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News and Events:
Latest Update— Thursday May 15, 2008
Special thanks to Sharmila Roy Pommot, Aashish Khan, Bodhi Das, and Soumy Chakravarti for a wonderful performance this past May 2, 2008. The event: "The Music of Satyajjit Ray, Impact of Tagore" went very well. Thank you to everyone who was able to attend the event. Check back for future events and updates.
Update— Thursday April 24, 2008
On Friday May 2, 2008 the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center at UCSC plans to mark the Fifteenth Anniversary of its establishment with a rare and unique music program: "The Music of Satyajit Ray, Impact of Tagore".
We plan to begin the program with Utpalendu Chakravarti's seldom seen documentary "Music of Satyajit Ray". This film shows Ray composing - writing the notations, playing them on the piano - rehearsing with the musicians, recording the pieces as well as shooting with the actors.
It will be followed by Sharmila Roy Pommot, a musicologist who teaches at the Sorbonne and is a leading exponent and expert on Tagore's and Ray's music, will begin by singing a song. She will then speak on how Ray composed his complex Indian and Western music adopting Tagore songs in several of his major films. The second part of the program Roy Pommot will sing the Tagore songs in Ray's films.
Roy Pommot will be accompanied by Aashish Khan on the Sarode, a string instrument favored by both Tagore and Ray, and Bodhi Das on the Khol and Tabla. The Khol is a rarely heard percussion instrument in this country.
The Ray Film and Study Center was established in 1993 as a focused research activity in the Humanities Division, UCSC. Since then it has built a comprehensive archive of Ray's films in 35mm, Ray papers, books, film art, music notations, several thousand production stills among other Ray film - related materials.
The program on May 2 will begin at 7 PM at the Humanities Lecture Hall, UCSC. There will be signs from the campus entrance directing motorists to the Lecture Hall. Parking is available at the Cowell and Stevenson College parking lots adjacent to the Lecture Hall.
Tickets are $10.00 and $5.00 for students and seniors. Tickets can be purchased at the door on the day of the show .
For more information please call (831) 459-4012 or email jpalines@ucsc.edu or dayani@ucsc.edu
Update — Thursday April 17th, 2008
On Friday, May 2, Satyajit Ray Film & Study Center presents "The Music of Satyajit Ray: Impact of Tagore" at 7 pm at the Humanities Lecture Hall, Cowell College campus in Santa Cruz.
A Rare & Unique Performance by Sharmila Roy-Pommot (Vocal) Shewli Basu (Esraj) Rajnarayan Bhattacharya (Tabla) Roy-Pommot, based in Paris, is arguably the top exponent/expert on Tagore and Ray's music.
Tickets are $10.00 and $5.00 for students and seniors. Tickets can be purchased at the door on the day of the show . For more information please call (831) 459-4012 or email jpalines@ucsc.edu or dayani@ucsc.edu.
Update — October 14th, 2007
The Packard Humanities Institute has given a $150 million gift to the Library of Congress to preserve and restore the nation's film and audio treasures. The Mercury News reported on the new National Audio-Visual Conservation Center: article image.
Update — September 4, 2007:
On Saturday, September 8, at 12 noon at the Del Mar Theatre in beautiful downtown Santa Cruz, the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection (Ray FASC) of UCSC Humanities Division and the Santa Cruz Film Festival present director Shyam Benegal in person with a screening of his 2001 film Zubeidaa (color, in Hindi with English subtitles).
Tickets are $8.00 and $7.00 for students and seniors. Tickets can be purchased at the door on the day of the show at The Del Mar Theatre. For more information please call 831 459-4012.
Update — May 9, 2007:
On Sunday, April 29, Pather Panchali was screened at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, to mark the 50th anniversary of the SF International Film Festival. Pather Panchali won the festival's first Golden Gate Awards for Best Film and Best Director 50 years ago.
The Satyajit Ray Society in Kolkata has launched a new website — www.satyajitrayworld.com
Update — October 5, 2006:
UCSC Currents: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to present annual Maitra Lecture at UCSC
http://currents.ucsc.edu/06-07/09-25/maitra.asp
Update — September 19, 2006:
UCSC Currents: Dynes lauds UCSC's Ray FASC archives at U.S.-India summit
http://currents.ucsc.edu/05-06/06-12/brief-basu.asp
Update — August 23, 2006:
Satyajit Ray Film & Study Collection
University of California, Santa Cruz
presents the sixth annual
Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture • 5:30 pm
The Tyranny of Identity
Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, Lamont Professor of Economics and Philosophy,
Harvard University
Film Screening • 7:30 pm
Satyajit Ray's The Home and the World (with English subtitles)
Saturday, October 7, 2006
Music Recital Hall, UCSC
Admission is free. For more information call (831) 459-4012 or (831) 459-4713.
Please follow directions to the UCSC campus and directions to the Music Center.
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Update — September 28, 2005:
Satyajit Ray Film & Study Collection
University of California, Santa Cruz
celebrates Ray’s Apu Trilogy
Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture 4 pm
Speakers: Dr. Partha Mitter & Ms. Sharmila Tagore
Fiftieth Anniversary Screening 5 pm
Pather Panchali (restored, with subtitles)
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Recital Hall, Performing Arts, UCSC
Admission Free. For more information call (831) 459-4012.
