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This document announces the third edition of the acclaimed biography "Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye" by Andrew Robinson, published to mark Ray's birth centenary in 2021. The new edition includes previously unpublished conversations with Ray, new images from the author's collection, and an epilogue discussing Ray's genius. Acclaimed directors like Kurosawa, Scorsese, and Attenborough have praised Ray as a rare genius. The biography provides an in-depth critical analysis of each of Ray's films from his debut in 1955 to his final feature in 1991, based on extensive interviews.

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PR Satyajit Ray The Inner Eye

This document announces the third edition of the acclaimed biography "Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye" by Andrew Robinson, published to mark Ray's birth centenary in 2021. The new edition includes previously unpublished conversations with Ray, new images from the author's collection, and an epilogue discussing Ray's genius. Acclaimed directors like Kurosawa, Scorsese, and Attenborough have praised Ray as a rare genius. The biography provides an in-depth critical analysis of each of Ray's films from his debut in 1955 to his final feature in 1991, based on extensive interviews.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye


The Biography of a Master Film-Maker

Andrew Robinson

 New edition of an acclaimed biography marking


rd
3 Edition Satyajit Ray's birth centenary in 2021
Pub date: 21st October 2021
Paperback 9781350258495: £24.99
 Includes a previously unpublished conversation with the
Ebook 9781350258525: £22.49 director and new images from the author's private
collection
Previous edition reviews:
Akira Kurosawa said of the great director: ‘Not to have seen the cinema of
‘An extraordinarily good,
Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.’ Martin
detailed and selfless book.’
V. S. Naipaul, Nobel Scorsese remarked on Ray’s birth centenary in 2021: ‘The films of Satyajit
laureate in literature Ray are truly treasures of cinema, and everyone with an interest in film needs
to see them.’ Richard Attenborough, who acted a major role in a Ray film,
‘Extremely thorough, often called Ray a ‘rare genius’.
perceptive and at times
highly entertaining. It is
good to have a sympathetic Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye is the definitive biography, based on extensive
portrait of one of the giants interviews with Ray himself, his actors and collaborators, and a deep
of the cinema.’ Salman knowledge of Bengali culture. Andrew Robinson provides an in-depth critical
Rushdie, London Review of
Books account of each film in an astonishingly versatile career, from Ray’s
directorial debut Pather Panchali (1955) to his final feature Agantuk (1991).
‘A signal salute to integrity.’ The third (centenary) edition includes new material: an epilogue, ‘A Century
Lindsay Anderson, The of Ray’, about the nature of his genius; a wide-ranging conversation with Ray
Spectator drawn from the author’s interviews; and an updated comprehensive
‘Impressively researched …
bibliography of Ray’s writings.
Mr. Robinson … uses his
informal writing style to
illuminate the director’s Andrew Robinson is the author of more than two dozen books on a wide
genius’ New York Times range of subjects. They include biographies of artists and scientists such as
Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein, a large-format photographic
‘Andrew Robinson’s
study, Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema (2005), and The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit
exhaustive appreciation is a
welcome guide to a fuller Ray and the Making of an Epic (2011). He has also written about Ray for major
understanding of this newspapers and magazines, such as the Financial Times, the New York Times,
singular film-maker.’ Sight American Cinematographer and Sight and Sound.
and Sound

For more information and to request a review copy or author interview


please contact: shereen.muhyeddeen@bloomsbury.com

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