http://www.uniondocs.org/sita-sings-the-blues/ Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:23:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.uniondocs.org/sita-sings-the-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-2223 Sita Sings the Blues now screening at IFC Center – UnionDocs Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:12:14 +0000 http://www.uniondocs.org/?p=1530#comment-2223 [...] to see Sita Sings the Blues on the big screen at the IFC Center.  UnionDocs recently had a great screening of Sita which brought up some interesting concerns about its classification as a [...] [...] to see Sita Sings the Blues on the big screen at the IFC Center.  UnionDocs recently had a great screening of Sita which brought up some interesting concerns about its classification as a [...]

]]> http://www.uniondocs.org/sita-sings-the-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-1866 Is Sita Sings the Blues a Documentary? – UnionDocs Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:25:28 +0000 http://www.uniondocs.org/?p=1530#comment-1866 [...] Sita Sings the Blues never really feels like a documentary. It is not merely that the film is drawn rather than photographed, or that it is packed with unmotivated musical interludes. These tactics have all appeared in other films more convincingly categorized as documentary, but Nina Paley’s film is loosened from whatever strand ties those movies to a larger non-fiction ethic. It seems a disservice to the film itself, and to an expansive definition of documentary, to label it as such. [...] [...] Sita Sings the Blues never really feels like a documentary. It is not merely that the film is drawn rather than photographed, or that it is packed with unmotivated musical interludes. These tactics have all appeared in other films more convincingly categorized as documentary, but Nina Paley’s film is loosened from whatever strand ties those movies to a larger non-fiction ethic. It seems a disservice to the film itself, and to an expansive definition of documentary, to label it as such. [...]

]]>