A welcome side effect of the Indian subcontinent’s recently raised profile, Satyajit Ray’s films are back in New York City, where his 1955 Pather Panchali world-premiered at MOMA and began the screen ...

Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy—“Pather Panchali” (1955), “Aparajito” (1956), and “The World of Apu” (1959), a new restoration of which is coming to Film Forum this Friday for a three-week run—is a great ...

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The three films known collectively as “The Apu Trilogy” — “Pather Panchali,” “Aparajito” and “The World of Apu” — are, if you want to be a purist, best taken in a single long swallow. Opening this ...

It happens rarely, but when it does, we’re all intrigued about how they did it. Some artists raise the standard of what a work of art can be: Leo Tolstoy did this for the novel, notably in War and ...

Maybe that’s why the experience of watching Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy — movies adapted from two works by Indian novelist Bibhutibhushan Banerjee and set in a country many of us will never even visit ...

Young Apu (Pinaki Sengupta) ponders a life of hardship in "Aparajito," the middle film in Satyajit Ray's classic Apu Trilogy. (Janus Films) "PATHER PANCHALI (SONG OF THE LITTLE ROAD)" 7:00 p.m.

The films that Martin Scorsese once called “one of the great cinematic experiences of my life,” from a director Akira Kurosawa said, “never having seen [his films] is like never having seen the sun or ...

Janus Films has restored and is releasing 4K versions of Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s “Apu” trilogy with new subtitles. “Pather Panchali,” “Aparajito” and “Apur Sansar” will play in limited release ...

When graphic designer Satyajit Ray began shooting his first feature, a story of life in his native India at a village called Pather Panchali, his only filmmaking experience had been as a location ...