Sat July 12, 2014
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray; India, 1955)
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35mm Restored Print!
Introduction with Dilip Basu, research professor of humanities and founding director of the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center at UC Santa Cruz.
The first film in Satyajit Ray's celebrated Apu Trilogy centers around the boy Apu's impoverished Brahmin family living in their ancestral village in rural Bengal. The father is a would-be poet, playwright, and priest; the mother, a realist terrorized by wicked neighbors and the prospect of tomorrow. In his quiet optimism and her despair, the family's days obtain an ongoing rhythm. But the film's unlikely driving force is found in Apu's sister Durga, who will steal all she can of life before death steals her; and in an ancient "Auntie," despised for clinging to life like a withering vine. Ravi Shankar's original score is the musical equivalent of Ray's completely visual storytelling, which is so liquid, so purely cinematic, it's strange to remember that it was based on a well-known 1928 novel. At Cannes this low-budget independent first film won a special prize—Best Human Document. It is still that.
• Written by Ray, based on the novel by Bibhutibhushana Bandyopadhyaya. Photographed by Subrata Mitra. With Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Subir Banerjee, Uma Das Gupta. (122 mins, In Bengali with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, Restored by the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project through a collaboration of the Academy Film Archive, the Merchant-Ivory Foundation, and the Film Foundation, From Academy Film Archive, permission Janus
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Introduction with Dilip Basu, research professor of humanities and founding director of the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center at UC Santa Cruz.
The first film in Satyajit Ray's celebrated Apu Trilogy centers around the boy Apu's impoverished Brahmin family living in their ancestral village in rural Bengal. The father is a would-be poet, playwright, and priest; the mother, a realist terrorized by wicked neighbors and the prospect of tomorrow. In his quiet optimism and her despair, the family's days obtain an ongoing rhythm. But the film's unlikely driving force is found in Apu's sister Durga, who will steal all she can of life before death steals her; and in an ancient "Auntie," despised for clinging to life like a withering vine. Ravi Shankar's original score is the musical equivalent of Ray's completely visual storytelling, which is so liquid, so purely cinematic, it's strange to remember that it was based on a well-known 1928 novel. At Cannes this low-budget independent first film won a special prize—Best Human Document. It is still that.
• Written by Ray, based on the novel by Bibhutibhushana Bandyopadhyaya. Photographed by Subrata Mitra. With Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Subir Banerjee, Uma Das Gupta. (122 mins, In Bengali with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, Restored by the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project through a collaboration of the Academy Film Archive, the Merchant-Ivory Foundation, and the Film Foundation, From Academy Film Archive, permission Janus
Films/Criterion Pictures
35mm Restored Print!
Introduction with Dilip Basu, research professor of humanities and founding director of the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center at UC Santa Cruz.
The first film in Satyajit Ray's celebrated Apu Trilogy centers around the boy Apu's impoverished Brahmin family living in their ancestral village in rural Bengal. The father is a would-be poet, playwright, and priest; the mother, a realist terrorized by wicked neighbors and the prospect of tomorrow. In his quiet optimism and her despair, the family's days obtain an ongoing rhythm. But the film's unlikely driving force is found in Apu's sister Durga, who will steal all she can of life before death steals her; and in an ancient "Auntie," despised for clinging to life like a withering vine. Ravi Shankar's original score is the musical equivalent of Ray's completely visual storytelling, which is so liquid, so purely cinematic, it's strange to remember that it was based on a well-known 1928 novel. At Cannes this low-budget independent first film won a special prize—Best Human Document. It is still that.
• Written by Ray, based on the novel by Bibhutibhushana Bandyopadhyaya. Photographed by Subrata Mitra. With Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Subir Banerjee, Uma Das Gupta. (122 mins, In Bengali with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, Restored by the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project through a collaboration of the Academy Film Archive, the Merchant-Ivory Foundation, and the Film Foundation, From Academy Film Archive, permission Janus
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Introduction with Dilip Basu, research professor of humanities and founding director of the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center at UC Santa Cruz.
The first film in Satyajit Ray's celebrated Apu Trilogy centers around the boy Apu's impoverished Brahmin family living in their ancestral village in rural Bengal. The father is a would-be poet, playwright, and priest; the mother, a realist terrorized by wicked neighbors and the prospect of tomorrow. In his quiet optimism and her despair, the family's days obtain an ongoing rhythm. But the film's unlikely driving force is found in Apu's sister Durga, who will steal all she can of life before death steals her; and in an ancient "Auntie," despised for clinging to life like a withering vine. Ravi Shankar's original score is the musical equivalent of Ray's completely visual storytelling, which is so liquid, so purely cinematic, it's strange to remember that it was based on a well-known 1928 novel. At Cannes this low-budget independent first film won a special prize—Best Human Document. It is still that.
• Written by Ray, based on the novel by Bibhutibhushana Bandyopadhyaya. Photographed by Subrata Mitra. With Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Subir Banerjee, Uma Das Gupta. (122 mins, In Bengali with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, Restored by the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project through a collaboration of the Academy Film Archive, the Merchant-Ivory Foundation, and the Film Foundation, From Academy Film Archive, permission Janus
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