Glen Hansard: A Life That Played Like a Movie
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Steven Zeitchik writes a tribute to Glen Hansard, showing how the Irish musician fused music with cinema—from a Seaport performance where a boat loomed over him during Fitzcarraldo to his film fame in The Commitments and Once— and reflecting on his death at 56 in a Dublin motorcycle accident, a life that felt like living cinema for his fans.
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