Updates, Live: Satyajit Ray

Pather Panchali (1955)
Subir Bannerjee as Apu

I had the opportunity to watch only the Apu Trilogy from all Ray's filmography. I have also a DVD copy with The Chess Players, I will watch it very soon.

I consider Pather Panchali the greatest masterpiece in the universe of movies.

Aparajito (1956)
Apu becomes a student

I firstly learned about Satyajit Ray long time ago, from a book about India, written by an Austrian journalist. When I came to US, I was immediately interested to watch some of his movies, to find out that it was very hard to find DVD copies with his work. I succeeded eventualy to buy the Apu Trilogy and the Chess Players: that is all I found.

The World of Apu (1959)
Apu becomes a husband and father

The quality of the DVD copies is poor, and for this reason watching these movies requires an effort. But you are rewarded.

Devi (1960)
A remarkable exploration of religious madness

I haven't yet written anything about Satyajit Ray: it would be like shouting in an enormous space somewhere in cosmos (I am paraphrasing here a splendid sentence Arghezi wrote about Eminescu). I should take my courage one day.

Kanchenjungha (1962)
A few hours in the lives of a wealthy Calcutta family vacationing in Darjeeling

I feel after writing about his movies there would be no more need to write about anything else.

Mahanagar (1963)
A struggling middle-class family have just a bit less income than they require and have to make awkward choices

I opened this thread today, as I have found an article about him in today's NY Times. I will post it.

Charulata (1964)
This radiant movie takes place in Calcutta in 1880, and its characters, educated and well off, spend a lot of their time in earnest discussion of literature and politics of the day