Word: satyajit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Western viewers expecting the delicate art films of Satyajit Ray will be in for a pleasant shock. Most Indian films are closer to the populist energy and intimate audience connection of Hong Kong films. And like John Woo's and Jackie Chan's action thrillers, Indian cinema exotically evokes the complex pleasures of Golden Age Hollywood, with its glamour and verve, its strict codes (India's censors typically allow no explicit violence, nudity or even kissing) and the cunning, seductive way it subverts these taboos...
...fierce star performance by Seema Biswas. The film has an Indian heart but a Hollywood pulse; it moves with the fevered outrage of an Oliver Stone melodram--Natural Born Killers meets Heaven and Earth. Most Indian movies are either humid musical fables or languid art films in the Satyajit Ray mold. Bandit Queen is neither. It is an assaultive experience, blistering with ripe obscenities, the frontal nudity of its star and three stark scenes in which Phoolan is raped--enough to have the film banned 10 times over in a country where a bare shoulder can send the censors frothing...
Merchant-Ivory Productions is currently workingon restoring the film collection of Indianproducer Satyajit Ray. After running in New YorkCity for six months, the films will be played atHarvard for six months...
...with people. And that...propelled me into the next related thing, which was documentary filmmaking." Harvard's Visual and Environmental Studies Department offered her a rigorous technical training in film, and college life expanded her aesthetic palette, shaping her own colorful and confrontational visual style. She saw her first Satyajit Ray film at the Science Center...