{"id":1063,"date":"2007-10-21T05:17:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T04:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/21\/john-carney-on-once\/"},"modified":"2016-09-03T21:37:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T20:37:50","slug":"john-carney-on-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/10\/21\/john-carney-on-once\/","title":{"rendered":"John Carney on Once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"John Carney - Director of Once\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsearchlight.com\/once\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"John Carney - Director of Once\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/john-carney-director-of-once.jpg\" alt=\"John Carney - Director of Once\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>The new film <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0907657\/\">Once<\/a> <\/strong>is out at UK cinemas this weekend and I recently spoke to director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0138809\/\"><strong>John Carney<\/strong><\/a> about the film.<\/p>\n<p>It is a charming tale of the relationship between a Dublin busker (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glen_Hansard\">Glen Hansard<\/a>) and a Czech girl (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark%C3%A9ta_Irglov%C3%A1\">Marketa Irglova<\/a>) he meets on the street.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring a lot of songs by Hansard and Irglova, it is a music film without being a musical and <a href=\"http:\/\/bifsniff.com\/film-tv\/irish-film-once-wins-sundance-award\">was a big hit at Sundance<\/a> back in January.<\/p>\n<p>So much so in fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsearchlight.com\/once\/\">Fox Searchlight<\/a> released it and the film won a lot of fans, including none other than <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steven_Spielberg\">Steven Spielberg<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/movies\/news\/2007-08-06-once_N.htm?csp=34\">who said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA little movie called Once gave me enough inspiration to last the rest of the year.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I spoke with John about the making of the film and the success it has enjoyed over the last few months.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/John_Carney_on_Once.MP3]\n<p>To download this as a podcast via iTunes just click the image below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251424468\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/podcast\/itunes.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>\nOnce <\/strong>is out now at selected UK cinemas <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/John_Carney_on_Once.MP3\">Download this interview as an MP3<br \/>\n<\/a>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/movies\">Get local showtimes for Once via Google Movies<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/film\/titles\/once\">Check out reviews of the film at Metacritic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview with John Carney, the director of Once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,29,19],"tags":[1704,1705],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16442,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions\/16442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}