=================================================== April 15 - 30, 2009 SALAAM
Theatre
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/satyajit/program.html The Film Society of Lincoln Center celebrates Satyajit Ray's profound and lasting impact on world cinema with First Light: Satyajit Ray from the Apu Trilogy to the Calcutta Trilogy, Wednesday, April 15 through Thursday April 30 at the Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center. Discount offer for SALAAM Supporters. Choose the First Light Promotion ticket option when ordering online and get tickets for $9 each. When purchasing at the box office, bring a print out of this SALAAM e-mail or mention the First Light Promotion to the cashier. Discounted rate is good for up to two tickets per screening per person. Other discounts include $8 seniors (62+), $7 for students with ID, Film Society members and children (6-12 accompanied by an adult). WALTER
READE THEATER
"To have not seen the films of Ray is to have lived in the world without ever having seen the moon and the sun."-Akira Kurosawa Little excuse is ever needed to re-examine the work of one of cinema's greatest auteurs, but the recent spike of interest in India-from its propitious emergence as a major economic power to the worldwide success of Slumdog Millionaire - make this an especially apt moment to witness and celebrate the achievements of Satyajit Ray. Born into a Bengali family in 1921, Ray was working in advertising when he met Jean Renoir, in India scouting locations for The River. Upon hearing a description of the story that would become Pather Panchali, Renoir encouraged the young cinephile to try his hand at filmmaking, but it was not until Ray saw Bicycle Thieves in London in 1950 that he resolved to become a director. Using his personal savings and scant government loans, Ray completed Pather Panchali in just under three years-and the rest is cinematic history. Born under the cinematic sign of the realist movement, Ray excelled through meticulous renderings of his settings (immeasurably aided by art director Bansi Chandragupta) and vivid, uncompromising portrayals of the rhythms of life as his characters would have lived them. A Ray film invites you in, but also demands that you accept it on its own terms, and those who open themselves to Ray's method are in for some of the richest experiences the cinema has to offer. This series focuses on what was roughly the first half of Ray's film career, in which the tensions between East and West, old and new, and even city and country are especially prevalent. This series is also 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's films. We hope to be able to present a series built around the second half of Satyajit Ray's career in the not-so-distant future. This series is presented by The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Columbia University in collaboration with the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center at the University of California-Santa Cruz and the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles. In conjunction with this series, a major conference on Satyajit Ray will be held at Columbia University on Saturday, April 25. The conference will include a keynote lecture from Robert Young (Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University) and talks by Samik Banerjee (theater, film, and arts critic; Vice Chairman, National School of Drama, India), Shyam Benegal (filmmaker), Mihir Bhattacha Rya, Moinak Biswas (Film Studies Professor, Jadavpur University; Editor, Journal of the Moving Image), Marcia Landy (Distinguished Professor of English and Film Studies, Secondary Appointment in the French and Italian Department, University of Pittsburgh), Mira Nair (filmmaker; President, Mirabai Films), Ashish Rajyadhyaksha (Centre for the Study of Culture & Society, Bangalore) and Sandip Ray, film director and the son of Satyajit Ray. For more information, call (212) 851-0231. http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/satyajit.html Admission:
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