: Scorsese to Nolan: What 6 Legendary Filmmakers Said About The Inimitable Satyajit Ray #IndiaNEWS #Films Satyajit Ray’s cinema weaved together lyricism and realism like very few could. While many

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Scorsese to Nolan: What 6 Legendary Filmmakers Said About The Inimitable Satyajit Ray #IndiaNEWS #Films
Satyajit Ray’s cinema weaved together lyricism and realism like very few could. While many of his films are marked by stark realism, he never failed to capture the finer nuances of the human condition with incredible simplicity, beauty and excitement. (Image above of Akira Kurosawa and Satyajit Ray courtesy Facebook/Mubi) 
He captured complicated experiences of people coming of age, daring to defy social expectations and thus moving their lives in a new direction with exquisite mastery. Nothing encapsulates this essence of Ray’s cinema better than The Apu Trilogy, a series of three films.
“While his long takes, deep focus and minimal camera movements feel worlds away from the mile-a-minute editing of modern Hollywood blockbusters, these allow Ray’s characters space and time to strike us as fully rounded human beings, not social representations or symbols. Even characters who should be condemned for their actions are allowed to engage us as people, and in Ray’s cinema, we catch an intimate glimpse of the many different kinds of lives lived in both colonial and modern India,� writes Sarah Jilani, a London-based film critic, for BFI.
In some ways, one could argue that this is the purest form of storytelling with characters who are not caught up in stereotypes or erased by a certain ideological mooring.
As Netflix prepares to launch ‘Ray’, a four-part series based on short stories written by Satyajit Ray adapted for the screen, on 25 June, it’s imperative to remind audiences who haven’t had the pleasure of watching his films about his standing in the history of world cinema.
In this listicle, we take you through what some of the most celebrated filmmakers have said about his body of work.
(Image courtesy Facebook/The Criterion Collection)
Akira Kurosawa, Film Director
The legendary Japanese filmmaker, who directed classics like Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), Yojimbo (1961) and Ran (1985) and influenced countless filmmakers all over the world, once spoke about the deep-rooted humanism that existed in Ray’s films.
“The quiet but deep observation, understanding and love of the human race, which are characteristic of all his [Ray’s] films, have impressed me greatlyNot to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon. �
He described watching Ray’s most popular film, ‘Pather Panchali’ (1955), as “the kind of cinema that flows with the serenity and nobility of a big river,� in a conversation with British author Andrew Robinson for his his book ‘Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye’, released in 1989.
“People are born, live out their lives, and then accept their deaths.

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