This 4K release presents Satyajit Ray’s early masterpieces in their full beauty.
Often lost in the shuffle of his early masterpieces, Satyajit Ray’s remarkable Devi gets a sparkling new transfer from Criterion.
The film is a morally complex examination of the sometimes vast gulf between life and art.
Criterion rallies to put out one of its all-time best packages in its masterful restoration of Ray’s most famous films.
Satyajit Ray’s final films ably maintained his predominant thematic concerns and commitment to humanistic storytelling.
Ray’s ravishing modern fable of (male-centric) tradition in peril receives a typically beautiful Blu-ray from Criterion.
Ray’s masterpiece receives an essential high-definition transfer from Criterion, preserving one of the great works of cinema for new generations.
The feudal world is a crippling minefield of delusion and pride in Ray’s film.
Kites plays like a Douglas Sirk melodrama interpreted by Sergio Leone and with a score by Enya.
The mannered goofiness of The Chess Players echoes the pastoral comedy of Days and Nights In the Forest.
The film has the lightness of touch and narrative fluidity that’s pure, inimitable Ray.
Like any great work of art, it reveals more to the spectator each time it’s experienced.