``Moulin Rouge'' Soundtrack, From Fox/Interscope, Features World's Top Cutting-Edge Artists/Composers.Entertainment Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com and at www.newstream.com. LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--April 9, 2001 Some of today's most cutting-edge artists and composers are working with filmmaker Baz Luhrmann to create what is expected to be one of the year's hottest soundtracks, for Luhrmann's new motion picture "Moulin Rouge Moulin Rouge (French for Red Mill or windmill) is a traditional cabaret, built in 1889 by Joseph Oller, who already owned the Paris Olympia. ." Interscope Records will release the soundtrack, "Music From Baz Luhrmann's Film `Moulin Rouge,'" May 8, 2001. In "Moulin Rouge," a celebration of love and creative inspiration set in 1900, in the infamous Paris nightclub, Luhrmann brings together modern-era pop tunes and gorgeous period design to create a unique motion-picture experience. The music in "Moulin Rouge" is a celebration of many of the great pop songs of the 20th century, from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Lennon and McCartney, from Sting to Elton John Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March, 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. , from Dolly Parton par·ton n. Any of the point particles believed to be a constituent of hadrons, now known as quarks. No longer in technical use. [part(icle) + -on1.] to David Bowie. Each song heard in the film is a crucial storytelling device. "Moulin Rouge" composer Craig Armstrong Craig Armstrong may refer to:
Chris Elliott (born May 31, 1960 in New York City) is an American comedian and the son of comedian Bob Elliott. Career Elliott often tends to play a smarmy character who thinks he is a "ladies' man" and is clueless to the fact that and Steve Sharples, as well as Luhrmann and Monsted's longtime music programmer and co-producer, Josh Abrahams, collaborated closely with Luhrmann on the film's music. From the "Moulin Rouge" soundtrack: -- The album opens and closes with Bowie singing the 1940s standard "Nature Boy." The opening draws on "Moulin Rouge" score composer Armstrong's score version of the song. (Armstrong has also composed and arranged for Madonna, Massive Attack and Bjork.) The album closes with Bowie's collaboration with Massive Attack on the same song. The two interpretations of the song, with its central lyric -- "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return" -- bookend the film. -- Bono, Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer have reinterpreted the T-Rex classic "Children of the Revolution." -- Multiplatinum recording artists Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya and Pink recorded a cover -- and shot a disco-style music video -- of the LaBelle classic "Lady Marmalade" (aka "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?"), which will be the first single from soundtrack. Ground-breaking hip-hop star Missy Elliott and Rockwilder produce the key music opener. -- Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor make their on-screen/ soundtrack singing debuts. The actors duet on "Come What May," a love song composed for the film, produced by multi-Grammy winner David Foster and Simon Franglen; and on "Elephant Love Medley." Kidman solos on "Sparkling Diamonds" and "One Day I'll Fly Away," and duets with one of the film's featured players, Alka Yagnik, on "Hindi Sad Diamonds," a medley of Hindi songs plus "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend." On "Your Song," McGregor teams with three tenors: maestro Placido Domingo, rising star Allesandro Safina and Australian tenor Jamie Allen. McGregor and actor Jacek Koman join Jose Feliciano to create a tango version of the classic Police track "Roxanne," which is part of a medley with the classic Argentinian tango "Tanguera" by Mariano Mores. -- Valeria performs a hot Latin dance-floor reinterpretation of the Diane Warren classic "Rhythm of the Night." -- Fatboy Slim composes "Because We Can," a new track for the film. -- Beck and Timbaland unite on the Bowie classic "Diamond Dogs." -- Rufus Wainwright sings "Complainte de la Butte," a ballad written by film director Jean Renoir for his 1950s film "French Can Can," also set at the Moulin Rouge. The original is sung in French; Wainwright performs it in a combination of French and English lyrics. The Cannes Film Festival Cannes Film Festival Film festival held annually in Cannes, France. First held in 1946 for the recognition of artistic achievement, the festival came to provide a rendezvous for those interested in the art and influence of the movies. has selected "Moulin Rouge" as the festival's opening-night film, to screen in competition on May 9, 2001. Twentieth Century Fox will release the film nationally on June 1, and also will platform the film in a single run each in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. on May 18. In the film, Kidman plays the Moulin moulin (m  lăN`): see pothole. Rouge's most notorious
star, forced to choose between a young writer's inspiration and
another man's obsession. McGregor is the writer who finds himself
plunged into this decadent dec·a·dent adj. 1. Being in a state of decline or decay. 2. Marked by or providing unrestrained gratification; self-indulgent. 3. often Decadent Of or relating to literary Decadence. n. world where anything goes -- except falling in love. The film also stars John Leguizamo John Leguizamo (born July 22, 1964) is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated Colombian comedian, actor and producer. Biography Early life Leguizamo was born in Bogotá, Colombia. as Toulouse-Lautrec; Jim Broadbent as Zidler, the club's owner; and Richard Roxburgh as the Duke. It was written by Luhrmann & Craig Pearce, and the producers are Martin Brown, Luhrmann and Fred Baron. Twentieth Century Fox is a unit of Fox Filmed Entertainment, a unit of Fox Entertainment Group. Note: A photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.040901/bb10 |
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