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Scorsese introducing Satyajit Ray

Posted by: nirmalamagazine on: August 25, 2009

What you can learn from this brief presentation:

As Martin Scorsese says: no director have really depicted the making of the history in a movie before.

Scorsese’s encountering with the poetic cinema of Ray.

The importance of uderstanding the life in the villages and in the places we walk by routine.

The three times awarded movie The chess players (1977) by [...]

Documentary on Rabindra Nath Tagore (last 2 parts)

Posted by: nirmalamagazine on: April 16, 2008

The difficult time of India under the Bristish empire. His humanist ideas and messages.

He understood the children so well. The last years and the message on civilazation:

see the part 1,2,3 here

Documentary on Rabindra Nath Tagore by Satyajit Ray (part 1,2,3)

Posted by: nirmalamagazine on: April 15, 2008

Rabindra Nath Tagore was a lovely child who disliked the school methods of his time:

He grew in an artstical frame where music, poetry and dance were considered of spiritual importance. He wrote “The Awakening of the Waterfalls” after his experience of self-realization:

His vision of a free based [...]

The genius of Ray: dedication of a concert in Santa Cruz

Posted by: nirmalamagazine on: April 14, 2008

Satyajit Ray received many labels in his lifetime — most of them admiring, adulatory, some critical. Critics and scholars have marveled at his craftsmanship, mastery of detail and storytelling techniques. He has been called the last Bengali renaissance man, the inheritor and an exemplar of the Tagore tradition, a classic chronicler of changes being wrought [...]


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