Brian EnoFilmography

The Lovely Bones

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, Saoirse Ronan

Synopsis: Visionary Heavenly Creatures director Peter Jackson teams with longtime collaborators Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens to adapt author Alice Sebold's best-selling novel concerning a murdered young girl who watches from heaven as her family attempts to cope with their devastating loss, and tracks her Read More

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

Actors: Scott Walker, Sara Kestelman, Brian Eno, Radiohead, Jarvis Cocker

Synopsis: Explore the life and career of a musical artist who penned some of the biggest hits of the 1960s before turning his back on fame and completely reinventing himself as a reclusive outsider artist. In the mid-'60s, few bands rose higher up the British pop charts than the Walker Brothers, and as the Read More

Boarding Gate

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Asia Argento, Michael Madsen, Carl Ng, Kelly Lin, Joana Preiss, Alex Descas, Kim Gordon

Synopsis: From director Olivier Assayas comes this erotic thriller starring Asia Argento as Sandra, a former prostitute, and Michael Madsen as Miles, her onetime pimp-turned-high-powered businessman. Brought back together after a separation, Sandra and Miles are reunited when Sandra returns to Paris after Read More

Daniel Lanois: Here Is What Is

Synopsis: Quebec-born artist/singer-songwriter/record producer/filmmaker Daniel Lanois explores the true nature of creativity by inviting the viewer into the very studio where he has recorded some of the best work of his illustrious career. To Lanois, improvisation is an essential part of creativity, and it Read More

Clean

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle, Jeanne Balibar, Don McKellar

Synopsis: A woman throws herself into a last-ditch struggle to conquer her demons in this gritty drama from director Olivier Assayas. Lee Hauser (James Johnston) is a faded rock star who lives with his wife, Emily Wang (Maggie Cheung), the former host of a European music video show, in a small town in Read More

Herbie Hancock: Possibilities

Actors: Herbie Hancock, Christina Aguilera, Sting, John Mayer, Raul Midón

Synopsis: Ordinary music soars to extraordinary heights as gifted keyboardist Herbie Hancock joins forces with a variety of well-known music superstars to offer a completely original listening experience. As Hancock collaborates with such artists as Paul Simon, Annie Lennox, Sting, and John Mayer, the Read More

Brian Eno: 77 Million Paintings

Actors: Brian Eno

Synopsis: The home video release Brian Eno: 77 Million Paintings - a piece of interactive performance art - must be accessed via computer. The PC will automatically generate original painting compounds by randomly assembling (into millions of possible onscreen combinations) selections from a large number of Read More

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Slavoj Zizek

Synopsis: Renowned pop philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek takes a closer look at the sexual history of films spanning the spectrum from Charlie Chaplain to David Lynch in filmmaker Sophie Fiennes' indulgent look at some of the silver screen's most sublime features. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: Political proverb states that a population in fear is a population that is easily controlled. In this documentary exploring the climate of fear that existed in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, filmmaker Adam Curtis explores the possibility that Western Read More

The Jacket

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Synopsis: A troubled war veteran tries to unlock his memories of a terrible crime in this stylish thriller, the first American project for British filmmaker John Maybury. In 1991, Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) was an American soldier serving in the Persian Gulf when he was shot in the head; pronounced dead by Read More

Fear X

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger, Stephen McIntyre, William Allen Young, Eugene M. Davis

Synopsis: A man searching for the truth about his wife's killer learns more than he wanted to know about her own private story in this powerful drama. Harry Cain (John Turturro) works as a security guard at a large shopping mall in Wisconsin. Harry's life takes a sudden and disturbing left turn when his Read More

Stop the War Coalition Benefit Concert Featuring Brian Eno

In the Ocean

Buddy Boy

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Aidan Gillen, Emmanuelle Seigner, Susan Tyrrell, Mark Boone, Jr., Harry Groener

Synopsis: In this bizarre drama that would seem to have "cult item" written all over it, Francis (Aidan Gillen) is a severely introverted young man with a speech impediment who shares a shabby apartment with his bedridden mother, Sal (Susan Tyrrell). Francis has developed certain voyeuristic tendencies Read More

The Million Dollar Hotel

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Smits, Peter Stormare

Synopsis: Legendary filmmaker Wim Wenders returns to the screen with this loosely structured murder mystery. The Million Dollar Hotel unites Wender's obsession with cool music, lost souls, and American trash culture. Set in 2001, the film opens with Tom Tom (Jeremy Davies) taking a flying leap off the roof Read More

