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The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne)

September 9, 2014

BBBB (out of 5) A terrific storybook adventure bursting with comedy and music, aided by gorgeous direction from a lighthearted Satyajit Ray and a beautiful visual landscape. Sweet and simple Goopy is booted from his village for annoying everyone with his tuneless singing, wandering into the wilderness and meeting an equally shunned drummer who calls … More The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne)

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The Philosopher’s Stone (Parash Pathar)

September 2, 2014

BBBB (out of 5) Lighthearted caprice from Satyajit Ray, about a low-level bank clerk who stumbles upon a magical stone that turns any metal it touches into gold. Before long he is a local fatcat with an enormous fortune, but all is not as it appears; his bills are also piling up and his wife … More The Philosopher’s Stone (Parash Pathar)

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The Golden Fortress (Sonar Kella)

September 1, 2014

BBBB (out of 5) Wonderful cross-country adventure that begins when a married couple realize that the drawings their little boy is making are referencing a past life. The boy’s ability to remember living in a “Golden Fortress” full of treasures draws the attention of a doctor of parapsychology who wants to investigate the case, but … More The Golden Fortress (Sonar Kella)

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The Music Room (Jalsaghar)

July 13, 2014

BBBB (out of 5) An overextended aristocrat tries to hold on to the old ways by taking on whatever debt necessary to keep up his lavish palace, its central focus a gorgeous music room where he hosts parties including the maturation celebration of his young son. Years later, aged and broken by tragedy, he hears … More The Music Room (Jalsaghar)

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Charulata (The Lonely Wife)

July 12, 2014

BBBB.5 (out of 5) Reuniting with Madhabi Mukherjee, the star of his masterful The Big City, Satyajit Ray details the story of a happily married, wealthy woman whose intellectual husband encourages her abilities as a writer. She lazily spends days playing cards but also enjoys devouring her household’s library of books, none of it really … More Charulata (The Lonely Wife)

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The Goddess (Devi) (1960)

June 22, 2014

BBBB (out of 5) One of Satyajit Ray’s more playful and capricious films, but still possessing the emotional resonance of his best work. A young woman lives with her husband’s family while her spouse studies abroad, her life changed completely on the night that her father-in-law wakes up from a dream and tells everyone that … More The Goddess (Devi) (1960)

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The Big City (Mahanagar)

May 23, 2014

BBBB.5 (out of 5) The pleasure of watching Satyajit Ray’s films about women coming into their own sense of determination is one that hits you deep in the soul. His perfectly calibrated sense of tender observation mixed with the light comedic realities of everyday living is showed off brilliantly in this film, about Arati, a … More The Big City (Mahanagar)

My Old Addiction

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The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne)

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The Philosopher’s Stone (Parash Pathar)

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The Golden Fortress (Sonar Kella)

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The Music Room (Jalsaghar)

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Charulata (The Lonely Wife)

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The Goddess (Devi) (1960)

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The Big City (Mahanagar)

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