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...happened to be a masterpiece. Pather Panchali is perhaps the finest piece of filmed folklore since Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North. It is a pastoral poem dappled with the play of brilliant images and strong, dark feelings, a luminous revelation of Indian life in language that all the world can understand. In the three years since Pather Panchali was released, it has won five grand prizes at film festivals from Cannes to San Francisco. And everywhere discriminating moviegoers have plied the turnstiles in modest but impressive numbers-everywhere, that is, except in the U.S., where the film...