Satyajit Ray

Akira Kurosawa said of the great director: 'Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.' Martin Scorsese remarked on Ray's birth centenary in 2021: 'The films of Satyajit Ray are truly treasures of cinema and everyone with an interest in film needs to see them.'<br/><br/><i>Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye</i> is the definitive biography based on extensive interviews with Ray himself his actors and collaborators and a deep knowledge of Bengali culture. Andrew Robinson provides an in-depth critical account of each film in an astonishingly versatile career from Ray's directorial debut <i>Pather Panchali</i> (1955) to his final feature <i>Agantuk</i>(1991). The third (centenary) edition includes new material: an epilogue 'A century of Ray' about the nature of his genius; a wide-ranging conversation with Ray drawn from the author's interviews; and an updated comprehensive bibliography of Ray's writings.