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TONY MALLERMAN

Satyajit Ray can reveal reality as can no other director in the world. He can give us the squelch of mud so that our feet are sucked into it; and the sound of birds frantically chattering so that we might reach out and touch a wing in flight; and the nearness of a great sluggish river so that we, too, are governed by it. One feels it possible to touch a Ray film, to make real tactile contact with objects and people which, in other films, we might admire for the patterns they made or the attitudes they struck.

One might see a thousand well-intentioned documentaries about India, yet learn less from them than from either of the two stories in Two Daughters. And besides his benevolently accurate eye, Satyajit Ray has a heart he has not controlled in the interests of sophistication. Director, producer, writer, composer—Ray has credits for all these in Two Daughters. But at the risk of seeming arch I'd say it is for something...

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1. Introduction
2. Guido Aristarco
3. DOUGLAS McVAY
4. Jonathan Harker
5. Arlene Croce
6. Cynthia Grenier
7. John Burgess
8. John Gillett
9. Eric Rhode
10. Gordon Gow
11. Tony Mallerman
12. Eric Rhode
13. Peter Cowie
14. Penelope Houston
15. Richard Schickel
16. Richard Schickel
17. Chidananda Das Gupta
18. Ernest Callenbach
19. Elizabeth Sussex
20. William S. Pechter
21. Tom Milne
22. Robin Wood
23. Pauline Kael
24. Stanley Kauffmann
25. Alan Ross
26. Tom Milne
27. John Coleman
28. Penelope Gilliatt
29. Penelope Gilliatt
30. Judith Crist
31. Tom Milne
32. Pauline Kael
33. John Simon
34. John Russell Taylor
35. Chris Schemering
36. William S. Pechter
37. Geoff Brown
38. Tom Milne
39. J. Hoberman
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