Top American Reviews rate Irish film 'Once' at #3 for 2007

[his holiness nb]

Is "Once" out on dvd yet?

Wouldnt mind giving it a go.

[Star Spangler]

You can download it at Pirate Bay, apparently.

[thejuice]

Funny, I actually havent even heard of this movie till now. Must keep an eye out for it,

[his holiness nb]

You can download it at Pirate Bay, apparently.

Downloading movies at a place called "pirate" bay.

Doesnt sound the most legal thing in the world spangler 

[Star Spangler]

You can download it at Pirate Bay, apparently.

Downloading movies at a place called "pirate" bay.

Doesnt sound the most legal thing in the world spangler 

I did use the word "apparently".

[his holiness nb]

Its a very useful word these days 

[Bogball XV]

Funny, I actually havent even heard of this movie till now. Must keep an eye out for it,

It's been discussed on here before - I don't rate it, everybody else loves it

http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=6171.0

[Declan]

http://www.myspace.com/oncesoundtrack

Great soundtrack

[muppet]

'Falling Slowly' got Hansard and Irgalova a well deserved Oscar nomination.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/entertainment/mheyojojkfey/

[Declan]

Went to see No Country for Old Men last night - Fantastic movie

[muppet]

I hope someone backed it last september!

Well done Glen and Marketa.

[muppet]

Here is an extract from an interview with Glen on pitchforkmedia.com

Pitchfork: Well, you are an outsider. It's a completely different world.

GH: It was for me. I said it in one of the interviews that I felt like a plumber at a flower shop. I guess that wholly sums up how I felt about the whole thing, standing among all these...it's just a different world. It's not a good world or bad world or anything. It's just a different world and a different kind of reality. People kept saying to me all night, "So, what neighborhood are you going to live in?" I was like, "What do you mean?" They said, "Obviously you're going to come out here and get into film work." I was like, "No." Everybody just assumed we were going to move to Hollywood, and next year try to get another one. Dude, this is once in a lifetime. I'm going straight back to making music after this. I had this conversation with a few people who just didn't get it. People are trying to sign you up to an agency or write music for another film. As much as I would do it if it was the right thing, the last thing I want to do is move out here and try to make my money doing that.

Pitchfork: It's wild, coming from an independent music background. Once has made about $14 million at the box office, which in Hollywood is modest at best. But for an independent musician, that's inconceivable.

GH: It's insane. We honestly have no idea how this all happened. The original marketing plan for Once was to get one 35mm print made, which was going to cost us like four grand. A lot of money. We were going to drive around Ireland in a car, and [writer/director] John [Carney] was going to introduce the film. We figured there were enough Frames fans in Ireland to fill the cinemas. I was going to play a few songs with Mar at the end, and we were going to sell the DVD on the way out. That was huge. That was our plan to make our money back, and if it worked in Ireland, we were going to take it to the Czech Republic and try it there. In the background, John was sending it to all the festivals. Everybody refused it. The mad irony is that we sent it to Sundance but it didn't get in! It got refused. You probably know this story, but we showed it in Galway and one guy just happened to be in Galway and saw our film by chance. He said he worked for Sundance and wanted to bring them a copy of the film. We didn't even tell him that we had been refused! We said yeah, cool, brilliant, take it. And we got in.

[The Gs Man]

Just watched this last night.  Great show.  Best thing about it was the fact that they weren't trained actors, their relationship came across as being really awkward or something, which made it more believable.

Good show and the soundtrack is fantastic.

[his holiness nb]

Agree, watched it about 2-3 weeks ago for the first time. Very enjoyable.
G's man got it spot on when he said the awkwardness made it more believable.

Bought the soundtrack straight after, excellent stuff.

Fair play to them.

[Carmen Stateside]

Watched the show last night and really enjoyed it, has the song that won them the oscar been released in the charts yet?