Stanley Kubrick's favorite films - My Criterion. By Joshua Warren Created 10/27/12 Edit List I think Kubrick would have loved The Criterion Collection if he was still alive today and quite a lot of the films that have been cited as his favorites are in the collection. Since Kubrick was such a famously reclusive (or "private" as he preferred to call it) and rarely interviewed person, it's very interesting to get a glimpse what kind of films that inspired and entertained him. (I've compiled most of the information on this list from interviews with Kubrick's family, friends and colleagues, an interview he did in 1957 for Cahiers du cinéma as well as an interview in 1963 for Cinema magazine and the 'Master list' by the BFI.)
I have presented these films here in no particular order. Cited films that aren't in the collection: Eraserhead, Citizen Kane, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Godfather, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dog Day Afternoon, Roxie Hart, Hell's Angels, An American Werewolf in London, E.T. PORTRAIT OF THE DIRECTOR - Ritwik Ghatak. Films of Ritwik Ghatak by Erin O'Donnell 1. Riwik Ghatak constructs detailed visual and aural commentaries of Bengal in the socially and politically tumultuous period from the late 1940s to the early 1970s.
Here seen in his last, semi-autobiographical film, Jukti Takko Ar Gappo / Arguments and a Story (1974). Ghatak’s theme: the 1947 partition of India and its profound after-effects Pakistan was composed of two geographically separate (over 1,250 miles apart) and culturally, linguistically different parts: West Pakistan—now known as simply Pakistan—and East Pakistan—now known as Bangladesh. Note location of Calcutta. Bengal was physically rent apart—by the 1947 Partition, engendered by the departing British colonizers, and by the Bangladeshi War of Independence in 1971. Here, a map of the 1947 Partition of Bengal. The final scene of Nemai Gosh’s Chinnamul, a saga about Bengali farmers forced to move to Calcutta because of Partition. “In Komal Gandhar [E-Flat], I had to face the problem of operating at different levels. ... To top. Car Themes in Ritwik Ghatak's Ajantrik. Know About Indian Filmmaker - Satyajit Ray.