The Belated Thread for Once

Nobody's seen this?

It's called "The Belated Thread For Once"? I can't tell what the title is supposed to be here.

I have to admit, I didn't realize this was about the movie Once at first, either. I'd sort of like to see it, but I haven't yet.

It's really music-heavy, right? I've heard good things, but never remember to see it because the title is so generic!

Oh, okay. The closest I could figure was the title was "Belated."

It's a musical set in Dublin starring the dude from the Frames.

It's not a "musical" musical as much as it's a movie where a bunch of scenes happen to take place while one of the characters is playing songs.

And Jaymc, the song that the main guy performs with a full band (co-ed with piano) sounds much like the band you play in, both the arrangement and the song itself.

Like Flight of the Conchords or just prominently featured songs?

Now that I think about it, this could almost be a Dogme 95 film, because the music is performed live in the scenes themselves -- so, no flights of fancy like Conchord, just sitting and strumming.

Nobody's seen this?

Saw it a couple months ago and thought it was pretty outstanding. Certainly the best music movie I've seen in eons (even though I'm sorta neutral on the music)

I'd always wondered about the piano's gender. Now I know.

Someone who loved this pls explain why it's the "GREATEST FILM OF THE YEAR" and not just a slightly amusing diversion?

Part of it is because I can't think of another movie with this much music where the songs (other than the studio-recording scene) seem to be recorded live instead of overdubbed.

(Documentaries aside, of course)

Wait. You really think it's a great film because the songs are recorded live?

Clearly we watch films for VERY different reasons.

I could not stand this film. What kind of schlub serenades a daffy chick with Keane songs?

Wait. You really think it's a great film because the songs are recorded live?

Absolutely. I think it's a big part of what contributed to its intimate tone and the emotional effect it has had on a lot of folks (I know someone who bought 10 copies of the DVD the day it came out).

I fell asleep.

Low budgets and low plot can do that.

What kind of schlub serenades a daffy chick with Keane songs?

This was my problem too. I'd love to see the concept tried again with better songwriters.

The Shins will change your life, etc.

But The Shins weren't in Garden State. There aren't any concerts or records in this movie; it's not about listening to music.

The scene where he asks her to stay the night was one of the most uncomfortable scenes I've ever watched before. I felt so bad for him, and thought she was the dumbest homeskillet eva.

i quite liked this movie, i liked the depiction of process. in this it was an improvement even over "i'm not there."

I liked this for I suspect the same reasons that Amateurist and Eazy did: it was just really nice to watch musicians performing music live on film. That first scene in the music store was really powerful. But overall it still felt a little slight to me, so in that respect I kind of side with Mordechai.

When I get around to writing my essay on the definitive detached-yet-intensely-emo films of the Aughts that are the contrast to the definitive Tarantino/Fincher movies of the 90s, this one's right there with Brokeback Mountain and Me and You and Everyone We Know.

-- Eazy, Friday, August 3, 2007 4:10 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

no idea what this even means -- fincher and tarantino, those obvious bedfellows -- but my gran said this was suckage fwiw.

Me neither. The only thing BBM and the Miranda July thing have in common is Morbius' odium.

I think E is saying that Once is a particularly iconic film for this decade in the same way that Pulp Fiction and Se7en were particularly iconic films of the last decade. "Detached-yet-intensely-emo" is the new stylized irony. (You could lump the Coen Bros. in that Tarantino/Fincher category, too.)

Pulp Fiction and Fight Club shared poster space on a lot of dorm room walls.

I agree with jaymc about what the movie's most tangible benefit was. Too bad it wasn't about jazz musicians, tho, or I might have actually liked it.

haha, i expect to cosign that sentiment after i see it

I kind of liked the song that was in 5/4.

Pulp Fiction and Fight Club shared poster space on a lot of dorm room walls.

-- Jordan, Monday, January 14, 2008 5:09 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

maybe -- i would have thought 'pulp fiction' a little overplayed by 1999! -- but there's no thematic or stylistic connection between the two. i liked them both but they're about as different as, say, 'donnie darko' and 'junebug', to pluck two 00s "indie" films out of the ether.

lol postmodernism

The only song I remember vaguely liking was the one he didn't sing, the one where she was walking home.

'pulp fiction' is postmodern in the way most people understand that term, i think -- being a pragmatist i'm ok with that.

'fight club' not so much.

they both seem very '90s.

what with being released in the '90s n'all.

Both make fun of pain and caricature suffering.

I saw this movie a few months ago and it made me really sad that I had stopped making music. but now probably 75% of my free time is spent sitting in my room playing guitar, so I guess it must've had an effect on me.

I really loved this movie. I thought the songs were great, and powerful, and I liked that the movie never had some big, contrived "crisis" that the characters had to deal with. Plus, the two actors fell in love during the making of the movie and are now a couple. So that's cute.

They're a couple now? Was she really 17 when she filmed the movie? Hmmmmmm . . . .

18, I think (born in 1988, filmed in 2006), but yeah, I guess it's a little skeevy. From Hansard's Wikipedia page:

"Said Hansard about his relationship with Irglova: "I had been falling in love with her for a long time, but I kept telling myself she's just a kid."

He had known her since she was 13.

So he's what, 38? Hmmmmm. . . .

Well, anyway, I fell in love with the film, and all it's small moments, with its storyline carried along by expressions, glances and songs.

falling slowlymay not get the best original song nomination now, according to today's news.

http://www.myteespot.com/images/thumbs/t_6616.jpg

Boo-yah, haters.

Wait, what do you mean? Did the film win something?

Best emo sap love song.

Yes, it had me from hello.

I knew all along that Glen Hansard was the singer for The Frames, but I didn't realize until my friend reminded me that he was in 'The Commitments' all those years ago (with really long hair).

saw this last night, really liked it. i guess i get why it's called a love story, but it wasn't really a romance at all, in a lot of ways. it was more a story about a friendship that started off in a romantic direction but then went another way. i was worried that it might end up being one of those weird "self-denial of happiness" love stories, which it could be seen as, but i don't think it ended up like that. i dunno, not the best film ever made but totally good imo.

man leaps to death at Swell Season show:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/20/BA071F0TCS.DTL&tsp=1

The stage version won 8 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. I think it would make me tear my hair out.

On the bright side, it beat out the stage version of Newsies.

I loved the film but I would rather stick pins in my eyeballs than see this on stage (unless it was Glen and Mar doing it).

I wonder how this one, by the same director, is:

SING STREET

SING STREET travels back to 1980s Dublin, seen through the eyes of a 14-year-old boy. Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents’ relationship and money troubles, while trying to adjust to his new inner-city public school, where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher. He finds a glimmer of hope in the mysterious, über-cool and beautiful Raphina (Lucy Boynton), and with the aim of winning her heart he invites her to star in his band’s music videos. There’s only one problem: he’s not part of a band…yet. She agrees, and now Conor must deliver what he’s promised. Calling himself “Cosmo” and immersing himself in the vibrant rock music trends of the decade, he forms a band with a few lads, and the group pours their heart into writing lyrics and shooting videos. Inspired by writer-director John Carney’s (ONCE, BEGIN AGAIN) life and love for music, SING STREET depicts a world where music has the power to take people away from the turmoil of everyday life and transform them into something greater. DIR/SCR/PROD John Carney; PROD Anthony Bregman, Kevin Scott Frakes, Christian Grass, Martina Niland, Raj Brinder Singh, Paul Trijbits. Ireland/UK/U.S., 2016, color, 106 min, DCP. RATED PG-13

No passes accepted.

Directors: John Carney

Run Time: 106 Minutes

Genre: Musical