Daily post 17 Nov 2007 09:32 am
Busy Day
There are a lot of animation events around my world today.
- The MP Academy is holding their screening for the animated shorts that are eligible for __nomination. The program starts at 11:30 today and will go for the length of the films (with
__a break for lunch.) I’m assuming I won’t be done with that until 7PM. I expect that the
__films will be as they usually are:
____There are the great ones that undeniably should be nominated.
____There are those that are just good and do not stand up.
____There are those that you can’t wait to get on with it. The dull.
__Since I don’t know how many films, nor any of the titles to be screened, I’ll report on this
__screening after the fact.
- In LA, there’s the Raggedy Ann reunion. Jim Hill has a great article on this in case you’d
__like to know more about it. They will show a 35mm print of the film (thanks to Mark
__Kausler) and will chat about the experience of working on the film. It was intended that
__we would have a NY version of the event at the same time so that the Raggedy people
__in NY could feel as though they were a part of it. However, given the long
__Academy screening scheduled for us, given the lack of a suitable copy of the film to
__screen, and given the lack of a space to hold the event, it’s obvious we weren’t able to
__have it here. The timing isn’t right, I guess. Raggedy Ann, the film, always did suffer the
__fate of being an “also ran.”
__If you’re in LA, go to it. The film has moments worth seeing, and the chat should be fun.
_______Raggedy Ann & Andy Reunion
_______November 17th at 3pm
_______Mark Goodsen Auditorium
_______American Film Institute
_______2021 N. Western Bl
_______Hollywood, CA
– Nina Paley will hold a preview screening of her
__82 mins. feature film, Sita Sings The Blues.
__Nina says:”We’ll screen the whole 82-minute
__feature on DVD, then the 3-minute 35mm film
__test of “Battle of Lanka,†so you can see just how
__gorgeous it looks on film.”
__Saturday, November 17, 7:00 pm and 9:00pm
__NYU Tisch School of the Arts
__room 006, (lower level)
__721 Broadway
____between Waverly Place and Washington Place
__New York City
__Free!
__If you want to attend the New York screening,
__please RSVP with “Sita NY†in the subject, to:
_______Nina_Paley@Yahoo.com.
__Space is limited, and priority will be given to
__those with names on the list. This is just a sneak preview;
__“the bigger and better genuine premiere will happen in 2008.”
__The 7pm show is full, so you probably should expect to go to the 9pm show if you’d like
__to see it.
Finally, I’d like to direct you to the monthly column in today’s NYTimes by cartoonist, James Stevenson. His work is just about my favorite these days, and this piece is excellent. It’s called “Balloons Over Broadway” and tells the story of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
