Satyajit Ray was one of the most influential filmmakers that ever lived. He was an artist that worked internationally, in countries that were undergoing a quickly shifting identity from colonial rule to independence. He didn’t make the same kind of film more than once. Instead creating films of many genres like dramas, musicals, comedies, satirical and psychological thrillers; as well as Shakespearian stories, family films, and political allegories that captivated audiences.
He died in 1992, but many contemporary filmmakers find inspiration in his films including Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg.
Image from satyajitray.ucsc.edu
TIFF Bell Lightbox has kicked off the most comprehensive retrospective of Ray's work. The Sun and the Moon: The Films of Satyajit Ray is running now until August 17th. It is a series of over 20 programs featuring the filmmaker’s work; including some wonderful and rare pictures that one may not be able to view again for decades. This comprehensive TIFF Cinematheque retrospective presents 34 titles, including:
Ray’s monumental trilogies
The Apu Trilogy, made of Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1957) and The World of Apu (1959), establishing a lyrical visual and narrative style with which Ray became identified.
The Calcutta Trilogy is comprised of the skeptical, satirical, and politically engaged films: The Adversary (1970), Company Limited (1971) and The Middleman (1975)
The Final Trilogy: An Enemy of the People (1989), Branches of the Tree (1990) and The Stranger (1991).
Other films include
· The superb chamber drama Days and Nights in the Forest (1969)
· Devi (1960), a story about the conflict of old and new India as it is waged over the body and soul of a shy young bride.
· Charulata (1964), a moving examination of women's status in the colonial world of Victorian-era Bengal
· The Music Room (1958), one of Ray's most magnificently visual films.
Along with the retrospective is Passages to India: India Seen by Outsiders, which is a proactive sidebar series running from July 5th to July 27th. This series surveys the work of eight European and American filmmakers whose outsider's visions of India range from meditative documentary to delirious Orientalist artifice. Satyajit Ray Roundtables and Talks is an illuminating series of onstage events exploring Ray's contribution to cinema as well as the restoration of his works by the Academy Film Archive, and Western artists' engagement with India as part of the Passages to India series.
For all the films and the screening times, visit TIFF.net
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