Once (2007 Sundance Award Winner)

The ninth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2007 features the World Cinema Audience Award winner from the Sundance Film Festival, John Carney’s Once. Written and directed by John Carney and starring Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Once premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and won the Oscar for Best Original Song.Our guest for this episode is actor and singer Megan Riordan, who starred as Girl in the stage adaptation of Once in Dublin and Seoul from 2015-2017.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune (https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2007-05-25-0705240907-story.html), Ella Taylor in LA Weekly (https://www.laweekly.com/once-upon-a-time/), and Amy Simmons in Time Out London (https://www.timeout.com/london/film/once).Visit https://www.awesomemovieyear.com for more info about the show.Make sure to like Awesome Movie Year on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear and follow us on Twitter @AwesomemoviepodYou can find Jason online at http://goforjason.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Twitter @JHarrisComedyYou can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleedYou can find our producer David Rosen’s Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.You can find our guest Megan Riordan online at http://www.meganriordan.com/ and on Twitter @meganriordan All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.comPlease like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 2007 installment featuring the Best Picture Oscar winner, the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men.