OUR FILMS THEIR FILMS by Satyajit RayRobinson, Andrew
Technical Specs Director:Satyajit Ray Year:1958 Duration:99 min Alternate Title:Jalsaghar
Satyajit Ray is one of the world's major filmmakers. Ray came from a family of Bengali intellectuals; the family had a close association with that of the famed Bengali novelist Rabindranath Tagore. Ray was vastly multi-talented. He was a painter, novelist and composer as well as being a ...
From the beginning of his career as a filmmaker, Satyajit Ray was interested in finding ways to reveal the mind and thoughts of his characters. Because the range of his sympathy was wide, he has been accused of softening the presence of evil in his cinematic world. But a director who aims...
There’s plenty of sadness here, but also lots of humor and camaraderie, recalling certain films by Satyajit Ray, such as The World of Apu and The Big City, in which small-town folks give up a part of themselves as they shift to urban living. — JORDAN MINTZER Related Stories TV ...
The films of Indian director Satyajit Ray have long inspired Scorsese, with the “Goodfellas” director often crediting Ray’s 1955 debut “Pather Panchali” with first opening his eyes to Indian culture. Scorsese’s Film Foundation played a role in restoring Ray’s 1977 feature ‘The Chess Pla...
An Enemy of the People Satyajit Ray India, 1989 534 L’enfance nue Maurice Pialat France, 1968 398 Les enfants terribles Jean-Pierre Melville France, 1950 Enter the Dragon Robert Clouse Hong Kong, 1973 EO Jerzy Skolimowski Poland, 2022 Epidemic Lars von Trier Denmark, 1987 338 Equin...
Scholars have discussed Indian film director, Satyajit Ray's films in a myriad of ways. However, there is paucity of literature that examines Ray's two films, Goopy Gayen Bagha Bayen (Adventures of Goopy and Bagha 1968) and its sequel Hirak Rajar Deshe (The Diamond King 1980). Even when...
In Satyajit Ray’s absorbing contemporary adaptation of a play by Henrik Ibsen, a good-hearted doctor discovers that the serious illness befalling the citizens of his small Bengali town may be due to a contamination of the holy water at the local temple. His findings are met not with public...
Satyajit Ray burst onto the international film scene in 1955 with the release of his debut film,Pather Panchali, and though he didn’t intend it to be the first in a trilogy, its success led Ray to continue the story inAparajito(1956) andApur Sansar(1959). Taken together, the three fi...