Posted on December 22, 2009, 6:59pm by Charlotte Slivka

Go to the movies!

For those of us staying in town over the (much needed) holiday break, here is something very highly recommended from the NYICFF. Playing downtown at the IFC (formerly the Walverly), this is one of the most amitious and imaginative animated films I have ever seen put out by an independent film maker. There are a few “A” words but that should not stop any family. Be surprised, enlightened, and delighted, and make money for the school! Remember every ticket purchased online using our school code “Neighborhood School PS 363″, will earn us $3. Amazing I know....

STARTS DEC 25 FOR ONE WEEK ONLY!

“SITA SINGS THE BLUES”

Q&A with filmmaker Nina Paley, nightly at 8:25pm

ROGER EBERT: “ASTONISHINGLY ORIGINAL! I AM ENCHANTED. I AM SWEPT AWAY. I AM SMILING FROM ONE END OF THE FILM TO THE OTHER! It brings together four entirely separate elements and combines them into a great whimsical chord. A miracle!”

Sita tickets make perfect stocking stuffers! For showtimes and to purchase tickets click here.
http://www.gkids.tv/intheaters.cfm

SITA SINGS THE BLUES

In English - Recommended ages 9 to adult

Fri Dec 25 to Thurs Dec 31

IFC Center, 323 Sixth Avenue (at West Third)

Filmmaker Q&A nightly at 8:25pm show

For showtimes and to purchase tickets click here.

SITA SINGS THE BLUES

Animation, USA, Nina Paley, 2008, 82 min, in English

Tragedy, comedy and musical collide in this gloriously animated film from Nina Paley, New York’s own “One Woman Pixar” (Wired Magazine). Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three bickering shadow puppets with Indian accents act as comic narrators as these old and new stories are interwoven in a post-modern retelling of the ancient Indian epic, Ramayana, animated in a dazzling mix of traditional and collage animation styles. Sita Sings the Blues follows in the line of Triplets of Belleville and Spirited Away to exemplify animation as a “serious” art form -- which does not stop it from being laugh-out-loud funny. A panoply of monsters, gods, goddesses, warriors, sages, pyromaniac monkeys and winged eyeballs fills the screen with vivid color from start to finish, while the narrators’ improvisational debates over the Rama legend join the filmmaker’s own tragicomic story to layer a modern feminist commentary on the ancient Indian legend. The result is a subtly subversive, visually stunning, highly original work that is as enjoyable for children as it is for adults.

For showtimes and to purchase tickets click here.
http://www.gkids.tv/intheaters.cfm

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