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Acknowledgments

We are thankful to Mr. Denis Darzacq for giving us permission to use some of his pictures, taken during the shooting of Ganashatru (Enemy of the People, 1989).

We are also thankful to Lake View Press to provide permission to reproduce a long interview with Satyajit Ray (Copyright 1982 by Dan Georgakas. Reprinted by permission from The Cineaste Interviews: On the Art and Politics of the Cinema. Georgakas, Dan and Lenny Rubenstein, eds. Chicago: Lake View Press, 1982. (Lake View Press; Cineaste magazine http://www.cineaste.com)

SatyajitRay.org is not affiliated in with any Satyajit Ray Trust or the Ray family. This site is meant to stimulate academic discussion and appreciation of Satyajit Ray and his films. It is produced on our own time, at our own expense. Compilation, original prose, design, and layout of the site is copyright of SatyajitRay.org.

Images and information for this site have been gathered from various sources. Placing copyrighted material online is a delicate matter. We have not obtained permission to use all such material, but where ever possible, we have provided source and copyright information. 

Nemai Ghosh chronicled most of Ray’s cinema career in beautiful black and white images and we have use many of his images in this website. If you want purchase prints or need permission to reproduce his image you can see a catalog here.

This site contains only brief excerpts. It is not our intention to offer extensive reproduction of any material that is commercially available. Further, we believe that this site can assist in the promotion of commercially available resources by calling attention to them. All such copyrighted material is property of their respective copyright holders. All rights are reserved by their individual trademark/copyright holders.

If any copyrighted images or information appearing on this site that have not been credited, please inform us. We will be happy to credit the relevant copyright owners. Any content will be removed at the request of its copyright holder.

The information contained in this website is based upon the viewing of films by Satyajit Ray; I have seen 29 of the thirty-six feature and short films Ray made. In addition, I have relied on the following books for much of the factual information. The links on the right point to the online bookstore amazon.com where you can purchase these books.

Ray, Satyajit. Our films, their films. 1st U.S. ed. New York, Hyperion Books, 1994 / Bombay, Orient Longman, 1976. ISBN 0861256379 / 0863113176 / 0861251768 / 0786861223
A collection of articles written by Ray. Discusses Indian, European, Asian, Russian and Hollywood cinema; aspects of his craft; his encounters with Renoir and Kurosawa; New wave and old masters & Silent films.
Paperback
Hardcover
US Edition

Ray, Satyajit / Shampa Banerjee. The Apu trilogy. Calcutta, Seagull Books, 1985. ISBN 0571125549 / 0804466793.
Three screenplays of the “Apu Trilogy” films.

Paperback
Hardcover

Ray, Satyajit. My years with Apu. New Delhi / New York. Viking, 1994. ISBN 0670862150.
Ray shares his excitement and worries while making the “Apu Trilogy”; The book is as much about “making of a filmmaker: Satyajit Ray” as the films of the trilogy.

Hardcover

Robinson, Andrew. Satyajit Ray : The Inner Eye. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1989 / Calcutta, Rupa & Co., 1990. ISBN: 0520069056.
Individual films in detail , bio, career chronology, development as a filmmaker, Ray style & Craft. Comprehensive and in depth.

Hardcover

Seton, Marie. Portrait of a director: Satyajit Ray, London, Dennis Dobson, 1971. ISBN 0253168155 / 0234772344.
Individual films in detail , bio, career chronology, development as a filmmaker, Ray style & Craft. Comprehensive and in depth.

Hardcover
Paperback
The Cineaste InterviewsOn the Art and Politics of the Cinema. Georgakas, Dan and Lenny Rubenstein, eds. Chicago: Lake View Press, 1982. ISBN 0941702030.
A collection of 35 in-depth interviews with the world’s leading filmmakers and critics.
 

Film reviews by Pauline Kael:

5001 Nights at the Movies : Expanded for the 90s With 800 New Reviews
ISBN 0805013679, 1991

I Lost It at the Movies : Film Writings 1954-1965
ISBN 0714529753, 1994

When the Lights Go Down, ISBN 0030568420.

 

Film reviews by Leonard Maltin:

Leonard Maltin’s Movie & Video Guide,
ISBN 0451195825

Satyajit Ray ©Denis Darzacq
Satyajit Ray ©Denis Darzacq