Literature

Our Films Their Films

Management No. BFM011248

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Contents: Contents Acknowledements vii Introduction = 1 What in Wrong with Indian Films? = 19 Extracts from a Banaras Diary = 25 A Long Time on the Little Road = 30 Problems of a Bengal Film Maker = 38 Winding Route to a Music Room = 44 Film Making = 48 The Odds against Us = 57 Some Aspects of My Craft = 63 Those Songs = 72 Meetings with a Maharaja = 76 An Indian New Wave? = 81 Four and a Qurter = 100 Renoir in Calcutta = 111 Some Italian Films I have Seen = 120 Hollywood Then and Now = 128 Thoughts on the British Cinema = 142 Calm Without, Fire Within = 152 Moscow Musings = 162 The Gold Rush = 168 Little Man, Big Book = 172 Akira Kurosawa = 180 Tokyo, Kyoto and Kurosawa = 187 New Wave and Old Master = 194 Silent Films = 199 A Tribute to John Ford = 208 Index = 213