Jacques Tati "Les musiques originales et les dialogues" (1947-67) 1995

This entry generally is for Alain Romans and / or Franck Barcellini & Alain Romans, who composed the soundtracks to Jacques Tati's films of the 50s and 60s.
Alain Romans (1905, Poland – 1988) was a French jazz composer. He studied in Leipzig, Berlin, and Paris. His teachers included Vincent d'Indy. He later worked with Josephine Baker and Django Reinhardt.
Romans wrote music for 12 films. The most famous of them are the films of comedian Jacques Tati, including Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1953), with the theme song "Quel Temps Fait-Il A Paris?", and Mon Oncle (1959).
Jacques Tati (October 9 1907–November 5 1982) was a noted French comedic filmmaker. He was born Jacques Tatischeff, the son of Russian father Georges-Emmanuel Tatischeff and Dutch mother Marcelle Claire Van Hoof, in Le Pecq, Yvelines, and died in Paris.
The Tatischeffs (also spelled Tatishchev) are a Russian noble family of Rurikid descent; Tati's paternal grandfather was Russia's ambassador to France. After a career as a professional rugby player, Tati found success as a mime in French music halls. In the late 1930s Tati recorded some of his early supporting cameos on film with some success and thus began his career as a filmmaker. One of his short films, L'École Des Facteurs (The School for Postmen) provided material for his first feature, Jour de fête. His films have little audible dialogue, but instead are built around elaborate, tightly-choreographed visual gags and carefully integrated sound effects. In all but his very last film, Tati plays the lead character, who - with the exception of his first and last films - is the gauche and socially inept Monsieur Hulot. With his trademark raincoat, umbrella and pipe, Hulot is among the most memorable comic characters in cinema. There exist several recurrent themes in Tati's comedic work, most notably in Mon Oncle, Playtime and Trafic: they include Western society's obsession with material goods, particularly American-style consumerism, the pressure-cooker environment of modern society, the superficiality of relationships among France's various social classes, and the cold and often impractical nature of space-age technology and design.
Tati's first major feature, Jour de fête (The Big Day), tells the story of an inept rural village postman who interrupts his duties to inspect the traveling fair that has come to town. Influenced by too much wine and a documentary on the rapidity of the American postal service, he goes to hilarious lengths to speed his mail deliveries aboard his bicycle. Tati filmed it in 1947 in the village where he found refuge from Nazi recruiters during the German occupation. Released in 1949, the film was intended to be the first French feature film shot in color; Tati simultaneously shot the film in black-and-white as an insurance policy. The newly developed Thomson color system proved impractical, as it could not deliver color prints; Jour de fête was therefore released only in black-and-white. Unlike his later films, it has many scenes with dialogue and offers a droll, affectionate view of life in rural France. The color version was restored by his daughter, Sophia Tatischeff, and released in 1995. The film won a prize at the Venice Film Festival...

trax:
Jour De Fête (1947)
01 Jours de Fete (Generique musique) - Jean Yatove 02 Ballade du Facteur (musique) - Jean Yatove 03 Installation Fete au Village - Jean Yatove 04 Hulot à Vélo / Guêpe, Poteau (Musique) - Jean Yatove 05 Ambiances Fete 06 Generique fin musique - Jean Yatove
Mon Oncle (1956-1958)
07 Mon Oncle (Generique) - Franck Barcellini & Alain Romans 08 Theme Jazz - Franck Barcellini & Alain Romans 09 Theme Principale - Franck Barcellini & Alain Romans 10 Divers Dialogues - Franck Barcellini & Alain Romans 11 Generique Fin Musique - Franck Barcellini & Alain Romans
Les Vacances De Monsieur Hulot (1953)
12 Les Vancances de Monsieur Hulo (Générique Début Musique) - Alain Romans 13 Depart Vancances Gare - Alain Romans 14 Theme Musical - Alain Romans 15 Ambiance Restaurant et Musique - Alain Romans 16 Tennis - Theme Piano - Alain Romans 17 Ambiances Retour Vancances (Music) - Alain Romans
Playtime (1967)
18 Playtime (Generique Musique) - Francis Lemarque 19 Ambiance Aeroport - Francis Lemarque 20 Sequence Jazz et Cabaret - Francis Lemarque 21 Generique Fin - Francis Lemarque