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Films : Their Films/Satyajit Ray. Reprint. New Delhi, Orient Longman, 2001,
viii, 219 p., $11. ISBN 81-250-1565-5.Our
Films : Their Films/Satyajit Ray. Reprint. New Delhi, Orient Longman, 2001,
viii, 219 p., $11. ISBN 81-250-1565-5.
Contents: Introduction. 1. What is wrong with Indian films? 2. Extracts from a Banaras diary. 3. A long time on the little road. 4. Problems of a Bengal film maker. 5. Winding route to a music room. 6. Film making. 7. The odds against us. 8. Some aspects of my craft. 9. Those songs. 10. Meetings with a Maharaja. 11. An Indian new wave? 12. Four and a quarter. 13. Renoir in Calcutta. 14. Some Italian films I have seen. 15. Hollywood then and now. 16. Thoughts on the British cinema. 17. Calm without, fire within. 18. Moscow musings. 19. The gold rush. 20. Little man, big book. 21. Akira Kurosawa. 22. Tokyo, Kyoto and Kurosawa. 23. New wave and old master, 24. Silent films. 25. A tribute to John Ford. Index.
"Cinema has never been saved by writers. We may have more of them now than ever before, but at the same time there are more and stronger shoulders now to shrug them off. No. Words are not enough. Words need the backing of action, or there is no revolution. And the only action that counts is that which a film maker calls into play by snapping out his words of command in his own particular field of battle. If his victory, and of many others like him, restore even a little of the dignity a great art form has lost, only then can we talk of having a revolution."