They are popular enough that you can find them in airports in India, or you could about five years ago? The volume of them is staggering – the two-volume edition of Feluda in English that Penguin put out is maybe 1500 pages. They're explicitly for children & very Sherlock Holmes-y but still still pleasant. What surprised me most about them is that there are almost no female characters in any of them? Maybe this was some sort of Bengali children's writing convention at the time?
Worth picking up if you can find a copy is this – not only was Ray doing his own graphic design and posters, he was also making his own typefaces, in Roman and Bengali.
― with hidden noise, Saturday, 26 June 2021 13:18 (two years ago) link
Criterion has The Coward, a brief (69 minutes!) examination of thwarted desire. Shot with compassion and precision; he has an instinct for knowing how long to hold moments.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 January 2023 14:35 (one year ago) link
Apu Trilogy getting Criterioned
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1145-the-apu-trilogy
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 October 2023 17:45 (six months ago) link
Weird. They got the Criterion treatment a few years ago. Our library has the set.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 October 2023 18:43 (six months ago) link
This is a 4K upgrade.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 October 2023 19:32 (six months ago) link
Yeah, I just realized my mistake.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 October 2023 19:38 (six months ago) link