Uses in Popular Culture
Gnossienne No. 1 has been used in several original soundtracks around the world including
- Orson Welles's 1968 film The Immortal Story
- Takeshi Kitano's 1989 film Violent Cop
- Lasse Hallström's 2000 film Chocolat
- Kevin Elyot's 2003 television adaptation of Five Little Pigs, the Agatha Christie novel
- Guy Ritchie's 2005 film Revolver
- John Curran's 2006 film The Painted Veil
- Aku Louhimies's 2008 film Käsky
- Cédric Klapisch' 2008 film Paris
- James Marsh's 2008 documentary Man On Wire.
- Tatsuya Ishihara's 2010 film adaptation of Nagaru Tanigawa's novel The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya.
- Martin Scorsese's 2011 film Hugo
Gnossienne No. 1 can be heard in Monty Don's "Italian Gardens", a BBC Series.
Gnossienne No. 3 was used in Jaco Van Dormael's 2009 film Mr. Nobody, and in a Victoria's Secret commercial for their fragrance line "Dream Angels".
Gnossienne No. 4 was repeatedly played by one of the characters in Anthony Byrne's 2007 film How About You.
Pieces loosely based on Gnossienne No. 4 and No. 5 were used in Hal Ashby's 1979 film Being There, starring Peter Sellers.
Gnossienne No. 4 was used in Alexander Payne's 2002 film About Schmidt.
Several of the Gnossienne were used in Isabel Coixet's 2008 film Elegy. A pastiche of Erik Satie's Gnossiennes, composed by Vladimir Cosma, was used in Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1981 film Diva. A similar pastiche was composed by Charles Fox for the soundtrack of the 1988 film, Short Circuit 2 for the scene following the attack on the robot, Johnny 5. Gnossienne No. 1–3 is featured on The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya movie soundtrack.
The first three Gnossiennes were also used in Louis Malle's Le Feu Follet (1963).
In a deleted scene from the film Girl, Interrupted (1999), a short portion of "Gnossienne No. 1" is played on the piano by the character of Susanna Kaysen's mother, Annette.
Family Fodder's 1982 single "The Big Dig" is a dub influenced rendition of "Gnossienne No. 1"
Chris Martin of Coldplay, plays part of "Gnossienne No. 1" after "Politik" at concerts during the Viva la Vida tour.
Gnossienne No. 1 is played a the end of the premier episode of Boss "Listen". It is also played at the beginning of the seventh episode of season 1, "Stasis".
Gnossienne No. 1 is the basis for Tori Amos' song "Battle Of Trees".
In September 2011, James blake opened his BBC Essential Mix with Gnossienne No. 5.
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