Clips and interviews show that the renowned Satyajit Ray was more than just a filmmaker: He was a sketch illustrator, a music composer, a children's book creator, an all around intellectual.

I enjoyed Peter Tonguette’s article on Jean Renoir’s 1951 film “The River” (Masterpiece, Sept. 4). When Renoir was in Calcutta to shoot the movie, he was helped in location scouting by a young local ...

Few directors have captured the pulse of a city with as much nuance and empathy as Satyajit Ray. While his earlier works, especially The Apu Trilogy, explored rural Bengal with lyrical realism, it was ...