Michael Nyman Movies

Peter Greenaway remembers his first meeting with Rotterdam Film Festival director Hubert Bals.

In the 16th century, the daughter of a Spanish nobleman joins a convent and becomes a spiritual leader.

Alice is a promising young artist in Paris. Her boyfriend Franck, a boxer, has just moved in to her attic flat. Then her sister Elsa, a bored...

Two show-business women leave Los Angeles for Las Vegas, but phoney state troopers abduct them in the desert and they are taken to a...

Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19...

The hour before actors go on stage at the National Theatre in London is a performance in and of itself.

A hot, thirsty man in the desert is tormented when the things he needs drop from the sky only to disappear again or hover out of his reach.

An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the...

In 1263, King James I of Aragon organizes a debate between representatives of Judaism and Christianity regarding whether or not Jesus was the Messiah.

The year is 1904; the setting is Cockshute Towers, one of England's stateliest homes. When the household is threatened with bankruptcy, both the...

People claim to know an amnesiac who finds herself in a hotel with a suitcase full of cash.

Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt...

Ute Lemper sings a collection of art songs by Michael Nyman based on texts by Paul Celan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare and Arthur...

A film made for the Central Office of Information concerning Britain's coastline, with music by Michael Nyman.

Three criminals pledge to free the soul of their friend from his gibbeted corpse in this short film based on 'The Highwayman' by Lord Dunsany.

During 1950, Miguel Contreras Torres led a group of filmmakers to officially denounce William O. Jenkins' monopoly on film theaters, which was built...

Film which explores the relationship of man to water, his mastery of the fear of drowning and accomplishments in swimming.

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

A film about fragility; about a man obsessed with photographing the accident who discovered that the fate of others was his way of connecting to...

A numerical journey through the quaint village of Goole.