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Sita Sings The Blues |  | Director: Nina Paley
Actors: Annette Hanshaw, Aseem Chhabra, Bhavana Nagulapally, Manish Acharya, Reena Shah
Studio: FilmKaravan
Category: DVD
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 15263
Format: Anamorphic, NTSC, Widescreen, Color
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 0
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Running Time: 82 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 792097352918
UPC: 792097352918
EAN: 0792097352918
ASIN: B002G50002
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: July 28, 2009
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Amazing depth July 21, 2009
Ramesh Ramaswamy (Ojai CA.)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
A film of amazing emotional depth , Sita Sings the Blues is not merely animated personal mythology. The film combines the creative talents of cartoonist Nina Paley with a selection of (what are now) standards from the 1920's Blues singer Annette Hanshaw (think Bessie smith without the lugubriousness) and some honest pictorial rendering of the Indian myth "The Ramayana".
Sita Sings the Blues is Pre-Cinema. If much of today's Hollywood film scripting owes itself to comic books, this film fits easily within the creative embryo of the genre and produces a minimalist ,illustrated video comic that blends disparate audio and visual styles with a narrative personal mythology , so original that it is capable of influencing a whole genration of artists and filmmakers.
Sita's story (the Ramayana is a very well known tale and Ill skip repeating the epic here) has always been the lost voice in the telling of the epic. "The blues" corrects this historical slight in a very satisfying way.
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Charming, Lush, Amazing. October 25, 2009
L. Taylor
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Imagine a Betty Boop-embodied Hindu goddess, batting obscenely gigantic eyes in an A.D.D.-friendly, cleverly-animated Indian folktale/comedic tragedy. Sita's Mystery Science Theater-style commentary is mashed with a San Francisco love-story; overlain with the sexy, smoky 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw; and is all elegantly smashed into a colorful, creative, masterpiece landmark in illustrative storytelling.
Talented animator Nina Paley further exhibits badassness, by redefining copyright definitions and movie distribution, and by encouraging free public screenings.
Support new media distribution, and enjoy this amazing film.
Beautiful, funny, tragic, unique - a must see! July 20, 2009
dafilmmaker (los angeles, CA)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
An incredible film, often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, always entertaining. I was impressed that such totally different elements - a tragic Hindu epic, a failed modern marriage, a 1920's blues singer and an eclectic assortment of animation styles - could all blend together so seamlessly. A must see!
Hard to describe - so much fun to watch... July 20, 2009
Rich W. (Seattle, WA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
An animated musical treatment of the Ramayana full of humor and a questioning, feminist slant. Great all around. The "sings the blues" part of the title is from the fact that almost all of the all the singing is jazz recordings of Annette Hanshaw from the 1920's. It's almost impossible to give this film it's proper due in words. You just need to give it a try. I originally saw this film in 2008 at the Seattle International Film Festival. Even after a year where I attended three international film festivals and saw probably 200 films it was still one of the most positively memorably things I'd seen.
I found the film laugh-out-loud funny, interesting and great to both watch and listen to. One frequent filmgoer who'd read the Ramayana earlier in his life mentioned that on top of really liking the film as entertainment it made many points he'd missed as a child.
There's a long interesting story about what the film maker had to go through to get this DVD released ([...]). But really all you need to know is that this is food stuff, creative story telling, great music, and many laugh out loud moments. Did I mention the flying monkeys?
You can even view this as a companion piece to Religulous given it's ever present skeptical Greek chorus that goes along for the ride. Like animation? - it's got that. Don't like animation? - you'll be laughing too hard to notice. Want a sad story of modern love gone wrong - check. The only thing this film hasn't had going for it was guarantee that you'd be able to see it off the festival circuit. Now that this problem is solved there are no more excuses.
Sita please sing some more! July 22, 2009
Leetae E. Cobb
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Bring it on Amitabh Bachchan and move over Shahrukh Khan, there is a new modern stud in town, Ramayana in the internet sensation Sita Sings the Blues. It is easy to sit down and fall beneath the spell of the animated multi media film. However the strung together story that switches between the modern day and the ancient past is more then the Powder Puff girls 20 centuries ago. The film takes on an old popular Indian epic legend and stirs it up creating a film that transforms the story into an Indian diaspora feminist epic narrative. Exciting for all audiences, the film takes music from Annette Hanshaw throwing the audience into a Bollywood mind set, but captured into the American past. If you want a film that is full of complex dimensions but also a film to giggle along with your friends, I suggest sitting down with the romantic tale of Sita and Rama.
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