Comments on: Sita Sings the Blues http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/02/18/sita-sings-the-blues/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Pooja Kohli http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/02/18/sita-sings-the-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-662 Pooja Kohli Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:08:03 +0000 http://www.artofthetitle.com/?p=1792#comment-662 SITA SINGS THE BLUES DVD RELEASE AND LAUNCH PARTY IN NYC ON JULY 28 FilmKaravan cordially invites you to celebrate the DVD Release of the critically acclaimed and festival-favorite film, SITA SINGS THE BLUES. View the invite - http://tinyurl.com/nmy3h7 Rent now on Netflix or buy on Amazon. New York Times - http://tinyurl.com/nt9x39 Trailer- http://tinyurl.com/79sv6n Queue it on Netflix - http://tinyurl.com/kuzhg4 Pre-Book on Amazon - http://tinyurl.com/mp7t3j SITA SINGS THE BLUES DVD RELEASE AND LAUNCH PARTY IN NYC ON JULY 28

FilmKaravan cordially invites you to celebrate the DVD Release of the critically acclaimed and festival-favorite film, SITA SINGS THE BLUES. View the invite – http://tinyurl.com/nmy3h7

Rent now on Netflix or buy on Amazon.
New York Times – http://tinyurl.com/nt9x39
Trailer- http://tinyurl.com/79sv6n
Queue it on Netflix – http://tinyurl.com/kuzhg4
Pre-Book on Amazon – http://tinyurl.com/mp7t3j

]]> By: Nina Paley http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/02/18/sita-sings-the-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-526 Nina Paley Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:10:52 +0000 http://www.artofthetitle.com/?p=1792#comment-526 Jordan is correct - that is Laxmi. Thanks Jordan, for the compliments also. And thanks Ian, who is making all the high quality compressions of "Sita" which are now the sources for all other copies. Heroic! Jordan is correct – that is Laxmi. Thanks Jordan, for the compliments also.

And thanks Ian, who is making all the high quality compressions of “Sita” which are now the sources for all other copies. Heroic!

]]> By: Jordan S. http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/02/18/sita-sings-the-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-525 Jordan S. Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:16:36 +0000 http://www.artofthetitle.com/?p=1792#comment-525 A correction: the opening titles do not feature Sītā but Lakshmī, whom Sītā is one of the human incarnations of, as far as modern, standardised Hinduism and Paley's film are concerned. Though Sītā is a form of Lakshmī, their character designs in the film are quite different. But let's not dwell on errata; the prologue sequence with Lakshmī and the firework-ish bursts of energy that followed (which looked to be re-used from or in the style of those in the Agni Pariksha sequence, if I remember correctly, though I found them more even impressive when shown "solo" here) were my favourite part of the film – a film which, I might add, truly comes into its own when seen on 35 mm film; the finishing touch of conversion to an analogue format combining with the choice of colours and ambient movement of the hair and water gives an extraordinarily velvety feel to this scene in particular. The Agni Pariksha and cartoon musical sequences retain their strength for being the emotional heart from which all else grew but the more external ones which were presumably done later felt more impressive and understandably more experienced and confident in terms of animation, even if they were actually less complex (with more complex characters but not so many moving about at once). A correction: the opening titles do not feature Sītā but Lakshmī, whom Sītā is one of the human incarnations of, as far as modern, standardised Hinduism and Paley’s film are concerned. Though Sītā is a form of Lakshmī, their character designs in the film are quite different.

But let’s not dwell on errata; the prologue sequence with Lakshmī and the firework-ish bursts of energy that followed (which looked to be re-used from or in the style of those in the Agni Pariksha sequence, if I remember correctly, though I found them more even impressive when shown “solo” here) were my favourite part of the film – a film which, I might add, truly comes into its own when seen on 35 mm film; the finishing touch of conversion to an analogue format combining with the choice of colours and ambient movement of the hair and water gives an extraordinarily velvety feel to this scene in particular.

The Agni Pariksha and cartoon musical sequences retain their strength for being the emotional heart from which all else grew but the more external ones which were presumably done later felt more impressive and understandably more experienced and confident in terms of animation, even if they were actually less complex (with more complex characters but not so many moving about at once).

