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Once / Fox Searchlight Pictures and Summit Entertainment and Samson Films present ; in association with Bórd Scannán Na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board & RTÉ ; written & directed by John Carney ; produced by Martina Niland.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 2247767 | 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, Spanish Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Fox Searchlight Pictures : Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., 2007Edition: WidescreenDescription: 1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9786311631409
  • 6311631407
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Robbed -- 'Say It to Me Now'/Main titles -- 'All the Way Down' -- Hoover -- 'Falling Slowly' -- 'Broken-hearted' -- What? -- My home -- Romantic streak -- 'If You Want Me' -- 'Lies' -- Hard bargain -- 'Gold' -- Uncertain future -- 'Trying to Pull Myself Away' -- 'When Your Mind's Made Up' -- 'Fallen From the Sky' -- 'Hill' -- Car test -- Proposition -- "Brilliant!" -- Part of me -- Eyes that know me -- 'Once'/End titles.
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Tim Fleming ; editor, Paul Mullen ; sound mixer, Robert Flanagan ; production designer, Tamara Conboy.
  • Academy Awards, 2008: Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song (Hansard and Irglová) ; Sundance Film Festival, 2007: Audience Award - World Cinema - Dramatic (Carney).
Cast: Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová.Summary: A nameless busker, singing his heart out on the streets of Dublin meets a nameless young woman who speaks English with an accent, a street vendor. His girlfriend has left him, so he works in his father's vacuum repair shop and writes songs for her. She cleans houses, and plays the demo piano in a shop at lunchtime. The singer comes to hear her, and is so impressed that he immediately asks if she wants to collaborate -- right then -- on one of his tunes. They slowly piece the song together, and magic begins. This is a love story about a creative partnership, and the deeper longing for communication that underlies any worthwhile artistic effort.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD DRAMA ONCE Available 33111009936077
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A Dublin-based busker and vacuum-cleaner repairman enters into a fruitful relationship with a piano playing florist in a toe-tapping "video album" directed by John Carney and featuring a cast comprised entirely of professional musicians. He (Glen Hansard of the Frames) was a six-stringed street musician. She (Markéta Irglová) was a flower woman who couldn't afford to purchase a piano of her own. One day, after admiring the musician's songs and asking if he would take a look at her broken vacuum, the flower-pushing piano player discovers that she shares a remarkable sonic rapport with the mechanically savvy guitarist. As their musical sensibilities quickly converge to striking effect, the talented pair soon determines to record an album together. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

DVD ; Region 1 ; NTSC ; widescreen (aspect ratio: 1.85:1) ; Dolby Digital surround ; dual layer.

In English or dubbed Spanish with optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish; closed-captioned.

Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová.

Director of photography, Tim Fleming ; editor, Paul Mullen ; sound mixer, Robert Flanagan ; production designer, Tamara Conboy.

Originally produced as an Irish motion picture in 2007.

MPAA rating: Rated R for language.

A nameless busker, singing his heart out on the streets of Dublin meets a nameless young woman who speaks English with an accent, a street vendor. His girlfriend has left him, so he works in his father's vacuum repair shop and writes songs for her. She cleans houses, and plays the demo piano in a shop at lunchtime. The singer comes to hear her, and is so impressed that he immediately asks if she wants to collaborate -- right then -- on one of his tunes. They slowly piece the song together, and magic begins. This is a love story about a creative partnership, and the deeper longing for communication that underlies any worthwhile artistic effort.

Robbed -- 'Say It to Me Now'/Main titles -- 'All the Way Down' -- Hoover -- 'Falling Slowly' -- 'Broken-hearted' -- What? -- My home -- Romantic streak -- 'If You Want Me' -- 'Lies' -- Hard bargain -- 'Gold' -- Uncertain future -- 'Trying to Pull Myself Away' -- 'When Your Mind's Made Up' -- 'Fallen From the Sky' -- 'Hill' -- Car test -- Proposition -- "Brilliant!" -- Part of me -- Eyes that know me -- 'Once'/End titles.

Special features: Commentary with writer/director John Carney and actors/musicians Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová; Musical commentary with writer/director John Carney and actor/musicians Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová; Making a modern day musical [featurette] (13 min.); More guy, more girl [featurette] (10 min.); webisode "Broken hearted Hoover fixer sucker guy" [animated featurette] (1 min.); free music download "Falling slowly" from the motion picture [requires a DVD-ROM drive and Window 98 or higher]; Trailers (6 min.).

Academy Awards, 2008: Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song (Hansard and Irglová) ; Sundance Film Festival, 2007: Audience Award - World Cinema - Dramatic (Carney).

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