Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye The Biography of a Master Film-Maker
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Biographical note
Andrew Robinson is the author of more than two dozen books on a wide range of subjects. They include biographies of artists and scientists such as Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein, a large-format photographic study, Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema (2005), and The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic (2011). He has also written about Ray for major newspapers and magazines, such as the Financial Times, the New York Times, American Cinematographer and Sight and Sound.Extremely thorough, often perceptive and at times highly entertaining. It is good to have a sympathetic portrait of one of the giants of the cinema.
- Salman Rushdie, London Review of Books,
A signal salute to integrity.
- Lindsay Anderson, The Spectator,
Mr Robinson's close analysis of the warp and woof of Mr Ray's work makes an almost unanswerable case for the defense.
- The Economist,
A glorious book, a feast of research and insight.
- Films and Filming,
Andrew Robinson has managed to combine research with knowledge and analysis to produce what could become an enduring work of reference on the technique and narrative brilliance of the cinema of Ray.
- India Today,