The Big City
Set in mid-1950s Calcutta and directed by Satyajit Ray, this story follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati, who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family. With remarkable sensitivity and attention to the details of eve...
| Corporate Author: | Janus Films., RDB Organization (Firm), Criterion Collection (Firm) |
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| Other Authors: | Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992 (Screenwriter, composer (expression),), Chatterjee, Anil, 1928- (Actor), Mukherjee, Madhabi, 1943- (Actor), Banerjee, Haradhan (Actor), Chatterjee, Haren (Actor), Redwood, Vicky (Actor), Bhaduri, Jaya (Actor), Devi, Sefalika (Actor), Sarkar, Prasenjit (Actor), Mitra, Subrata, 1930-2001 (director of photography.), Caṭṭopādhyāẏa, Saumitra, 1935- (Actor), Ganguly, Suranjan, 1958- (interviewee (expression)), Mitra, Narendranātha, 1916-1975., Mitra, Premendra., Sengoopta, Chandak (author of added text.), Robinson, Andrew, 1957- (interviewer (expression)) |
| Format: | Videos DVD |
| Language: | Bengali English |
| Published: |
[Irvington, NY] :
Criterion Collection,
[2013]
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| Series: |
Criterion collection ;
668. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
Set in mid-1950s Calcutta and directed by Satyajit Ray, this story follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati, who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family. With remarkable sensitivity and attention to the details of everyday working-class life, Ray gradually builds a powerful human drama that is at once a hopeful morality tale and a commentary on the identity of the contemporary Indian woman. The Coward: An aspiring screenwriter encounters a former lover when his car breaks down near her home. |
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| Item Description: |
DVD release of the 1963 motion picture. From a story by Narendranath Mitra. Special features: Disc 1: Madhabi Mukherjee (new interview with the actor); Satyajit Ray and the modern woman (interview with Satyajit Ray scholar and author Suranjan Ganguly); B.D. Garga's Satyajit Ray (1974 documentary featuring narration by Satyajit Ray and on-set footage from the making of The big city). Disc 2: The coward (1965) (a feature film by Ray; starring Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee; based on a story by Premendra Mitra); About The coward. Booklet features an essay by scholar Chandak Sengoopta and an interview with Ray by his biographer Andrew Robinson. |
| Physical Description: |
2 videodiscs (135 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.) |
| Format: |
DVD ; NTSC ; region 1 ; fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono. |
| Audience: |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| Production Credits: |
Cinematography, Subrata Mitra ; production design by Bansi Chandragupta ; edited by Dulal Dutta. |
| ISBN: |
9781604657654 1604657650 |