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The Academy Museum continues its centennial celebration of writer, director, and composer Satyajit Ray (1921–1992). December’s screenings focus on Ray’s prolific and prodigious 1960s output. The decade finds the director experimenting on several fronts: creating shorter but no less consummate works—the omnibus Teen Kanya and the dark/light double bill Kapurush and Mahapurush —and filming in color for the first time, as we see in the modernist Kanchenjungha . Ray also confronts religion ( Devi, Mahapurush ), centers women’s perspectives ( Mahanagar, Charulata ), takes dark detours ( Abhijan, Monihara ), and creates a magical, musical adventure ( Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne ). All films will screen on preserved 35mm prints from the Academy Film Archive, except where noted. Part 2 of this series will take place in 2022.
Programmed by Bernardo Rondeau Notes by Bernardo Rondeau and Robert Reneau
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