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Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker 9780755699896, 9781860649653
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Preface to the Second Edition
For Krishna and for my parents
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The Inner Eye
‘The eye, which is said to be the window of the soul, is the primary means by which the brain may most fully and magnificently contemplate the infinite works of nature . . .’ Leonardo da Vinci ‘All great civilisations have been based on loitering.’ Jean Renoir ‘I do not put my faith in any new institutions, but in the individuals all over the world who think clearly, feel nobly and act rightly. They are the channels of moral truth.’ Rabindranath Tagore
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Preface to the Second Edition IN the summer of 2002, the National Film Theatre in London announced the first-ever complete retrospective of Satyajit Ray’s films. Some of the prints were coming from the Academy Film Archive in Hollywood, which had magnificently restored the image and sound; these had been seen only in the United States. Here was an opportunity too rare to miss, and I decided to see every film again on the big screen (and Ray’s long-lost documentary Sikkim for the first time). From the opening night, when Ravi Shankar – now in his eighties but still vigorously perform
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Satyajit Ray
Indian filmmaker and writer (1921–1992)
Satyajit Ray (Bengali:[ˈʃotːodʒitˈrae̯]ⓘ; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian film director, screenwriter, author, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. Ray is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential film directors in the history of cinema.[7][8][9][10][11] He is celebrated for works including The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959),[12]The Music Room (1958), The Big City (1963), Charulata (1964), and the Goopy–Bagha trilogy (1969–1992).[a]
Ray was born in Calcutta to author Sukumar Ray and Suprabha Ray. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent film-making after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film Bicycle Thieves (1948) during a visit to London.
Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries, and shorts. Ray's first film, Pather Panchali (1955), won eleven international prizes, including the inaugural Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. This film, along with Aparajito (1956) and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) (1959), form The Apu Trilogy. Ray did the scri
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