Wednesday, December 31, 2008EBERT SINGS FOR SITAWow -- check out Roger Ebert's love letter to "Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You" Gotham winner Sita Sings the Blues on his blog this week. Here's how he begins: 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." That's my home town. It is titled Sita Sings the Blues. I know nothing about it, and the plot description on IMDb is not exactly a barn-burner: An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. Uh, huh. I carefully file it with other movies I will watch when they introduce the 8-day week. There's a lot more that follows, including a discussion of the film's music rights blues and a comments thread that's up to almost 100 responses. Comments (0) |
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