This is FRESH AIR. The Indian director Satyajit Ray, who died in 1992, first came to prominence in the 1950s with the three films known as "The Apu Trilogy," which quickly became an international ...
Even if you live in the same city or town your whole life, the place you came from is always a distant country: Old trees are cut down to be replaced, one hopes, by new ones; shops and businesses ...
Such trivia is perhaps outworn, but the trilogy itself stands the test of time, aided by a new and magnificent 4K digital restoration. The films take as their protagonist Apu: a young boy, later to ...