In 1958, director Satyajit Ray attended the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, on the occasion of the U.S. release of PATHER PANCHALI. Ray had by then completed APARAJITO and THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE, and THE MUSIC ROOM would soon premiere. Presented here are audio excerpts of a conversation Ray had with film critic Gideon Bachmann during the seminar.
The following video essay, written and narrated by Satyajit Ray biographer Andrew Robinson and produced by the Criterion Collection in 2015, looks at the evolution and production of THE APU TRILOGY.
In 1967, Canadian documentarian James Beveridge traveled to Kolkata to film director Satyajit Ray at work. The resulting program, produced for the American public television series “The Creative Person,” features interviews with Ray, several of his actors and crew members, and film critic Chidana...
