Michael Nyman - biography

“I’m not saying that there weren’t other inherent problems with the score that couldn’t have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular?”

“There’s always a question of duration, there’s a question of who the orchestra is.  No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else’s work is motivating you.”

“I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine.”

“I’m like a decathlete who does all of the events he’s used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn’t that interested in, and also weren’t his strongest events.”

Michael Nyman composed the score for the following films:
5 Postcards from Capital Cities (1967)
Goole by Numbers (1976)
Keep It Up Downstairs (1976)
1-100 (1978)
A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist (1978)
Vertical Features Remake (1978)
Zandra Rhodes (1979)
The Falls (1980)
Terence Conran (1981)
The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982)
The Coastline (1983)
Nelly’s Version (1983)
Making a Splash (1984)
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire, 1985 (1985)
Le Miraculé (1987)
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Fear of Drowning (1988)
Hubert Bals Handshake (1989)
Monsieur Hire (1989)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989)
Le Mari de la coiffeuse (1990)
Les Enfants volants (1990)
Prospero’s Books (1991)
The Piano (1993)
À la folie (1994)
Mesmer (1994)
Carrington (1995)
Der Unhold (1996)
Gattaca (1997)
The End of the Affair (1999)
Ravenous (1999)
The Claim (2000)
La Stanza del figlio (2001)
Subterrain (2001)
24 heures de la vie d’une femme (2002)
Nathalie... (2003)
The Actors (2003)
Luminal (2004)
The Libertine (2004)