SFotD: ‘An Illustrated Talk with Maurice Sendak’ is Bittersweet Delight

Why Watch? Christoph Niemann’s animation makes an excellent dance partner to Maurice Sendak’s reflections on life. Poignant and responsible for a few square inches of heartbreak, Sendak’s insight into death is powerful. It’s also graceful.

We don’t to miss you either, Mr. Sendak. But we do.

What will it cost? Only 5 minutes.

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Scott Beggs: Movie stuff at VanityFair, Thrillist, IndieWire, Film School Rejects, and The Broken Projector Podcast@brokenprojector | Writing short stories at Adventitious.
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