LINK: Sita Sings the Blues to air in full on PBS http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/EqGIL5jnVgA/sita-sings-the-blues.html Shared by Matt via BOING BOING. Nina Paley’s brilliant — and troubled — animated short “Sita Sings the Blues” will air on PBS. This is the critically acclaimed short film that blends Hindu traditional stories with jazz-era music, whose distribution has been stopped […]
Mardi Gras, about 70 years ago, New Orleans LA. Amateur (silent) film from the Prelinger Archives: New Orleans Carnival Week, February 22, 1941. Mardi Gras this year is tomorrow, Tuesday February 24, 2009. Go to Source
“The Dude” Art Print by Ben Swift (Second Edition) After much debate, Ben Swift has indeed decided to release a second edition of his popular Lebowski-themed art print, “The Dude”. It’s a 12? x 16? screenprint, has an edition of 180, and costs $20. These will likely go pretty fast, so grab one now in […]
Irony Alert: Unabomber’s Stuff to Be Auctioned Off Online [The Crazies] A San Francisco court ruled that the writings and possessions of Theodore Kaczynski, the famed Unabomber and enemy of internets everywhere, will be sold online to pay restitution to his victims’ families. Ah, the irony. Kaczynski had appealed from jail that sale of his […]
If a movie only exists on film but no one is around to distribute it, does it still exist? Shared by Matt I had some dealings with NEW YORKER when I booked films at the Tulane campus. Great stuff, and nice people.” New Yorker Films, the only US distributor of many of the films of […]