Films/DVD Asylum

Pather Panchali

76.99.185.128

Victor Khomenko

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First - let me borrow the description from Netflix:
"In the first film in director Satyajit Ray's acclaimed trilogy, A boy named Apu is born to a poor but proud Brahmin family. When father Harihar (Kanu Bannerjee) loses his treasury job, he sets out to find work elsewhere, leaving his family with depleted resources. In his absence, their condition deteriorates. Months later, Harihar returns to face the tragedy that forces the family to leave their ancestral home."
An extremely engaging 1958 B&W film, available as Blu-ray from Netflix.

Edits: 04/19/19

Follow Ups:

RE: Pather Panchali - goldenthal 18:27:51 04/27/19 (2)
Victor:

Along with the 2 big Renoires, especially the first 2 of the Ray trilogy (but the whole trilogy if necessary for argument) are the greatest movies of my experience.

Jeremy
- Do you mean... - Victor Khomenko 07:06:10 04/29/19 (1)
  The Rules of the Game and La Grande Illusion?
  - RE: Do you mean... . . Those are They! (nt) - goldenthal 10:26:51 04/29/19 (0)
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It is a pity.... - Bill the K 17:24:48 04/27/19 (1)
that the many equal or better movies in various Indian languages like Hindi, Marati, Gujerati, Tamil, Malayalam et al cannot get the exposure that a few Bengali movies got. Sathyajit Ray was very fortunate.

Bill

PS
Some Hindi commercial movies got more than their share in Soviet Union in the 50s. Raj Kapoor and family are an all time favorite there in Russia even now, I hear.
- I doubt... - Victor Khomenko 06:58:59 04/29/19 (0)
  ...many Russians will recognize the Kapoor name... their movie culture is non-existent, about the best they can do is watching Russian crime series and plus some voice-over Western ones. A visit to their "Movies" forum can be painful experience in hopelessness.
  
  This is very different from the vibrant culture that existed some 50 years ago. It is all gone now.
RE: Pather Panchali - manerac 09:50:54 04/19/19 (2)
I especially liked the performance of the elderly aunt (Chunibala Devi per IMDB). I still haven't seen the other two films in the "Apu Trilogy".
- Aparajito is available from Netflix - Victor Khomenko 12:42:38 04/19/19 (0)
  I put it in the queue, but the third one, The World of Apu not yet.
  
  However, since the Criterion Channel is now working, it might be there.
  
  Yes... sad, but beautiful.
- its really worth seeing all three, sad but very good - PhilJ 11:42:02 04/19/19 (0)
  and beautiful cinematography.

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