memories of ray_#38_mrinal sen_‘ Pather Panchali is the first ‘total cinema’ film, you cannot think of Indian cinema without Satyajit Ray'_ in this very long take, Mrinal Sen talks fluidly without stopping about the Calcutta Film Society, his friendship with Ritwik Ghatak, the writing of his first reviews, the shooting of his first films, about his admiration of Ray’s first films, about the cold public reaction to ‘Aparajito’, about the train scene in Pather Panchali, about some scenes he likes and dislikes in Ray’s cinema, about Ray’s fabulous ’10 years’, from Pather Panchali to Charulata, about Ray’s last three films he really didn’t like and by-and-large, about ‘contemporaneity’….If you don’t have time or patience to watch the full shot, make sure you’ll watch from 34’02, where Mrinal Sen starts talking in a very profound and subtle way about his long relation with Ray, and about his respect and criticism of his oeuvre.( recorded in 1999 in Calcutta )
cet extrait est la branche#38 d’un grand arbre intitulé
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this short film is branch#38 of a big tree entitled ‘memories of ray’
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