Philip Glass Filmography

Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Philip Glass

Synopsis: Shine director Scott Hicks documents a year in the life of prolific composer Philip Glass in order to explore the work that goes into creating a symphony and offer a detailed overview of his subject's remarkable career. Glass may be a composer whose name is virtually synonymous with the minimalist Read More

Cassandra's Dream

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Hayley Atwell, Colin Farrell, Sally Hawkins, Ewan McGregor, Tom Wilkinson

Synopsis: Director Woody Allen continued to work in the dark mold of his 2005 thriller Match Point with this suspenseful tale of two brothers (Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor) transformed into mortal enemies after scheming to alleviate their financial difficulties by turning to crime. Ian (McGregor) and Read More

The Dalai Lama: Peace and Prosperity

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: His Holiness the Dali Lama visits Radio City Music Hall makes a rare appearance at Radio City Music Hall, and the cameras are rolling to capture every moment of the event for those who were unable to attend the sold-out event. Interwoven throughout the program are photographic montages by Richard Read More

Les Animaux Amoreux

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Translated literally as "Animals in Love," the French-language documentary Animaux Amoreux depicts various species of the animal kingdom in courting, mating and reproduction activities. Laurent Charbonnier directs. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide Read More

No Reservations

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin, Patricia Clarkson, Jennifer Wade

Synopsis: Carol Fuchs adapts writer/director Sandra Nettelbeck's screenplay for the 2001 romantic drama Mostly Martha for this Scott Hicks directed remake starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, and Patricia Clarkson. Kate Armstrong (Jones) is the master chef who is equally intense both in and out of Read More

The Reaping

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, Idris Elba, AnnaSophia Robb, Stephen Rea

Synopsis: Her faith shaken by a family tragedy from which she was never quite able to fully recover, a professor of theology from Louisiana State University moonlighting as a debunker of unexplained religious phenomena finds herself faced with an apocalyptic series of events that seem to reflect the ten Read More

The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

Actors: Emmylou Harris, Nick Cave, Elvis Costello, Philip Glass, Bob Neuwirth

Synopsis: Few musical archivists have worked as tirelessly to preserve American folk music as Harry Smith, and with this documentary filmmaker Rani Singh offers an illuminating look at the lasting impact of Smith's landmark release {^Anthology of American Folk Music}. Originally released as a compilation of Read More

The Inner Life of Martin Frost

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: David Thewlis, Irène Jacob, Michael Imperioli, Sophie Auster, Paul Auster, Griffin Dunne

Synopsis: A successful American novelist who has retreated into the country following the publication of his most recent book meets a most mysterious muse in director/screenwriter Paul Auster's elliptic psychological drama. His latest novel an instant success, famous author Martin Frost (David Thewlis) Read More

Chuck Close

Actors: Janet Fish, Robert Rauschenberg, Leslie Close, Alex Katz, Elizabeth Murray

Synopsis: Chuck Close travels into the world of one of the late 20th and early 21st century's most highly singular visual artists. The eponymous subject of the title opted, early on, to exclusively devote all of his time and creative energy to constructing massive human likenesses, "deconstructed" into Read More

Notes on a Scandal

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy, Andrew Simpson, Phil Davis

Synopsis: Lust, jealousy, and revenge come cloaked in the guise of friendship in this psychological drama. Barbara Covett (Judi Dench) is a history teacher at a high school in London; while elderly Barbara is very bright, she's also severe and domineering, with a strong personality that tends to put people Read More

Absolute Wilson

Actors: Robert Wilson, Suzanne Wilson, David Byrne, Susan Sontag, Philip Glass

Synopsis: Filmmaker Katharina Otto-Bernstein offers a detailed look into the world of avant-garde theater icon Robert Wilson, whose visionary works and collaborations with such varied artists as Philip Glass, Allen Ginsberg, and Tom Waits have established him as one of the world's most respected theater Read More

The Illusionist

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel, Rufus Sewell, Eddie Marsan

Synopsis: A supernaturally talented magician attempts to undermine the rigid social structure of turn-of-the-century Vienna by using his powers to win the love of his upper-class, childhood sweetheart in director Neil Burger's cinematic adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steven Millhauser's short Read More

The Moustache

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Vincent Lindon, Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Hippolyte Girardot, Cylia Malki

Synopsis: "What would you think if I shaved my moustache?" asks Marc (Vincent Lindon) of his wife, Agnès (Emmanuelle Devos), one fateful night as they prepare to visit friends for dinner. She's never seen him without it, but while she goes to do some last-minute shopping, he impulsively shaves the moustache Read More

