The Criterion Collection
The Apu Trilogy
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Directed by: Satyajit Ray
Featuring: Soumitra Chatterjee, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakraborty, Subir Banerjee, Smaran Ghosal, Swapan Mukherjee, Pinaki Sengupta, Uma Das Gupta, Ramani Sengupta, Charuprakash Ghosh
Year: 1955 | 1956 | 1959
Time: 125 | 110 | 106 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 782
Release Date: November 17 2015
MSRP:
$99.95
Blu-ray
3 Discs | BD-50
1.37:1 ratio
Bengali 1.0 PCM Mono
Subtitles: English
Regions A
Audio recording from 1958 of director Satyajit Ray reading his essay “A Long Time on the Little Road”
New interviews with actors Soumitra Chatterjee and Shampa Srivastava and camera assistant Soumendu Roy
Excerpts from the 2003 documentary The Song of the Little Road, featuring The Apu Trilogy composer Ravi Shankar
The Small Details, a new interview with film writer Ujjal Chakraborty
Audio recording from 1958 of a conversation between director Satyajit Ray and film historian Gideon Bachmann
Making “The Apu Trilogy”: Satyajit Ray’s Epic Debut, a new video essay by Ray biographer Andrew Robinson
The Creative Person: “Satyajit Ray,” a 1967 half-hour documentary by James Beveridge, featuring interviews with Satyajit Ray, several of his actors, members of his creative team, and film critic Chidananda Das Gupta
New interview program with actors Soumitra Chatterjee and Sharmila Tagore
“The Apu Trilogy”: A Closer Look, a new program featuring filmmaker, producer, and teacher Mamoun Hassan
Footage of director Satyajit Ray receiving an honorary Oscar in 1992
New programs on the restoration of The Apu Trilogy by filmmaker :: kogonada
A booklet featuring essays by critics Terrence Rafferty and Girish Shambu, as well as a selection of Satyajit Ray’s storyboards for Pather Panchali