Tag: Roger Ebert
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Around the Corner
Charles Hanson Towne’s poem seems as pertinent in the digital world as the old one, everyone is so busy after they are 20 or 30 that indeed old friends get lost. This is adapted from the great Zen Pencils comic – I really recommend looking at Zen Pencils, I’m more into the ones based on…
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Sita Sings the Blues; or why music licensing stifles creativity
Sita Sings The Blues is a wonderful film mixing a Sanskirt ancient epic with great 1920’s music and incredible animation. Nina Paley spent 3 years doing this I think partly autobiographical animation – in parts incredibly breathtaking, laugh-out-loud funny, charming, and moving. So can you see it? I mean those 1920’s songs must be out…