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Hotpress darling Glen Hansard and child bride Marketa Irglova were the recipients last night of the Oscar for ‘Best Original Song’, for ‘Falling Slowly’, a track written for their ‘Swell Season‘ album and featured in John Carney’s slight but touching film ‘Once‘. Congrats guys!
‘Falling Slowly’, from Once..
Acceptance Speech..
‘Falling Slowly’, performed at the academy awards..
“child bride” hahaha
You’re a funny guy, Gareth Stack.
[…] Lunatic French savant director Michel Gondry is about to release his latest film ‘Be Kind Rewind‘, starring Jack Black and Mos Def. The film’s premise is that a pair foolish but creative video store employees manage to accidentally erase their entire stock of tapes, and are forced to re-enact or ’swede’ them, in microbudget mini movies (which of course become hugely popular in their own right. Gondry has intentionally or otherwise, laid the ground work for what could be one of the most creative user generated viral marketing campaigns in history. Check out this utterly wonderful (if overly slickly produced) retelling of Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova’s Oscar winning ‘Once’. […]
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