Category Archives: Auteur Tennis

S. Ray v. Wajda, Match #2, Set #5

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

The final set of the match between Satyajit Ray (India) and Andrzej Wajda (Poland) takes us to the year 1977, and once again the two directors find themselves on similar ground. Ray’s The Chess Players and Wajda’s Man of Marble both open with a newsreel-type sequence, Wajda’s a historical bent and Ray’s an educational one. [...]

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S. Ray v. Wajda, Match #2, Set #4

Friday, July 10th, 2009

After the initial sets of trilogies, set #4 of the match between Satyajit Ray and Andrzej Wajda maintains the consistency through a common theme for each of their next films: they must be about an actor and include trains as a significant aspect of the story. Ray, always the train enthusiast, jumps at the chance [...]

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