Velvet Goldmine

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Toni Collette, Christian Bale, Eddie Izzard

Synopsis: At the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, American independent director Todd Haynes (Safe) received the "Artistic Achievement" award for this re-creation of the UK glam rock scene of the early '70s. Glam rock star Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), who does a character named Maxwell Demon, predicts his Read More

The Pillow Book

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Barbara Lott, Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata, Hideko Yoshida

Synopsis: Peter Greenaway directed this elliptical and visually intricate tale of the far side of erotic and intellectual attraction. As a girl, Nagiko would receive a special gift each year from her father: a calligrapher (Ken Ogata) who would carefully paint a poem on her face, as her aunt (Hideko Read More

Glitterbug

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This British film represents the farewell of author/director Derek Jarman who died of AIDS in March 1994. It is considered to be the companion piece to Jarman's film Blue. Without a traditional plot, the film chronicles Jarman's life before AIDS with a series of free-flowing images gleaned from Read More

Pavarotti & Friends Together for the Children of Bosnia

Actors: Luciano Pavarotti

Synopsis: Recorded live in opera legend Luciano Pavarotti's own home, this benefit concert for the war children of Bosnia includes performances from Pavarotti, Bono and The Edge, Brian Eno, Zucchero, Jovanotti, Simon Le Bon, Dolores O'Riordan, Meatloaf, Michael Bolton, The Chieftans, and Nenad Bach.  Read More

Luciano Pavarotti: Duets

Actors: Luciano Pavarotti, Bryan Adams, Andrea Bocelli, Bon Jovi, Bono

Synopsis: Per its title, this performance release features a compilation of famed tenor Luciano Pavarotti's duets; the duettists consist not of classical mainstays as one might expect, but pop stars such as Jon Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams, Lionel Richie and Elton John. Selections include Panis Angelicus with Read More

Brian Eno: Imaginary Landscapes

Synopsis: This program profiles the innovative musician Brian Eno. Originally a member of the band Roxy Music, Eno turned his visionary sights on the art world. Using his talents to create electronically generated music video art, Eno produced works that have been featured in art museums throughout the Read More

Words for the Dying

Actors: John Cale, Brian Eno

Synopsis: The documentary Words for the Dying follows director Rob Nilsson as he attempts to capture the working process between collaborators John Cale and Brian Eno while they record an album consisting of songs inspired by the poetry of Dylan Thomas. Everyone goes to Russia to record, but things grow Read More

Tong Tana - En Resa Till Borneos Inre

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Of all the forest-laden jungle locations in Southeast Asia, Maylasia's Borneo region was for a very long time one of the rainforests least damaged by the worldwide appetite for wood products. No longer. This documentary contrasts the earth-centered lives of the Penang, a rainforest tribe, through Read More

Isolde

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kim Jansson, Claus Flygare, Bodil Lassen

Synopsis: Isolde (Pia With is a lovely, sensitive girl, recently divorced from an ambitious and unscrupulous politician (Claus Flygare). She has grown fond of her gentle hunk of a boyfriend (Kim Jansson), a mercenary soldier who is in some trouble with the law. When Isolde's ex-husband finds out about this Read More

For All Mankind

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Sorting through nearly one hundred hours of film and sound recordings recovered from NASA, director Al Rienart has pieced together a seamless documentary commemorating man's landing on the moon. The film is a montage of images with voice-over interviews and comments from the participating Read More

Opera

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Christina Marsillach, Urbano Barberini, Daria Nicolodi, Ian Charleson, Antonella Vitale

Synopsis: The polar-opposite worlds of opera and horror collide in this gory giallo film from director Dario Argento. Christina Marsillach (Tom Hanks' romantic interest in Every Time We Say Goodbye) stars as Betty, a beautiful understudy who gets an unlikely break to play the female lead in a contemporary Read More

Heat and Sunlight

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Rob Nilsson, Consuelo Faust, Don Bajema, Raven de la Croix

Synopsis: Rob Nilsson both directed and starred in Heat and Sunlight. Nilsson plays a San Francisco photographer who has trouble curbing his obsessions. He falls in love with dancer Consuelo Faust, then is unable to shake off his violently jealous impulses when the ardor cools. The musical score by David Byrne Read More

Two Moon July

Static

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Keith Gordon, Amanda Plummer, Bob Gunton, Barton Heyman, Lily Knight

