Ray, who drew inspiration from the Italian neorealists and Jean Renoir (the latter a friend and adviser), hadn’t even planned to make a sequel. He decided to follow Apu’s journey further only ...

Still, following Criterion’s recent release of “The Apu Trilogy” on Blu-Ray, I have to demur, if just a bit, after having watched it in toto. Following the entire continuity of our protagonist’s ...

Even before The Simpsons, the whole world knew the name Apu. That began with an unprecedented portrait of rural Indian boyhood in Satyajit Ray's 1955 debut Pather Panchali (which won Best Director and ...

Because how do you grade a Satyajit Ray film? I kept Subrata Mitra's work in mind and the work we did in the early films, especially the Apu trilogy. ANDERSON But you have no other reference.

Devi follows the triumphant "Apu" trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu) of India's young producerdirector, Satyajit Ray. If it does not quite measure up to the earlier ...

Two Daughters. The magic of India's Satyajit Ray, who directed the Apu trilogy and Devi, lies in his ability to translate the life around him into such universal terms that Western audiences see ...

Course Credits: 3 Semester (s) Offered Spring 2015 Catalog Description Study of films designed as trilogies, drawing on a wide range of international cinema. Films include Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy ...

Satyajit Ray's 1955 masterpiece is the first in his Apu trilogy. The Bengali feature, which put India on the world cinema map, is further elevated by Pandit Ravi Shankar’s beautifully composed ...

The Oscars academy has restored a rare print of a controversial film by India's famed director Satyajit Ray that was banned by Indian censors for glorifying monarchy in a Himalayan kingdom that ...

They are silent when Satyajit Ray’s ancestral home is demolished. Indeed, they are complicit to the systematic erasure of Bengali Hindu identity in Bangladesh.” ...