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Did Any London Based NOOLers go see the ICAs screening of Battleship Potemkin in Trafalgar Square with soundtrack by the Pet Shop Boys?
I love that film. Where can I get a hold of the PSB soundtrack? its not on their official site, anyone have an Ideas? :(
BBC4 showed the film complete with PSB soundtrack last night,both film and music complete shite!
Originally posted by SPtwo BBC4 showed the film complete with PSB soundtrack last night,both film and music complete shite!
Thats just like, your opinion..........maaaan
The soundtrack on BBC4 was not by the pet shop boys, I taped it the other night, and was excited by your post SP, but alas when I watched it, I was dissappointed to hear the "old" soundtrack.
Potemkin was made in 1925, and Eisensteins original idea was that each dacade would see a new soundtrack. I personally love it, and cant wait to hear the PSB soundtrack.
They are touring it too - Berlin, Moscow, Paris and Somewhere in Australia I think
Originally posted by Clockwork C > Originally posted by SPtwo BBC4 showed the film complete with PSB soundtrack last night,both film and music complete shite!
Thats just like, your opinion..........maaaan
The soundtrack on BBC4 was not by the pet shop boys, I taped it the other night, and was excited by your post SP, but alas when I watched it, I was dissappointed to hear the "old" soundtrack.
Potemkin was made in 1925, and Eisensteins original idea was that each dacade would see a new soundtrack. I personally love it, and cant wait to hear the PSB soundtrack.
They are touring it too - Berlin, Moscow, Paris and Somewhere in Australia I think
Eisenstein is a genious. Never heard that PSB did a soundtrack for Battleship Potemkin!! THAT I must hear.
BTW, try listening to Morrissey's "Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils" and tell me if you find any resemblance with the "original" film soundtrack.
Originally posted by Resurrection Spider **> Originally posted by Clockwork C> > > > Originally posted by SP>**two BBC4 showed the film complete with PSB soundtrack last night,both film and music complete shite!
Thats just like, your opinion..........maaaan
The soundtrack on BBC4 was not by the pet shop boys, I taped it the other night, and was excited by your post SP, but alas when I watched it, I was dissappointed to hear the "old" soundtrack.
Potemkin was made in 1925, and Eisensteins original idea was that each dacade would see a new soundtrack. I personally love it, and cant wait to hear the PSB soundtrack.
They are touring it too - Berlin, Moscow, Paris and Somewhere in Australia I think
Eisenstein is a genious. Never heard that PSB did a soundtrack for Battleship Potemkin!! THAT I must hear.
BTW, try listening to Morrissey's "Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils" and tell me if you find any resemblance with the "original" film soundtrack.
The "original" soundtrack is just a selection of Shostakovich pieces from his symphonies, so there was no entirely original score commissioned for the film that is still in circulation (I've seen with film with several different soundtracks). I'm not sure on whether or not those Shostakovich pieces were all composed by the time the film was released in 1925 (presumably before Shostakovich fled the USSR around 1950, if I recall), so maybe Eisenstein pieced them together into the "original" soundtrack for the film's release.
At any rate, I'd love to see the PSB version of it! Hilarity.
Originally posted by His Holiness, The Pope **> Originally posted by Resurrection Spider> > > > Originally posted by Clockwork C> > > > > > > Originally posted by SP> > >**two BBC4 showed the film complete with PSB soundtrack last night,both film and music complete shite!
Thats just like, your opinion..........maaaan
The soundtrack on BBC4 was not by the pet shop boys, I taped it the other night, and was excited by your post SP, but alas when I watched it, I was dissappointed to hear the "old" soundtrack.
Potemkin was made in 1925, and Eisensteins original idea was that each dacade would see a new soundtrack. I personally love it, and cant wait to hear the PSB soundtrack.
They are touring it too - Berlin, Moscow, Paris and Somewhere in Australia I think
Eisenstein is a genious. Never heard that PSB did a soundtrack for Battleship Potemkin!! THAT I must hear.
BTW, try listening to Morrissey's "Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils" and tell me if you find any resemblance with the "original" film soundtrack.
The "original" soundtrack is just a selection of Shostakovich pieces from his symphonies, so there was no entirely original score commissioned for the film that is still in circulation (I've seen with film with several different soundtracks). I'm not sure on whether or not those Shostakovich pieces were all composed by the time the film was released in 1925 (presumably before Shostakovich fled the USSR around 1950, if I recall), so maybe Eisenstein pieced them together into the "original" soundtrack for the film's release.
At any rate, I'd love to see the PSB version of it! Hilarity.
Were they all the same music, with different edits?
There are pictures of the gig on guardian.co.uk
Originally posted by Clockwork C **> Originally posted by His Holiness, The Pope> > > > Originally posted by Resurrection Spider> > > > > > > Originally posted by Clockwork C> > > > > > > > > > Originally posted by SP> > > > > >**two BBC4 showed the film complete with PSB soundtrack last night,both film and music complete shite!
Thats just like, your opinion..........maaaan
The soundtrack on BBC4 was not by the pet shop boys, I taped it the other night, and was excited by your post SP, but alas when I watched it, I was dissappointed to hear the "old" soundtrack.
Potemkin was made in 1925, and Eisensteins original idea was that each dacade would see a new soundtrack. I personally love it, and cant wait to hear the PSB soundtrack.
They are touring it too - Berlin, Moscow, Paris and Somewhere in Australia I think
Eisenstein is a genious. Never heard that PSB did a soundtrack for Battleship Potemkin!! THAT I must hear.
BTW, try listening to Morrissey's "Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils" and tell me if you find any resemblance with the "original" film soundtrack.
The "original" soundtrack is just a selection of Shostakovich pieces from his symphonies, so there was no entirely original score commissioned for the film that is still in circulation (I've seen with film with several different soundtracks). I'm not sure on whether or not those Shostakovich pieces were all composed by the time the film was released in 1925 (presumably before Shostakovich fled the USSR around 1950, if I recall), so maybe Eisenstein pieced them together into the "original" soundtrack for the film's release.
At any rate, I'd love to see the PSB version of it! Hilarity.
Were they all the same music, with different edits?
There are pictures of the gig on guardian.co.uk The different version I saw was edited the same, but just had different music. Still, it's hard to imagine Potemkin without that Shostakovich soundtrack...it just fits so well (despite not having been written for the film)! I'll ask a friend of mine who collects just about every film score imaginable (and is obsessed with Shostakovich) if all the cuts used in the soundtrack were produced before 1925 or not. That should decide if the popular soundtrack out there is one originally pieced together by Eisenstein himself.
me and my boyfriend were travelling around uk at that time, and we just came to london from manchester (where we found lots of places that are related to joy division, thanks to oldblue) just to see the show. we didn't expect so many people so when we got there it was already so crowded. i was toooo short so i couldn't see the movie at all. but my boyfriend already saw it a long time ago and explained it to me. personally i think the soundtrack is pretty good. at least much better than their last two albums. and i was very, very surprised when i saw neil mentioned that this version of potemkin may be shown in taiwan, my country. (on evening standard, 10/09)
my boyfriend said that their video "red letter day" did give him the impression of potemkin (and some other videos in the bilingual era) but i couldn't feel that anyway :p
