marie antoinette : the soundtrack album

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Tracks:

DISC 1:
1. Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie & The Banshees
2. Aphrodisiac - Bow Wow Wow
3. What Ever Happened - The Strokes
4. Pulling Our Weight - The Radio Dept.
5. Ceremony - New Order
6. Natural's Not In It - Gang Of Four
7. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow (Kevin Shields remix)
8. Kings Of The Wild Frontier - Adam & The Ants
9. Concerto In G - Antonio Vivaldi/Brian Reitzell
10. Melody Of A Fallen Tree, The - Windsor For The Derby
11. I Don't Like It Like This - The Radio Dept.
12. Plainsong - The Cure

DISC 2:
1. Intro Versailles - Reitzell/Beggs
2. Jynweythek Ylow - Aphex Twin
3. Opus 17 - Dustin O'Halloran
4. Il Secondo Giorno - Air (instrumental)
5. Keen On Boys - The Radio Dept.
6. Opus 23 - Dustin O'Halloran
7. Les Baricades Misterieuses - Francois Couperin/Brian Reitzell
8. Fools Rush In - Bow Wow Wow (Kevin Shields remix)
9. Avril 14th - Aphex Twin
10. K. 213 - Domenico Scarlatti/Brian Reitzell
11. Tommib Help Buss - Squarepusher
12. Tristes Apprets - Jean Philippe Rameau/W. Christie
13. Opus 36 - Dustin O'Halloran
14. All Cats Are Grey - The Cure

film's meant to be dreaful, but the soundtrack looks ace.

― pisces (piscesx), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Somehow I don't think the film is meant to be dreadful.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

hahah, i love that the whole thing concludes with 'all cats are grey'. seems such an odd choice for a movie of this type. but i'll have to see it first.

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Schwartzman as Louis XVI does and doesn't work. (It does work in that in real life Louis was a fairly dull schlub.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:48 (twenty years ago)

The commercial that uses "Plainsong" is just gorgeous to watch.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:49 (twenty years ago)

the shields 'i want candy' is barely any different at all from the original! i hope he wasn't paid much.

― pisces (piscesx), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Somehow I don't think the film is meant to be dreadful.

Britspeak, methinks...

― jackl (jackl), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:24 (twenty years ago)

other than the french hating it, I have not heard anything that leads me to believe that it is going to be dreadful. anyway, nice soundtrack.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Looks like the Lost in Translation soundtrack except for no Kevin Shields originals.

― strom (strom), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

and no Phoenix...(which is odd, since, well, you know)...

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:21 (twenty years ago)

I saw the movie at a press screening a couple weeks ago. It's not a good movie at all, but the soundtrack is ace - especially if you can see it in a theater with a good sound system.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Wow, she really digs Radio Dept.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, "meant to be" is, um, meant to be "supposed to be", FFS. Obv. As in: "everyone says it's shite." I mean, how long has ILX been here bridging the Trans-Atlantic gap (six years? More?) and yet some Septics still don't (or pretend not to) get it....?

Anyway, any soundtrack that includes "Plainsong" and "Ceremony" and ends on "All Cats Are Grey" is a thing of wonder and beauty, whoever the fuck is actually listening.

― David A. (Davant), Friday, 20 October 2006 05:31 (twenty years ago)

"other than the french hating it, I have not heard anything that leads me to believe that it is going to be dreadful"

ne touchez pas la revolution!

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Friday, 20 October 2006 05:45 (twenty years ago)

The commercial that uses "Plainsong" is just gorgeous to watch.

Definatley.

It'd be nice if the film was a no-dialogue Baraka-esque thing with pretty cinematography and good songs.

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:31 (twenty years ago)

No that anyonce cares but... I though that movie got pretty good reviews in France, where it came out nearly a year ago.

― Baaderonixx in the year of the locusts (baaderonixx), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:36 (twenty years ago)

it received a warm reception even here.

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:40 (twenty years ago)

I thought Phoenix were supposed to be performing in the film?

― braveclub (braveclub), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:10 (twenty years ago)

they are, performing as a renaissance band at a party, i think.
the film got ok reviews here (france) : sweet but without depth was the general consensus. like a stylish womens' fashion magazine. with a nice soundtrack.

