Bandopadhyay's 1929 Bengali novel of the same name. The debut film of
the Indian director Satyajit Ray, it depicts the lives of a family from
a poor Indian village with two children, Apu (Subir Banerjee) and his
elder sister Durga (Uma Dasgupta). The film, shot mainly on location in
rural India, took nearly three years to complete. Sitar virtuoso Ravi
Shankar composed the score. After a screening in May at New York's
Museum of Modern Art, it was officially released in Kolkata on August
26, 1955, and was enthusiastically received after a slow start. Many
critics have praised the film's realism and humanity, though a few have
found fault with its slow pace; other critics have condemned it,
claiming it romanticizes poverty. The tale of Apu's life is continued in
Aparajito (The Unvanquished, 1956) and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu,
1959). The three films constitute the Apu Trilogy. Pather Panchali was a
pioneer film of the Parallel Cinema movement and was the first film from
independent India to attract major international attention, winning a
number of awards and establishing Ray as a major director. It has been
featured in lists of the greatest films ever made.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pather_Panchali>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1071:
Byzantine–Seljuq Wars: Seljuk Turks led by Alp Arslan
captured Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV at the Battle of Manzikert.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manzikert>
1789:
French Revolution: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of
the Citizen, defining a set of individual and collective rights of the
people, was approved by the National Constituent Assembly.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_of_the_Citizen>
1883:
A massive eruption destroyed the volcanic island of Krakatoa,
ejecting so much ash that average global temperatures fell by as much as
1.2 °C (2.2 °F) over the next year.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa>
1968:
The US Democratic Party's National Convention began at the
International Amphitheatre in Chicago, sparking four days of clashes
between anti–Vietnam War protesters and police.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention>
1977:
The National Assembly of Quebec declared French to be the only
official language of Quebec.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_French_Language>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
yeasayer:
1. One whose attitude is positive, optimistic, confidently affirmative.
2. (pejorative) One who habitually agrees uncritically.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yeasayer>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those
Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews not because they
really disliked them but because it was the thing.
--Christopher Isherwood
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christopher_Isherwood>
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