Please follow directions to the UCSC campus and directions to the Music Center.
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Update — April 21, 2005:
Press Release: Pather Panchali at Cannes
The Ray Society in Kolkata and the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection at the University of California, Santa Cruz are pleased to announce that the Cannes Festival 2005 will screen Pather Panchali on May 12 as a "kick-off" event at this year's Cannes Classics Series. Cannes Classics was introduced as an integral part of the festival three years ago.
This year Pather Panchali has been selected to honor it as one of the world's greatest films, on the fiftieth anniversary of its release in 1955. Pather Panchali received one of the most prestigious awards of the event in 1956 — the Best Human Document award.
Mr. Thierry Fremaux, Artistic Director of the Cannes Festival, was pleased to accept the proposal from the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection (Ray FASC) to honor Pather Panchali this year. Fremaux came to California to see the restored print of Pather Panchali. A special screening was arranged at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Archives. He approved of the print but requested that a brand new print be struck for the event at Cannes. The Academy offered to provide one with newly translated English subtitles. Cannes Classics Director, Van Papadopoulo, offered to prepare the French subtitles.
The Academy will be represented at the screening by its President — Oscar-winning screenwriter and director, Frank Pierson.
Mr. Somnath Chatterjee, President of the Ray Society, will be unable to attend because the Parliament will be in session on May 12. The Indian delegation will comprise Sandip Ray, Lalita Ray, Soumitra Chatterjee and Sharmila Tagore. Ray FASC will be represented by its director, Dilip Basu, and its curator, Dayani Kowshik.
Sandip Ray
Member-Secretary, The Ray Society
Phone: +91-0-33-2226 2728
April 20, 2005
Update — November 30, 2004:
Due to unavoidable circumstances and technical problems, the film festival program in Calcutta has been postponed indefinitely. We will still be showing some features at Goa, and hope to put on additional festivals in 2005. We sincerely apologize to anyone who has been inconvenienced by the cancellation.
Update — November 2, 2004:
Professor Dilip K. Basu, Director of Ray FASC, will speak on The Art of Satyajit Ray at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, 137 Greene Street, New York on November 13, 6:30-8:30 P.M. The lecture will be followed by a cocktail reception. RSVP by November 8: (212) 677-4520.
Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture and Events
Sunday, October 17, 2004
UC Santa Cruz
Free Admission
1:00 PM
Satyajit Ray Film Art: Opening Reception
An exhibition of Ray's storyboards, set and costume designs, posters, and graphic art
Opening reception at the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College, with a short violin raga by Sisirkana Dhar Chaudhuri
Sponsored by UCSC Art and Film Departments
3:00 PM
Screening of Satyajit Ray's 1957 classic film Jalsaghar (The Music Room) at the Music Recital Hall
5:30 PM
From Music Room to Talk Room
A lecture by Professor Nazir Jairazbhoy, UCLA
6:30 PM
Live Thumri Vocal Recital
Purnima Chaudhuri with Subha Jyoti Guha on tabla
Directions
Take High Street to the West Entrance (Heller Drive). Turn right on Meyer Drive to get to the Music Recital Hall.
If you are coming from outside Santa Cruz, please follow directions to the UCSC campus and directions to the Music Center.
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Update — August 26, 2004:
The University of Indiana at Bloomington will be screening four Ray films from September 10 to October 1. For more information, see http://www.indiana.edu/~isp/s04-08.shtml.
The Cinematexas Film Festival will be showing a retrospective of Ray's short films and
documentaries September 20-26. For more information, see http://cinematexas.org.
RayFASC and AMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) are sponsoring a number of upcoming festivals of restored Ray films:
December 10-16 in Calcutta, India
January 10-16 in Bangalore
March 15-20 in New Delhi
May 10-20 at the Cannes International Film Festival
AFI in Los Angeles showed Aparajito (The Unvanquished) on August 20.
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco screened a restored print of Nayak (The Hero) on August 4. The screening was sponsored by GreenCine.
Update — November 3, 2003:
The Apu Trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparajito and The World of Apu) was released on DVD on October 28 by Columbia Tristar. The New York Times published an article on November 2 reviewing the DVDs. The article is available online (free registration required) at http://www.nytimes.com/.
India West published an article on Sharmila Tagore's visit to California, "Fresh Outlook Key to Sharmila's Timeless Appeal". An excerpt from the article is available online at http://www.indiawest.com.
Update — October 10, 2003:
The Stanford Theatre in downtown Palo Alto is showing a 35 film Satyajit Ray retrospective from October 10th until December 21st. This will include a series of screenings of Ray films paired with some of Ray's favorite Hollywood movies. For a complete schedule and more information, please see http://www.stanfordtheatre.org.
Update — September 30, 2003:
The San Francisco Chronicle published an article on September 26, entitled "Indian director's works find home in Santa Cruz," covering Ray's work and the efforts of RayFASC to preserve it. The article is available online at http://www.sfgate.com.