Refuge

Synopsis: Filmmaker John Halpern turns his lens toward central Asia to focus on the spiritual developments that have occurred in the West following the 1959 siege on Tibet with this film, which contrasts the Western gravitation toward Buddhism with the journey of Tibetan Buddhists to seek refuge in the West Read More

Roving Mars

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Paul Newman, Steve Squyres, Robert Manning, Dr. Charles Elachi, Wayne Lee

Synopsis: Mars is Earth's closest planetary neighbor, and for decades scientists have been curious about the so-called "Red Planet," wondering if it's possible that life exists there, how its soil and terrain differs from our own, and if water can be found. While sending a manned space mission to Mars has Read More

Faith's Corner

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Leleti Khumalo, Thobani Khybeka, Sibonelo Xulu, Ivy Nkutha

Synopsis: Controversial South African helmer Darrell James Roodt (Sarafina!, Yesterday), writes and directs the experimental melodrama Faith's Corner. The effort (which recalls and suggests influence by Ousmane Sembene's 1966 Borom Sarret) weaves the tale of an impoverished mother named Faith (Leleti Read More

Abused

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This 46 minute documentary takes a look at issues of domestic violence, murder, and how the legal process seeks to protect the right people. It follows the story of a woman named Susan Greenberg who killed her boyfriend in 1987, when she was 19, after enduring severe physical and emotional abuse. Read More

Neverwas

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Aaron Eckhart, Ian McKellen, Brittany Murphy, Nick Nolte, William Hurt

Synopsis: A man seeks to unlock the mysteries of his family's tragic past in this drama. Zach Riley (Aaron Eckhart) is a psychiatrist who has resigned a prestigious position at a major university to take a job at the Millwood Clinic, a private residential facility run by one Dr. Reed (William Hurt). Riley Read More

The Giant Buddhas

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Niloufar Pazira, Sayyed Mirza Hussain, Taysir Alony, Zemaryalai Tarzi

Synopsis: In the wake of the Taliban's call for the destruction of all non-Islamic-related statues in February of 2001, the world was robbed of two of its most remarkable landmarks. Despite international outrage, two stone Buddhas -- one measuring 53 meters tall -- were hastily turned to rubble by Islamic Read More

Undertow

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jamie Bell, Josh Lucas, Devon Alan, Dermot Mulroney, Shiri Appleby

Synopsis: Chris (Jamie Bell of Billy Elliot) is a volatile teen who lives with his father, John (Dermot Mulroney), and his little brother, Tim (Devon Alan). After the death of Chris' mother, his reclusive father moved the family to a shack in backwoods Georgia, where they raise hogs. Tim has an unusual Read More

Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Douglas Brinkley's best-selling novel Tour of Duty follows 2004 presidential hopeful John Kerry's years in Vietnam and goes on to illustrate his contribution to peace advocacy groups after being honorably discharged from the Navy. Both of these events, according to George Butler, Tour of Duty Read More

Taking Lives

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Tchéky Karyo, Olivier Martinez, Gena Rowlands

Synopsis: A female detective on the trail of a psychotic killer discovers love in a dangerous time in this thriller, based on the novel by Michael Pye. Illeana Scott (Angelina Jolie) is a special agent with the FBI who has a reputation for using offbeat methods, but also boasts a strong record as a criminal Read More

Secret Window

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: From writer/director David Koepp (Stir of Echoes) comes this filmed adaptation of Stephen King's novella Secret Window, Secret Garden, one of four stories in the collection Four Past Midnight. Johnny Depp stars as Mort Rainey, a recently divorced author who decides to take some time off at his Read More

The Fog of War

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert S. McNamara

Synopsis: Former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara is the sole focus of documentarian Errol Morris's The Fog of War, a film that not only analyzes McNamara's controversial decisions during the first half of the Vietnam War, but also his childhood upbringing, his education at Berkley and Harvard, his Read More

The Hours

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Toni Collette

Synopsis: Three women, separated by a span of nearly 80 years, find themselves weathering similar crises, all linked by a single work of literature in this film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Cunningham. In 1923, Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) is attempting to start work on her Read More

Naqoyqatsi

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter

Synopsis: Filmmaker, philosopher and activist Godfrey Reggio completes the film trilogy he began with Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi in this visually striking examination of the impact of technology upon our culture. Naqoyqatsi is a word from the Hopi language which roughly translates as "war as a way of Read More

Pandemic: Facing AIDS - Uganda

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Pandemic: Facing AIDS [TV Documentary Series]

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This ambitious, multipart cable documentary series detailed five different stories, from five different parts of the world, of how individuals dealt with HIV. Episodes included "Thailand," set in a Buddhist monastery that had been converted into an AIDS hospice; "Uganda," in which music therapy Read More

Pandemic: Facing AIDS - Thailand

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Pandemic: Facing AIDS - Brazil

