Ebook: Satyajit Ray on Cinema

The film-maker's craft. National styles in cinema -- Notes on filming Bibhuti Bhusan -- Should a film-maker be original? -- This word 'technique' -- All these devices -- The changing face of films -- The question of reality -- The confronting question -- A film must achieve its objective -- Thoughts on the camera -- 'I wish I could have shown them to you' -- The new cinema and I -- Under western eyes -- The art of silence -- Pen portraits. A word about Godard -- The new Antonioni -- The nayak -- 'Never use animals' -- The immortal tramp -- Celebrating cinema. Arrival in Moscow -- Film festivals -- Our festivals, their festivals.