Synopsis: Keith Gordon plays a oddball loner who builds a very special kind of TV set. He claims he can tune in to images of Heaven, and all evidence points to the veracity of his claim. Gordon's eccentric religiosity attracts the attention of wacko evangelist Bob Gunton, who'd like to snatch the TV for his Read More

Dune

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Francesca Annis, Leo Cimino, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer, Linda Hunt, Kyle MacLachlan, Jürgen Prochnow

Synopsis: David Lynch wades through dark waters in his adaptation of Frank Herbert's cult science fiction novel. In condensing Herbert's rambling and complex book by eliminating characters and compacting events, Lynch succeeds in rendering the story incomprehensible to those unfamiliar with the novel and Read More

The Creation of the Universe

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Timothy Ferris is the host of this PBS special which takes a look at the scientific theories about the creation of our universe. Leading scientists examine clues about the origin and evolution of our universe. Amazing theories are explained by Nobel prize-winner Carlo Rubbia, Murray Gell-Man, and Read More

Frevel

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Peter Fleischmann, Isolde Barth, Balduin Baas

Synopsis: This is an unconvincing police drama about an inspector (Peter Fleischmann, also the director) who loses his grip on the rational world when he becomes emotionally involved with the worse kind of murderess -- a woman who killed her own child. The inspector normally tracks down the motivation for Read More

Hans: Het Leven Voor de Dood

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: As the 53 interviews in this documentary unfold, the viewer is brought to another time and place, a post-World War II subculture in which the arts, sexual liberation, and drugs were intermixed. Hans van Sweeden (1939-1963) was a poet and musician and part-time actor who embodied that lifestyle Read More

SL-1

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: On Jan. 3, 1961 a reactor at an Idaho testing station (SL-1) blew up, killing three operators immediately and spewing out radiation that left nearly 800 people exposed to future "radiation sickness." In 1981 when this documentary was filmed, several of those people had already contracted lung Read More

Plainsong

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jessica Nelson, Teresanne Joseph, Lyn Traverse, Steve Geiger, Sandon McCall

Synopsis: New Jersey convincingly stands in for Nebraska in the independently produced Plainsong. This historical vignette deals with the hardships awaiting the first plains settlers of the 19th century. Emphasis is given the travails of three women pioneers, played by Jessica Nelson, Teresanne Joseph and Lynn Traverse Read More

Egon Schiele - Exzess Under Bestrafung

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mathieu Carrière, Jane Birkin, Christine Kaufmann, Kristina van Eyck

Synopsis: The strange life of Austrian painter Egon Schiele, one of the fathers of expressionism, is chronicled in this dramatic biography. He began his career during his stint as a soldier in WWI. He gained notoriety for his pornographic nudes and was eventually arrested for creating them. At the same Read More

The Falls

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Peter Greenaway

Synopsis: After cutting his teeth on 14 years' worth of short subjects, director Peter Greenaway made his feature-film debut with the pseudo-documentary The Falls. The added length does nothing to dilute Greenaway's singular sense of the absurd. The story, if one can truly call it that, deals with a Read More

Jubilee

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Jenny Runacre, Jordan, Nell Campbell, Linda Spurrier

Synopsis: Steeped in the nihilistic philosophy and rebellious fashions of the British punk movement, this early feature by experimental filmmaker Derek Jarman presents an unusual look at late 1970s London. The bulk of Jubilee focuses on a loosely connected group of female outcasts, united by a hatred of Read More

Land of the Minotaur

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Brian Eno composed the score for this horror tale about a cult (led by Peter Cushing) which kidnaps Greek tourists for their ritual murders. Also known as Minotaur and The Devil's Men. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Sebastiane

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Leonardo Treviglio, Barney James, Neil Kennedy, Richard Warwick

Synopsis: Filmed entirely in vulgar Latin, this experimental film recounts the life of Sebastiane, a puritanical but beautiful Christian soldier in the Roman Imperial troops who is martyred when he refuses the homosexual advances of his pagan captain. When this film was released, it was the only Read More

Vertical Features Remake

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Brian Eno: Excerpt from the Khumba Nela

Synopsis: Take a trip through the Kahmir waterway accompanied by the stirring sounds of Eno and Budd. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Brian Eno: Mistaken Memories of Mad Manhattan

Synopsis: A piece of video art focused on the New York City skyline. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

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