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Free Annette Hanshaw “Sita” soundtrack!
Music collector Matthew Lanoue has made available as free downloads the Annette Hanshaw songs used in Sita Sings the Blues. These recordings are only available anywhere due to the efforts of record collectors, NOT Big Media corporations. Thanks Matthew!
Update – today, October 18, is Annette Hanshaw’s birthday! How’s that for fortuitous timing? Hat tip to Stewart and Steven for emailing me.
Sita Sings the Blues’ Tribeca Publicity Roundup
TV and Radio:
Morning Edition, WNYC
My First Time, WNBC
Magazines:
Premiere’s Top 10 Films of Tribeca 2008
“wittily written, brilliantly acted”
—Variety“beautifully audacious”
—Premiere“One-Woman Pixar”
—Wired“a unique depiction of the epic”
—Zee News“…both heartfelt and consistently witty, the type of low-fi animated musical that puts Disney to shame.”
—FilmMaker Magazine/IFP“a strange and beautiful little film”
—Spout“funny and eye-popping and never bogs down.”
—Nerve“One of the best films playing at the…Tribeca Film Festival this year”
—New York Magazine
Other Blogs:
“mind-blowing…The overall look of the film was fantastic; the graphics stunning and the flow between parallel threads excellent.”
— apercevoir“…a triumph of individual creation.”
—JTAbron“It’s touching, encouraging, fun, and educational. I LOVE IT!”
—tiny blog“The narration was hilarious, the quality of animation never faltered no matter what the style and the songs were the most incredible fit – astonishing that a jazz song from the 1920’s would match exactly with a story from ~500 BC. “
—Yewknee/Michael Eades“beautiful, funny, and kind of brilliant.”
—Two-Timing My Scrapbook“Hopefully this movie finds its way to Thailand in order to give people a glimpse of how traditional material can still be meaningful today.”
–comment on Thai Film Journal
Morning Edition
You gotta get up pretty early in the morning to hear Sita Sings the Blues mentioned on the radio. That’s what will supposedly happen on WNYC tomorrow (Tuesday April 22) around 6:30ish (FM) and 8:30ish (AM), during Morning Edition. I think it’s local only, but you can hear it online (hour 2, about mid-way through). That’s what I’m gonna do, since I plan to be asleep when it airs live. (Big ups to Publicity Bitch, whose work seems to be paying off.)