Once upon a timeBy
David
Arguably the warmest event of this year’s Academy Awards telecast was the Best Song Oscar win by Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, also known as The Swell Season, for “Falling Slowly” from the Once soundtrack. The lo-fi movie, set in Dublin, inspired to Steven Spielberg to say, “A little movie called Once gave me enough inspiration to last the rest of the year”. In a year of the schmaltzy songs from the Christmas movie Enchanted dominating the song field, it was quite amazing to see Once stand up get up, and receive notice. It was also redeeming as two other deserving musical pieces were not nominated this year: Eddie Vedder’s soundtrack to Into The Wild and Jonny Greenwood’s (of Radiohead) powerful score to There Will Be Blood. But the success of Once was seen by many as due, based on the critics’ voices: ROLLING STONE ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY THE NEW YORK TIMES LOS ANGELES TIMES AP ASSOCIATED PRESS DAILY NEWS THE VILLAGE VOICE Be sure to catch The Swell Season when they perform on Live From The Artists Den on Ovation TV February 28th. Have you seen Once or does their win inspire you to?
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Kate Walz said:
I heard the song on XM radio over the summer and absolutely loved it. I had no idea it was attached to a movie. I was excited to see them win, and Jon Stewart letting her come back to give her acceptance speech was lovely. Donmothra said:
It’s on my list of movies … I’m just glad good music won over “schmaltz” this year. Matt said:
Definitely the best performance of the night…I was pretty happy they won and doubly happy that somehow (a rare if ever allowed thing) they let Marketa come back on stage after the commercial break to give her acceptance speech – Glen had talked first and they cut off Marketa with the orchestra and commercial break. Afterwards, she came back to give a short and sweet thank you…how cool is that? Check out the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFsS2Sp4L3U Or maybe David can paste it into his post. Fridahoneypie said:
I was so glad to see Marketa come back on stage! One of the moments of the whole ceremony! |
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