[CU-Movies] Beyond Roger Ebert's Journal - More on "Sita" and Nina Paley

[Jenifer Cartwright]

THANKS for sending this, Dan! So now I've read thru all this stuff and am completely   hooked on Nina Paley's situation as an artist and (ESPECIALLY!!) her imaginative and captivating film, Sita Sings the Blues which combines (of ALL things!) songs from 1920s jazz vocalist Annette Hanshaw (say, who???) and Paley's wonderfully conceiverd, drawn and animated version of a classic Indian folk tale and it's modern-day parallels... and IT WORKS!! And no, it's nothing remotely like Hollywood meets Bollywood. In fact, it's not remotely like anything I've ever seen before. You can check out the links below, and see (hear) for yourselves... or just keep yr fingers crossed and hope that Roger Ebert really does choose this film for April 2009's Eberfest. 
 
YouTube links for clips of Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues
(worth following just to hear Annette Hanshaw)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y5_zJ1xfQs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWuokqv706M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3fa1KVU4vM&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGfru1qrfac&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4wAA2eVXjo
 
More on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sita_Sings_the_Blues
 
And imdb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1172203/
 
And finally, a link to an interview w/ Urbana's own Nina Paley (and another indie filmmaker) at Tribeca 2008 Film Festival.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yAL0qAK7MM&feature=related
 
 
 
 --Jenifer


--- On Thu, 1/1/09, Daniel Lewart <lewart3 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Daniel Lewart <lewart3 at gmail.com>
Subject: [CU-Movies] Having a wonderful time, wish you could hear - Roger Ebert's Journal
To: "C-U at the Movies" <cu-movies at lists.chambana.net>
Date: Thursday, January 1, 2009, 3:03 PM

C-U @ The Movies,

Having a wonderful time, wish you could hear - Roger Ebert's Journal:
       
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/12/having_wonderful_time_wish_you.html

"It hardly ever happens this way. I get a DVD in the mail
I'm told it's an animated film directed by 'a girl from
Urbana.' ..."

Happy New Year!
Dan
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