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:49 (twenty years ago)

This response actually made me laugh harder than the initial thread post did!

http://www.blm.gov/utah/vernal/kudos.jpg

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:10 (twenty years ago)

Dustin O'Halloran is the dude from the Devics, the L.A. band that is mostly unknown at home at supposedly sells out tours in Italy and elsewhere.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone have a link to the Plainsong-using trailer/teaser?

PS "Come Up" is the shit

― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rollanet.org/~vbeydler/van/3dreview/vh1-80s-3d.jpg

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

I find it very annoying how almost every other scene must be accompanied by a song. It looses the effect that great songs can have on a film when it's overdone like it is in this case.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:05 (twenty years ago)

I though that movie got pretty good reviews in France, where it came out nearly a year ago.

hm. i think this premiered at Cannes.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:14 (twenty years ago)

does she make better use of her favorite songs than scorsese does of his?

― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:18 (twenty years ago)

I don't really get Sophia Coppola's obsession with inserting postpunk elements into anachronistic/unusual settings.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:19 (twenty years ago)

Am I off the mark to think that she's just a slightly cooler Zach Braff?

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:20 (twenty years ago)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422720/board/thread/56601520

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:29 (twenty years ago)

I don't really get Sophia Coppola's obsession with inserting postpunk elements into anachronistic/unusual settings.

I wouldn't say that's her schtick at all- for Marie Antoinette, yes, but aside from the brief Air score, The Virgin Suicides soundtrack is all 70's MOR, and the only thing I'd call (debatably) post-punk on Lost in Translation is the Jesus & Mary Chain. Unless you mean something of her directorial or writing style is somehow "post-punk," in which case I'd like to hear more...

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:37 (twenty years ago)

Following the soundtrack angle, on the LiT soundtrack you've got Murray singing "More Than This" as a hidden track, along with him doing "Peace Love & Understanding," in the film. "On the Subway" also comes off like something Eno & Bowie might have put out if they'd stayed in Berlin a little longer. Then of course there's the very prominent position "Just Like Honey" gets in the closing scene.

I wish I did have an argument to suggest that her direction or writing were somehow postpunk, it'd be much more interesting than my rather blase and highly dubious soundtrack points. But there's really no way for me to connect the sense of longing she's trying to communicate in Lost in Translation with the instinct toward hyperrational demystification in the music of Gang of Four, Scritti Politti, etc.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:58 (twenty years ago)

Saw the movie tonight. It's very good, and the music works very well - not overdone at all, to my eye/ear. The label is sending me the soundtrack.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 21 October 2006 02:17 (twenty years ago)

I guess you could suggest that by having her characters' long for exactly the kind of romantic connection that Go4 tried to rationalize/take the piss out of, the story is postpostpunk (?!).

Their "real" relationships with their marriage partners have lost the romantic sense of connection. So they want the romantic sense of connection but also realize (thanks to the inadequacy of ther "real" relationships) that it's completely transient. They're longing for the sense of romance that postpunk sought to destroy, all the while acknowledging the futility of their longing.

So the story/mood of the film is post-postpunk?

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 21 October 2006 02:21 (twenty years ago)

x-post

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 21 October 2006 02:22 (twenty years ago)

Am I off the mark to think that she's just a slightly cooler Zach Braff?
Lost in Translation, yes.

The other two, not really.

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 21 October 2006 02:26 (twenty years ago)

I'm curious- what's with all the classical pieces co-credited to Brian Reitzell in the original post's tracklisting? Has he remixed/edited/tarted them up with electronics in some way? Gone full-out Wendy Carlos on them?

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Saturday, 21 October 2006 03:47 (twenty years ago)

it's all about Jubilee...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 21 October 2006 03:49 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008RH14.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg ?

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Saturday, 21 October 2006 03:52 (twenty years ago)

jubilee is crazy great like whoa.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 21 October 2006 07:27 (twenty years ago)

ROGER'S BACK!!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 21 October 2006 12:36 (twenty years ago)

this soundtrack is the only reason my gf and I want to see this movie

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 21 October 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

great movie if you like her others.. otherwise, don't bother. not totally fucked up like jubilee, rather different, i'd say

― gaseous (gaseous), Saturday, 21 October 2006 22:53 (twenty years ago)

i didn't hate it like i did lost in translation

― latebloomer: Veteran of the Mai Tai Massacre (latebloomer), Sunday, 22 October 2006 01:30 (twenty years ago)

The movie as excellent. Don't get why everyone seems to hate it...

