Akira kurosawa on satyajit ray filmography
Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker who created 30 films of his own as well as occasionally directing and writing for others in a career spanning seven decades....
Here's what cinema luminary Akira Kurosawa had to say about Satyajit Ray in The quiet but deep observation, understanding and love of the human race.
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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.
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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 condemne