Apu’s story drifts through loss, silence, and fleeting moments of love that shape a deeply human journey. In the end, it ...
What summer superhero movies need is a boy named Apu. A landmark of world cinema, Satyajit Ray’s “The Apu Trilogy” — comprising “Pather Panchali” (1955), “Aparajito” (1956) and “Apur Sansar” (1959) — ...
Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy—“Pather Panchali” (1955), “Aparajito” (1956), and “The World of Apu” (1959), a new restoration of which is coming to Film Forum this Friday for a three-week run—is a great ...
It's still only June, but it already feels safe to say that 2015 will mark another summer of disappointing, overhyped Hollywood fare (with a few notable exceptions). If you're tired of hyperactive ...
Best extra: “The Apu Trilogy: A Closer Look” documentary, with filmmaker and teacher Mamoun Hassan THE GREAT Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray began his career with the first of what became the ...
For the latest Criterion releases, the company has restored Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy and released producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory’s A Room with a View. Not a bad collection of ...
Movie directors love trilogies. There have been dozens throughout film history, of both art-house and popcorn genre films. There’s Richard Linklater’s “Before” trilogy, Jean Cocteau’s Orphic trilogy, ...
To see Satyajit Ray's iconic Apu trilogy is to experience the true meaning of the word "epic." The works, all of which are gems of world cinema and demand to be seen, are together a luminous, ...
As studio tent-pole movies trample multiplexes this summer, cinema’s wondrous human-sized trilogy returns: the gorgeous, 4K (high-resolution) restoration of legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s ...
It isn’t right and it isn’t fair, but as Satyajit Ray’s humble, profound series about the life and times of a sensitive Bengali boy repeatedly shows, that’s the way it goes sometimes. These movies are ...