Sita, Rama, Annette Hanshaw
Sita Sings the Blues is a multilayered Ramayana, an amazing display of animation prowess and Sita sings in the voice of 1920s jazz singer Annette Hanshaw. It’s neater than I make it sound. Make some time.
“You Are My Drawing Monkey”
The Way of the Smock trailer: how illustrated books are made. At least by John Paul Fiorentino and Evan Munday. It seems like a kinda toxic work environment.
Bond, Jane Bond
Back in the day, HK studios assumed films with male leads couldn’t cut it in the theaters. So during the 1960s spy era, Hong Kong had Jane Bond films featuring masked spies in catsuits way before Maggie Cheung in Irma Vep. TarsTarkas gathers the resources all in one […]
See the Fury!
Black and white wuxia? Animated chi? See the devastating fury of Buddha’s Palm!
Aerial City 008: Operation Spring
1960s Japanese science fiction Supermarionation. Scary or supercool? (Scroll down for a complete episode of Aerial City 008).
Commentary Worth Having
Linda Holmes writes about commentary worth listening to in a sort of meta-review of This American Life‘s second season DVD set.
The Cultural Gutter 