Rec: Sita Sings the Blues

[neotoma]

I think I'm going to get myself a copy of Sita Sings the Blues, having seen it through Netflix. It's an amazing story, and the art shifts are not only gorgeous, but well support the interweaving tales of Nina Paley (who made this movie on her computer) and Sita and Rama. The use of Annette Hanshaw's songs from the 1920s makes for a wonderful conceit for the film, which you should all watch.

Fortunately, it's on a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License, so if you want to download it an watch it, you can.

But I think I'll buy a copy when I can afford it -- because art like this needs to be supported. And maybe I need to finally read the Ramayana...

Comments

[pleasance]

I love Sita Sings the Blues. The Annette Hanshaw songs are the best part for me.

[neotoma]

I think my favorite part is when the three narrators shadow-puppets start talking about how Ravanna wasn't that bad a guy ... because it sounds just like my friends when we start discussing alternate character interpretations for Doctor Who or some other show.

Humans, we're not actually all that different from each other :D

Have you listened to the Nina Paley's commentary track? It's a lot of fun.

[mistalagan]

Hey, you've heard of that! I saw it several years back, and don't remember much of it except that it was awesome. Should go watch it again.

I've been a bit incommunicado lately, but do you still need any help/last minute read-throughs of your GBB?

[neotoma]

You should definitely watch it again, especially because you can download it free!

Oh, god yes. My GBB is a mess.

[mistalagan]

Cool. Should I go off the posted version or do you have a more recent one?

[neotoma]

Sadly, I haven't added anything substantial to the posted version -- not even tonight, when I planned to write stuff. But if you want, I can also send it to you in Rich Text Format

[mistalagan]

Sounds good – I can pull it from the posted easy. Do you happen to have Word/something else with a comment function?

[neotoma]

I use Open Office, which takes comments/track changes fine.