OK, Sita Sings the Blues is odd, even by my standards... but it simply works. Basically, through a rotating pack of art and animation styles, the old Indian story Ramayana gets told (in a couple of different ways), interspersed with both a story of the film creator's own breakup and "musical numbers" set to 1920s-era recordings. The musical numbers in particular caught my attention: the art and animation stylings struck me as the sort of thing that cartoon studios back in that era might have done, if color were available/affordable... and are especially fun to watch when they're depicting fight scenes in cute counterpoint to the lyrics in play.
I list this as a DVD pick because you can get it that way (especially fun if you care about extras like subtitles, including LOLspeak subtitles)... but, if you just want to check it out now, it's available online through its own website, here. You won't miss that hour and a half anyways... :)
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