Word: panchali
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vita), Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura) and Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers); England's Tony Richardson (Look Back in Anger); Poland's Andrzej Wajda (Kanal) and Roman Polanski (Two Men and a Wardrobe); Argentina's Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (Summerskin); India's Satyajit Ray (Father Panchali...
Devi follows the triumphant "Apu" trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu) of India's young producerdirector, Satyajit Ray. If it does not quite measure up to the earlier triumphs, it is probably because the new film lacks the trilogy's earthy excitement. For instead of dealing with the struggles and ordeals of a poor-but-proud lower-class family, Devi moves through the silk and saffron world of a rich household in 19th century India...
...Brattle has any serious thoughts of remaining a quality theatre, it will have to begin showing the best of first-run films and reviving movies that are old enough to deserve resuscitation. Its schedule this reading period underline the problem. The Apu trilogy goes on next week. Pather Panchali, the earliest of the three, appeared here within the last two years and The World of Apu was released only last spring. As if this were not enough effrontery, the Brattle management has also planned to exhibit John Cassavetes' Shadows, which is a truly fine film, certainly, but the Telepix...
...WORLD OF APU. In this concluding section of a trilogy (Part One: Father Panchali; Part Two: Aparajito) by Satyajit Ray, contemporary India is born in suffering, and the film itself emerges as a modern Mahabharata, one of the most generously vital movies ever made...
...World of Apu. The third, last and most striking section in the trilogy of Indian life by Satyajit Ray brings its hero to marriage and deeper tragedy than either Pather Panchali or Aparajito, the first two parts, making it the moving culmination of a naturalistic film masterpiece...