Something to watch tonight: Tuesday 1 October

Pather Panchali (Ray, 1955)

Oct 01, 2024

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Subir Bannerjee as Apu in Satyajit Ray’s masterpiece, Pather Panchali (1955)

Working my way down the Sight & Sound list of the best 50 films ever made, I get to number 35 and a film I wrote about for RNZ the first time I tried this quest, back in 2019.

Then, Ray’s debut masterpiece was #41 (equal with Rosselini’s Journey to Italy) but over the years of the survey it has been as high as #6 and as low as #79.

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