The Film Society of Lincoln Center<\/b> will celebrate India\u2019s greatest filmmaker and one of cinema\u2019s greatest auteurs, Satyajit Ray, with First Light: Satyajit Ray from the Apu Trilogy to the Calcutta Trilogy, unspooling at the Walter Reade Theater from Wednesday, April 15 through Thursday April 30, (16 Days)<\/b>. Featuring over 20 films, with six in new 35mm prints from the Academy Film Archive<\/b>, the series concentrates on what is roughly the first half of Ray\u2019s career, when he broke out internationally as an important new voice in world cinema.<\/p>\n
\u201cA Ray film invites you in, but also demands that you accept it on its own terms,\u201d says Richard Pe\u00f1a, The Film Society\u2019s Director of Programming<\/b>. \u201cAnd those who open themselves to Ray\u2019s method are in for some of the richest experiences the cinema has to offer.\u201d The recent spike of interest in India\u2014from its propitious emergence as a major economic power to the worldwide success of Slumdog Millionaire<\/b>\u2014makes this an especially apt moment to witness and celebrate the accomplishments of Satyajit Ray, who won the Honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement at the 1991 Academy Awards<\/b>, \u201cfor his rare mastery of the art of motion pictures and for his profound humanitarian outlook, which has had an indelible influence on filmmakers and audiences throughout the world.\u201d For more information and tickets visit www.filmlinc.com<\/a> The Film Society of Lincoln Center will celebrate India\u2019s greatest filmmaker and one of 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\nSatyajit Ray (1921-1992)<\/b>, was born into a family of distinguished printers, writers and artists in Calcutta. At the age of 18, upon his mother\u2019s prodding, he started studies at Rabindranath Tagore\u2019s Vishva-Bharati University<\/b> in order to become a commercial artist. Ray left the university before graduating and joined an advertising agency, where he would work for 13 years. An avid film fan since school years, he co-founded Calcutta\u2019s first film society in 1947. Around the same time, Ray started writing film criticism, which appeared in both English and Bengali publications. In 1949, Ray met Jean Renoir, while the French director was scouting locations in India for The River. Renoir encouraged Ray\u2019s passion for cinema; however, an appointment to the London office of the ad agency prevented him from working on Renoir\u2019s film. While in London, Ray saw De Sica\u2019s The Bicycle Thief, which solidified his ideas about making a realistic Indian film, shot in existing locations with a non-professional cast. This resulted in Pather Panchali<\/b>, a project that was on Ray\u2019s mind before he met Renoir. Filmed over the course of three years, it premiered at MoMA in 1955 and was released in India a few months later to become a great box-office success. Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India at the time, was so touched by the film that he arranged for its inclusion into Cannes, where it won a special prize. Worldwide recognition soon followed, allowing Ray complete authority over his subsequent films. A prolific director, he made a feature every year from 1956 to 1981. In addition, Ray developed a notable literary career, writing short stories, articles and novels as well as reviving a children\u2019s magazine, Sandesh, started by his grandfather. On March 30, 1992, Satyajit Ray<\/b> was awarded the Honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement. Due to ill health, he could not attend the ceremony and his acceptance speech was pre-recorded in Calcutta. He died on April 23 that year.
\nThis series is a tribute to the work of the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles, which together with the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center at the University of California-Santa Cruz has done so much to preserve and promote the work of this major film artist for future generations. The archive is currently hard at work restoring the rest of Ray\u2019s films. We hope to be able to present a series built around the second half of Satyajit Ray\u2019s career in the not-so-distant future.
\nIn conjunction with this series, a major conference on Satyajit Ray will be held at Columbia University<\/b> on Saturday, April 25. For more information <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"