Author: Satyajit Ray
Publisher: Orient Longman/Disha
Year: 1993
Language: English
Pages: 220
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0863113176
Description
This book brings together Ray's major writings and talks on film making and film makers, and presents them in two sections. 'Our films' is devoted to his ownexperiences and observations on trends in Indian films. 'Their films' deals with foreign films that have become landmarks in the history of cinema. The book offersglimpses of great directors like Renoir, John Ford, Kurosawa and Charlie Chaplin.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
What is wrong with Indian Films?
Extracts from a Banaras Diary
A Long Time on the little Road
Problems of a Bengal Film Maker
Winding Route to a Music Room
Film Making
The Odds against Us
Some Aspects of My Craft
Those Songs
Meeting with a Maharaja
An Indian new wave?
Four and a Quarter
Renoir in Calcutta
Some Italian Films I have seen
Hollywood then and now
Thoughts on the British Cinema
Calm without, Fire within
Moscow Musings
The gold rush
Little Man, Big Book
Akira Kurosawa
Tokyo, Kyoto and Kurosawa
New wave and Old Master
Silent Films
A Tribute to John Ford
Index