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Pather Panchali

audiovisual digital film film core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Satyajit Ray, director

Canon Rationale

A core Indian and global art-cinema film, included as a bounded watchable work for Ray's realism, rural Bengal, childhood, music/image form, and the Apu Trilogy context.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 56.

Evidence

  • institutional list: BFI, 'Pather Panchali'.
  • review essay: The Criterion Collection, 'Pather Panchali'.

Audit Flags

version dependency

Completion unit: watch the film in a specified restored or standard edition.

Reading Lists