Individual Filmmakers - International Film - Biography
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Overview
India's preeminent film director, Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) came to public attention in 1955 with Pather Panchali, the first installment of what became known as the Apu trilogy. It was the motion picture that introduced Indian cinema to the West. Initially critics considered Ray a poetic chronicler of Bengali village life, but soon he showed himself adept at making movies that incorporate contemporary urban life (Branches of the Tree), Indian history (The Lonely Wife), comedy (The Philosopher's Stone), musical fantasy (Kingdom of Diamonds), children's subjects (The Golden Fortress), and even documentary elements (Rabindranath Tagore). Satyajit Ray: Interviews reveals a genial, generous, unpretentious, immensely knowledgeable man who, for all his fame, remained to the end amusedly indifferent to movie-world glamour.Book Details
Published
January 1, 2007
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pages
226
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781578069378