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February 11, 2008
A Once interview newly online pre-Oscars
Filmmaker Magazine's put online for the first time an interview with director John Carney and composer Glen Hansard I did for the Spring '07 issue. You can find it here. Once is nominated for Best Original Song for "Falling Slowly," music and lyric by Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová. "In John Carney’s limber long-player, several songs suggest a life, a small, wonderful world consisting of a few Dublin haunts where an unnamed street corner performer, or busker (Glen Hansard), and an unnamed younger Czech woman (Markéta Irglová), who has a winsomely resourceful command of English, meet, tease, learn but mostly, with eyes wide open, develop a mature relationship deepened by the dance of several songs, including the gorgeous “Falling Slowly,” which the extremely affable and charming pair convincingly “compose” in front of us..."
Posted by Ray Pride at February 11, 2008 12:00 AM
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