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Long Shadows: The Late Work of Satyajit Ray The promised (and much-requested) follow-up to our 2009 Satyajit Ray tribute, Long Shadows: The Late Work of Satyajit Ray includes all the films made by Ray in the autumnal years of his career. Already an acknowledged giant of world cinema, Ray in these later works reveals a more meditative side: his brilliant powers of observation lead him to pare down his style, allowing his characters and the world to reveal themselves to us. Of special interest is Home and the World, his final, wonderful adaptation of a work by his mentor, Rabindranath Tagore (whose 150th anniversary we celebrate this year), as well as his final, luminous work, The Stranger, an extraordinary summing up of so much of Ray's worldview graced with a sensational lead performance by Utpal Dutt. Presented in collaboration with Columbia University. Tickets are on Sale Now! Special Three-Film Pass screening package: |
Films in this Series
An Enemy of the People
Satyajit Ray,
1990
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Fri Apr 22: 9:00 pm |
Sat Apr 23: 7:10 pm |
In Ray’s reworking of the Ibsen play, Soumitra Chatterjee plays a beleaguered doctor who insists that a temple’s holy water is causing epidemics.  Deliverance (Sadgati)Satyajit Ray, 1981
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Wed Apr 20: 1:30 pm |
Sun Apr 24: 1:15 pm |
In Ray’s stark, unflinching short, a weakened Untouchable laborer dies on the job, forcing the landowner to deal with the consequences.
SCREENING WITH: PIKOO's DIARY (1980, India; 26m) A boy’s day at home is filled with shattering and confusing revelations; and THE INNER EYE (1972, India; 19m) Ray’s exquisite portrait of painter Binode Bihari Mukherjee. 
Distant Thunder
Satyajit Ray,
1973
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Tue Apr 19: 6:15 pm |
Sat Apr 23: 5:00 pm |
Ray revisits the village setting of the Apu Trilogy for a jarring drama about villagers during the Bengali Famine of 1943. New York Film Festival ’73. 
Sikkim
Satyajit Ray,
1971
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Thu Apr 21: 9:00 pm |
Tue Apr 26: 4:15 pm |
Commissioned by the ruler of a Himalayan state, Ray made this controversial poetic sketch, which was swiftly subjected to censorship.
SCREENING WITH BALA (1976, India; 33m) Ray’s rarely screened record of the famed Bharata Natyam dancer.
The Branches of a Tree
Satyajit Ray,
1990
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Sun Apr 24: 3:20 pm |
Tue Apr 26: 6:10 pm |
When a family patriarch falls ill, his grown sons rush in from Calcutta, leading to a reunion filled with painful ironies and lingering disillusionment.
The Chess Players
Shot in lavish color, Ray’s ironic elegy to 19th-century India tacks between an effete aristocrat threatened by the British, and two Lucknowi landowners absorbed in gameplaying.
The Elephant God
Satyajit Ray,
1979
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Wed Apr 20: 8:50 pm |
Fri Apr 22: 4:00 pm |
Ray’s beloved Feluda teams up with his faithful sidekick and a mystery novelist to track down a stolen Ganesh figurine. Featuring knife-throwing and Benares in vivid color. 
The Golden Fortress
Satyajit Ray,
1974
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Tue Apr 19: 8:30 pm |
Wed Apr 20: 3:30 pm |
Two thieves kidnap a boy whose flashbacks to a past life may point the way to treasure. Master detective Feluda is on the case! 
The Home and the World
In Ray’s take on the 1905 Bengali partition protests, a bourgeois woman (Swatilekha Chatterjee) falls for a strident nationalist (Soumitra Chatterjee). Adapted from Rabindranath Tagore.
The Kingdom of Diamonds
Satyajit Ray,
1980
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Thu Apr 21: 1:30 pm |
Thu Apr 21: 6:30 pm |
Ray pulls out all the stops for the fantastical sci-fi return of delightful duo Goupy and Bagha, who must contend with a dictator’s brainwashing machine. 
The Stranger
In this disarming, thoughtful coda to Ray’s career, a forgotten uncle (Utpal Dutt) visits his family after decades of wandering, leading to debates over civility and civilization.
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