmas time when she returns to the United States.