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Pandemic: Facing AIDS - Russia

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

The Baroness and the Pig

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Patricia Clarkson, Caroline Dhavernas, Colm Feore, Bernard Hepton, Louise Marleau

Synopsis: A forward-looking woman attempts to teach a primitive child the ways of humanity as her neighbors prefer to remain in the past in this drama from Michael Mackenzie, which he adapted from his own play. In 1888, a wealthy heiress from Philadelphia (Patricia Clarkson) marries a British Baron (Colm Feore Read More

Pandemic: Facing AIDS - India

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Jonas at the Ocean

Passage

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Philip Glass, the minimalist composer whose works include the soundtrack for the acclaimed art film Koyaanisqatsi, commissioned a set of film projects in 2001, including this one, Passage. In it, female director Shirin Neshat reveals an enigmatic desert land in which funeral customs display and Read More

The Source

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Johnny Depp, Dennis Hopper, John Turturro

Synopsis: Director Chuck Workman, who documented the life of pop culture icon Andy Warhol in his 1990 film Superstar, here explores the lives, works and influence of four leading lights of the "Beat Generation" of the 1950s: William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady. Cutting back Read More

The Eden Myth

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rebecca Boyd, Julia Dyon, Justin Kirk, Zohra Lampert, Michael P. Moran

Synopsis: Mark Edlitz, an associate of David Mamet who has assisted him on several stage and screen projects, makes his debut as a writer and director with The Eden Myth. A wealthy family sees their dirty laundry exposed as bizarre secrets and a history of incest come to light. Philip Glass contributed the Read More

Si Je T'aime....Prends Garde A Toi

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Daniel Duval, Hubert Saint-Macary, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Philippe Khorsand

Synopsis: Jeanne Labrune wrote and directed this French psychological drama that begins on a train when impoverished carpet salesman Samuel (Daniel Duval) eyes a sleeping woman, Muriel (Nathalie Baye), and peppers her with personal questions when she awakens. A successful screenwriter and novelist, Muriel Read More

The Truman Show

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone

Synopsis: Peter Weir directed this comedy-drama, a commentary on all-pervasive media manipulation. Scripted by Andrew M. Niccol (Gattaca), the film plays like a combination of the British TV series The Prisoner and Paul Bartel's The Secret Cinema. Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is unaware that his entire life Read More

Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: The story of Chuck Close belongs to both the rarefied world of art and to the annals of human triumph over adversity. Originally drawn to painting as a means of dealing with a childhood learning disability, Close began his career by creating massive black-and-white portraits, astonishingly Read More

Kundun

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin, Tenzin Yeshi Paichang, Tencho Gyalpo, Tsewang Migyur Khangsar

Synopsis: This Martin Scorsese film drama detailing the Dalai Lama's life story was in development for seven years, with the Dalai Lama having input into the 14 screenplay drafts by Melissa Mathison (The Black Stallion, E.T.). With four actors portraying the Dalai Lama at different ages, Scorsese's Read More

Bent

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mick Jagger, Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Brian Webber

Synopsis: Sean Mathias directed this screen adaptation of Martin Sherman's award-winning play about the persecution of homosexuals by Nazis during World War II. In Germany, the Nazi party's program of genocide against any and all perceived "enemies" is coming into full swing when the party begins a violent Read More

The Secret Agent

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Gérard Depardieu, Robin Williams, George Spelvin, Jim Broadbent

Synopsis: In this adaptation of the novel by Joseph Conrad, Mr. Verloc (Bob Hoskins) runs a shabby corner shop in London that serves as a front for his more profitable sideline, selling pornography. However, selling sex photos is not Verloc's main order of business; he is a member of an anarchist Read More

Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Tony Todd, Kelly Rowan, Timothy Carhart, Veronica Cartwright, William O'Leary

Synopsis: This sequel to director Bernard Rose's superb, metaphorical Candyman is a more straightforward Gothic horror project, discarding any association with the events of the previous film (which was based on the short story "The Forbidden" by horror surrealist Clive Barker) aside from the title entity Read More

Jenipapo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Henry Czerny

Synopsis: The fate of a remote Brazilian province will be determined by the passage of a reclamation bill. If the bill goes through the land will be destroyed. Fortunately, Father Stephen Lewis is working hard to stop it. For months he has led numerous high-profile protests, but then just a few days before Read More

Miramar Decade: Celebrating Ten Years of Visual Music Excellence

Candyman

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander R. Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons, Vanessa A. Williams

Synopsis: Bernard Rose followed his moody fantasy-thriller Paperhouse (1988) with this modern horror tale, based on Clive Barker's short story "The Forbidden". Compiling a thesis on urban legends, University of Illinois in Chicago graduate student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) becomes aware of the prevalent Read More