Great soundtrack. Hong Kong Garden = WINNAR.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 22 October 2006 01:34 (twenty years ago)

The movie IS*

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 22 October 2006 01:38 (twenty years ago)

or WAS. Both work.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 22 October 2006 01:38 (twenty years ago)

the soundtrack was well utilized in the film, and it wasn't as obvious and contrived as i was expecting. the movie itself i enjoyed, though i'm not quite sure what i think of it.

i definitely did like kirsten's blade runner-inspired ballroom mask.

― latebloomer: Veteran of the Mai Tai Massacre (latebloomer), Sunday, 22 October 2006 01:40 (twenty years ago)

that remix of "i want candy" was pretty subtle (unless the one in the movie isn't the one on the soundtrack).

best musical sequence in the movie: plainsong into ceremony (could have done with a tad more plainsong)

anyway i thought it was pretty good.

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 22 October 2006 04:27 (twenty years ago)

Here's the "Plainsong" commercial for the guy who wanted it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d26hv_Kft_E&NR

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 22 October 2006 04:41 (twenty years ago)

"Natural's Not in It" is SO PERFECT at the beginning it kinda makes the rest of the soundtrack superfluous. Awesomely superfluous, but still

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Sunday, 22 October 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

I have a friend who once said something to the effect that "Natural's Not in It" is SO PERFECT that it made the rest of postpunk kind of superfluous.

I hit him in the mouth.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Sunday, 22 October 2006 23:29 (twenty years ago)

(sigh)I see what you did there, and it was irritating

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Sunday, 22 October 2006 23:49 (twenty years ago)

I agree, though, that as a general rule "Natural's Not In It" is all apotheosisy 'n shit.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 23 October 2006 00:10 (twenty years ago)

Is it the rerecorded version from Return the Git?

― xero (xero), Monday, 23 October 2006 00:14 (twenty years ago)

Teehee

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 23 October 2006 01:15 (twenty years ago)

oh, meant to be dreadful,
life is meant to be dreadful.

Well, I liked the movie, I thought it was fun & fantastic to see with friends. much more than Gondry's new one.
Coppola at least seemed like she knew what she wanted with art of it and wasn't going all Braff with a cookie cutter indie kid format. Even if it was a sort of scenekid film, she seemed committed to her direction. I'm putting this music with this scene because it works and I want it that way, not so it will sell? I don't know, I don't watch many movies, I just generally like her films even though I do have certain nitpick about them.

and the obvious references to Louis XVI's err...well, I won't spoil, but come on, those were funny.

I think the song I actually didn't like was the "I Want Candy" with the cake montage because it just feels over used in films. I don't know how valid a reasoning that is, because it did work, but. whutever.
Oh, but i did like how the songs they used in the ads weren't just promotional, but were actually included in the film. I hate that, when they tease on tv and then the actual film scene is so opposite of how it was used with music on television.

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Monday, 23 October 2006 01:23 (twenty years ago)

Teehee
-- A Viking of Some Note (andrew.thame...),

otm

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 23 October 2006 02:01 (twenty years ago)

Everything worked great for me, except perhaps Hong Kong Garden...

For me HKG gives everything interesting away in the first 8 bars, and then it just becomes duller and duller.

So sure, it provides good and immediate impact in the masked ball scene dance. But, it's about skinheads beating up the proprietors of a chinese takeaway innit?

― Shawnoftheshed (xtrawidth), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:25 (twenty years ago)

This Radio Dept song is really really beautiful.

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:18 (twenty years ago)

The first one that is, just noticed they're on 2 more times.

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:19 (twenty years ago)

i saw the film on saturday ... have posted about it at length on ILE so won't repeat myself here, suffice to say that it's stolen a small but not insignificant part of my heart. the soundtrack isn't out in the UK until monday and i absolutely cannot wait.

"plainsong" is used for what, 15-20 seconds in the film? but it's one of the most powerful juxtapositions of sound and image i've ever seen in cinema; actually, "seen" is perhaps the wrong word because it seemed to bypass my senses and go straight to my soul.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:42 (twenty years ago)

So you liked it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:45 (twenty years ago)

yeh, it was okay :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Taking Sides: ILM Marie Antionette thread VS. ILE Marie Antionette thread.

― researching ur life (grady), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 01:16 (twenty years ago)

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