A melodramatic story and a refined filmmaking touch meet each other halfway in "The Sleepy Time Gal." Third feature by Christopher Munch feels like an attempt by a fastidious artist to nudge himself ...

Towering above other films so far previewed for the Los Angeles Film Festival, which commences Friday at various venues, is Christopher Munch’s “The Sleepy Time Gal.” Munch first came to attention ...

When Jacqueline Bisset got the script for "Sleepy Time Gal," an indie film in which she plays a woman dying of cancer, friends begged her not to do it. "They said, 'Oh Jackie, don't die. For God's ...

Keely Smith cannot remember the first song she ever sang as a paid professional. But she clearly remembers both of the songs she performed at an audition with the late Louis Prima in 1948. She sang ...

(indieWIRE/01.26.01) — With his third feature, “The Sleepy Time Gal,” the highly gifted director Christopher Munch has adroitly merged the romantic elusiveness of “The Hours and Times” with the poetic ...

The first thirty seconds of a listening experience sets the tone. The disc spins, and music emerges. It's Richard Whiting's "Sleepy Time Gal." And it just might be the loveliest thing pianist Pamela ...

The tale of a lonely, cancer-stricken woman and the long-lost daughter who quietly seeks a reunion, Christopher Münch's The Sleepy Time Gal calls to mind the classic "female weepies" of the '30s and ...