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.
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. Car Themes in Ritwik Ghatak's Ajantrik. Know About Indian Filmmaker - Satyajit Ray.