A Brief History of Time

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Stephen Hawking

Synopsis: A Brief History of Time is based on cosmologist Stephen Hawking's 1988 bestseller of the same name. This anecdotal film concerns itself as much with Hawking's day-to-day life as it does with his unorthodox theories about the universe. Only the most close-minded viewer will be bothered by the Read More

Mindwalk

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, John Heard, Ione Skye, Emmanuel Montes

Synopsis: A fictionalized depiction of the ecological and holistic teachings of the philosopher Fritjof Capra filmed by his brother Bernt, Mindwalk consists almost entirely of the verbal interplay between its three archetypal characters, physicist Sonia (Liv Ullmann), conservative politician Jack (Sam Waterston Read More

Merci La Vie

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: In this frequently surrealistic romp, a satire on sex, politics, and the business of filmmaking, two young women get together after discovering sufficient provocations in their lives to deliberately set out to wreak havoc in the world around them. Joelle (Anouk Grinberg) has just been thrown out Read More

Closet Land

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Madeleine Stowe, Alan Rickman

Synopsis: Indian-born, American-educated director Radha Bharadwaj based her allegorical thriller on the work of her husband with Amnesty International. The story concerns The Woman (Madeleine Stowe), a children's book writer who, in an unspecified country, is abducted from her bed in the middle of the night Read More

Classic Albums: Paul Simon - Graceland

Actors: Paul Simon

Synopsis: Enjoy these music videos of Paul Simon's album with titles such as "Graceland," "You Can Call Me Al" and "Boy in a Bubble." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Anima Mundi

Crew: Songwriter

The Thin Blue Line

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Not many filmmakers can claim to have freed a convicted murderer from jail, but Errol Morris accomplished that feat with his stunning documentary about Randall Dale Adams. Morris, whose brilliant previous features Vernon, Florida and Gates of Heaven had focused on less substantial subjects Read More

Powaqqatsi

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Powaqqatsi was the second of the feature-length "non narrative" films produced, directed and co-scripted by Godfrey Reggio. As in his earlier Koyaanisqatsi, Reggio utilizes a collage of sounds and gimmicked-up images to make a comment on modern life. And as in the earlier film, Reggio's onslaught Read More

Hamburger Hill

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Anthony Barrile, Michael Boatman, Don Cheadle, Michael Dolan, Don James

Synopsis: Though the anti-war sentiments of Hamburger Hill come through loud and clear, the film is squarely on the side of those courageous, much-maligned Americans who fought and died in Vietnam. Based on a true incident, the story takes place in 1969, as the 101st Airborne Division confronts the Vietcong Read More

Saturday Night Live: George Wendt [1]

Actors: George Wendt, Francis Ford Coppola, Philip Glass

Synopsis: This 1986 episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by George Wendt with musical guest Philip Glass, is memorable for being "directed" by Francis Ford Coppola, who parodies his famous persona throughout the show. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Dead End Kids

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ellen McElduff, George Bartenieff, David Brisbin

Synopsis: Dead End Kids is not a belated entry in Leo Gorcey/Huntz Hall manifest, but instead the film adaptation of Mabou Mines' off-Broadway play. The full title is Dead End Kids: A Story of Nuclear Power, and that is essentially that. Read More

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami, Yasosuke Bando, Junya Fukuda, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Shigeto Tachihara

Synopsis: In Paul Schrader's unusual biopic, Ken Ogata stars as Yukio Mishima, perhaps the most celebrated Japanese novelist of the last five decades. The film begins with Mishima's youth, then moves forward in episodic fashion to his 1970 suicide, symbolically committed at a military site. Originally Read More

Two Moon July

4 American Composers: Philip Glass

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: It makes sense that an offbeat director such as Peter Greenaway (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Prospero's Books) would be attracted to a project such as 4 American Composers, a 1983 British television special profiling John Cage, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, and Robert Ashley, four Read More

Koyaanisqatsi

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: An art-house circuit sensation, this feature-length documentary is visually arresting and possesses a clear, pro-environmental political agenda. Without a story, dialogue, or characters, Koyaanisqatsi (1983) (the film's title is a Hopi word roughly translated into English as "life out of balance") Read More

It's Clean, It Just Looks Dirty

Synopsis: This delightful performance video features works by conductor/composer Philip Glass, musician David Byrne, and filmmaker John Waters. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Inquiring Nuns

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Originally released in 1968, this documentary was re-released in 1992. The film is the humorous story of two socially conscious, peripatetic nuns who roam the densely populated streets of Chicago, randomly stopping pedestrians to ask them the question: " Are you happy?" The ensuing discussions