]]> By: Art of the Title http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/02/18/sita-sings-the-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-524 Art of the Title Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:11:59 +0000 http://www.artofthetitle.com/?p=1792#comment-524 Art of the Title is handling the encoding, and you'll find a flac file at the following url: <a href="http://ia331425.us.archive.org/2/items/Sita_Sings_the_Blues/Sita_Sings_the_Blues_audio_only.flac" target=blank rel="nofollow">Sita_Sings_the_Blues_audio_only</a> For some reason it hasn't shown up in the main listing yet, so the above is a direct link. We're also currently working on a couple of DVD versions, and I'm hoping to get those up by the end of this week. Ian - Editor, Art of the Title Art of the Title is handling the encoding, and you’ll find a flac file at the following url: Sita_Sings_the_Blues_audio_only

For some reason it hasn’t shown up in the main listing yet, so the above is a direct link.

We’re also currently working on a couple of DVD versions, and I’m hoping to get those up by the end of this week.

Ian
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Editor, Art of the Title

]]> By: Drakar http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/02/18/sita-sings-the-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-523 Drakar Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:40:54 +0000 http://www.artofthetitle.com/?p=1792#comment-523 Thanks so much for posting the different versions on archive.org - i'm assuming it was you guys, since nina credits you in her blog entries. The 1080p encoding is truly flawless - not an artifact or a lag to be found. I was wondering if you would post a lossless version of the movie's audio track? A wav is only about a gig and a flac would be maybe half that - I'm interested in making ac3 for dvd / avchd encodings, and/or a high-quality ogg for use in a .mkv container - but i wouldn't feel right transcoding it from the current aac... thanks! -Drakar Thanks so much for posting the different versions on archive.org – i’m assuming it was you guys, since nina credits you in her blog entries. The 1080p encoding is truly flawless – not an artifact or a lag to be found.
I was wondering if you would post a lossless version of the movie’s audio track? A wav is only about a gig and a flac would be maybe half that – I’m interested in making ac3 for dvd / avchd encodings, and/or a high-quality ogg for use in a .mkv container – but i wouldn’t feel right transcoding it from the current aac…
thanks!
-Drakar

]]> By: Muiz http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/02/18/sita-sings-the-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-522 Muiz Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:14:33 +0000 http://www.artofthetitle.com/?p=1792#comment-522 i LOVE this sequence - the shapes seem to fit perfectly and the music (the score is always so important as we know) is just spot on again - I love the heart beat sequence in the trailer. Though a friendly suggestion - perhaps reconsider the typeface for the title of the site? :) Otherwise - Im loving your work! i LOVE this sequence – the shapes seem to fit perfectly and the music (the score is always so important as we know) is just spot on again – I love the heart beat sequence in the trailer.

Though a friendly suggestion – perhaps reconsider the typeface for the title of the site? :)

Otherwise – Im loving your work!

]]> By: Jim http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/02/18/sita-sings-the-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-520 Jim Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:45:31 +0000 http://www.artofthetitle.com/?p=1792#comment-520 I'm glad you guys did a post on this one. I just read about it in "Filmmaker" magazine; the whole fair-use debacle Paley has had to endure is really ridiculous! Of additional relevance to your site (which I really dig, btw): did you know that an Oscar for "Best Title Design" was proposed & rejected a decade ago? I find it disappointing -- but not surprising -- that it was not only rejected, but was only proposed such a short while ago. "Pink Panther" and "Dr. Strangelove" totally would've gone head-to-head for that award in '64!! I’m glad you guys did a post on this one. I just read about it in “Filmmaker” magazine; the whole fair-use debacle Paley has had to endure is really ridiculous!

Of additional relevance to your site (which I really dig, btw): did you know that an Oscar for “Best Title Design” was proposed & rejected a decade ago? I find it disappointing — but not surprising — that it was not only rejected, but was only proposed such a short while ago.

“Pink Panther” and “Dr. Strangelove” totally would’ve gone head-to-head for that award in ’64!!

]]> By: Nick Dingle http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/02/18/sita-sings-the-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-521 Nick Dingle Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:13:42 +0000 http://www.artofthetitle.com/?p=1792#comment-521 Good work on both this excellent article and the new site design! Enjoying it... Good work on both this excellent article and the new site design! Enjoying it…

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