sukumar ray is a 1987 bengali short documentary film made by satyajit ray on his father , sukumar ray .

it was released during the birth centenary year of sukumar ray , who was born on 30 october 1887 .

the thirty minutes documentary features the life and some of the works by sukumar ray in the form of paintings , photographs and readings .

this is the last documentary made by satyajit ray as a tribute to his father , before he died in 1992 .

the documentary used sukumar ray 's photographs and paintings than video recording as the film was considerably a new medium in india when sukumar ray died in 1923 .

sukumar ray ( film )

the film presents the life and work of the writer sukumar ray , satyajit ray ' s father . ray made this film as a tribute to celebrate the centenary of his birth . the film comprises still photographs and readings from sukumar ray ' s writings .
the life and work of the writer sukumar ray , satyajit ray ' s father . ray made this film as a tribute to celebrate the centenary of his birth . the film comprises still photographs and readings from sukumar ray ' s writings .
documentary by satyajit ray on his father sukumar ray and his work – including dramatisations of sequences from his writings .
sukumar ray , upendrakishore’s son and father of satyajit , was a pioneering bengali writer of nonsense rhyme and children’s literature , an illustrator and a critic . ray was born to sukumar and suprabha ray in calcutta .
however , she turns out to be his friend sukumar ' s younger sister .
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ray received 32 national film awards by the government of india , and awards at international film festivals .
chaudhuri , sukanta ( ed . and trans . ) , the select nonsense of sukumar ray ( calcutta : oxford university press , 1987 )
one of my close friends , who is a respected author , never travels without carrying a volume of sukumar ray’s complete works with him .
born in 1887 , sukumar ray was the father of the famous indian film director , satyajit ray . sukumar ' s father , upendrakisore , had set up his own printing press in his house in calcutta and wrote a number of articles on printing for the british printing journal , the penrose annual , from 1897 to 1912 .
robinson , andrew , ' selected letters of sukumar ray ' , south asia research 7 . 2 ( nov . 1987 ) , pp . 169 - 236
with an ensemble cast , this film had ray ' s first original screenplay .
sukumar ray was made a fellow of the royal photographic society in 1922 . he was famous for his humourous ' literary nonsense ' and was also a story - writer and illustrator .
( who even made a film about sukumar in 1987 - - i haven ' t seen it ) . ray spent some time in england , where he studied printing technology , which enabled him to make some beautiful illustrations for his books [
, and i came across sukumar ray , a highly prolific writer of surrealist children ' s stories in the 1910s and 20s . he was part of the presidency college circle of bengali intellectuals in calcutta , and he was the father of acclaimed film maker
ray is the second film personality after chaplin to have been awarded honorary doctorates by oxford university .
satyajit ray had won the maximum number of the coveted national film awards ( the indian version of the oscars ) . he won 32 national film awards .
this 1969 - film based on a short story by ray’s grandfather upendrakishore ray chowdhury has goopy and bagha , two yokels , as its protagonists .
sukumar ray ( 1887 - 1923 ) , the eldest son of upendra kishore , studied printing technology in england and joined the family business . he was an eminent poet , writer and illustrator of nonsense literature in the tradition of lewis carroll and edward lear . sukumar ray fell ill the year satyajit ray was born with a dreaded tropical disease of the time - kala - azar . he regularly contributed poems , stories and illustrations to ' sandesh ' , a children ' s magazine in bengali which satyajit ray ' s grandfather had started publishing and printing .
on satyajit ray ' s 93rd birth anniversary , his son sandip ray discusses his favourite movies .
in this 1962 film ray made brilliant use of fog as the protagonist to portray the complexities of human relationships .
the legend first stepped into this world on 2 nd may 1921 . art was in his blood ; his father sukumar roy , grandfather upendra kishore roy choudhury are stars of bengali literature . sukumar ray first introduced nonsense verse in indian literature . he inherited the talent from his family . having a rich cultural atmosphere , paved his way to becoming the godfather of indian cinema . in 1955 he debuted with his first film pather panchali ( the tale of a little road ) . the trajectory of indian cinema changed afterward .
however , on this day , they had a disagreement . two bengali films had released , the latest suchitra sen starrer and the first film directed by a former advertising executive and illustrator . nihar was determined to watch the suchitra sen film while my father was committed to watching the other one . “it’s directed by sukumar ray’s son , ” he explained . “and it’s based on one of the classics of bengali literature . this film could be interesting . ”
audiences are also discovering the lesser known ray films including chiriakhana and kapurush mahapurush . ray & apos ; s documentaries on tagore and his father , poet and writer sukumar ray , have drawn a niche crowd . ray & apos ; s children & apos ; s films such as sonar kella , joy baba felunath , goopy gyne bagha byne and hirak rajar deshe have already attracted healthy box office bookings for september .
many literary works include references to ray or his work , including saul bellow’s herzog and j . m . coetzee’s youth . salman rushdie’s haroun and the sea of stories contains fish characters named goopy and bagha , a tribute to ray’s fantasy film . in 1993 , uc santa cruz established the satyajit ray film and study collection , and in 1995 , the government of india set up satyajit ray film and television institute for studies related to film . in 2007 , british broadcasting corporation declared that two feluda stories would be made into radio programs . [ 91 ] during the london film festival , a regular “satyajit ray award” is given to a first - time feature director whose film best captures “the artistry , compassion and humanity of ray’s vision” . wes anderson has claimed ray as an influence on his work ; his 2007 film , the darjeeling limited , set in india , is dedicated to ray .
in 1947 , with some film - enthusiast friends , he set up the calcutta film society , the first film club of its kind in india , dedicated to watching and discussing the best of world cinema .
even though i am in my 30s i love reading sukumar ray . his work appeals to all ages . though i don ' t think his works can be translated that easily . it is so much fun to read his original works in bengali than in english .
ray could now become a full - time film director . he started work on pather panchali’s sequel aparajito ( the unvanquished ) , which is the finest—and most heart - rending—film of the apu trilogy .
upendra kishore’s sons and daughters were all gifted writers and / or painters . the eldest son , sukumar , was a genius by any benchmark one can set . the stories and poems he wrote for children—of all ages—are quite simply unparalleled for their humour , imagination and the spirit of absurd whimsy . there is not a single bengali who has maintained some contact with his culture who cannot recite at least a few lines from one of sukumar’s poems .
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ray , satyajit ( 1921 - 1992 ) oscar winning film director , photographer , painter , writer of juvenile literature and musicologist . satyajit ray was born in kolkata on 2 may 1921 . his parents hailed from the village masua of kishoreganj district of bangladesh . his father , sukumar ray , a noted writer , editor and photographer , graduated from manchester university school of technology and was a fellow of the royal photographic society of great britain . his mother , suprova ray , was a singer and earned repute for her skills in handicrafts . his grandfather , upendrakishore ray chowdhury , was a well - known litterateur , painter , photographer , block designer and editor of the juvenile journal sandesh ( 1913 ) . satyajit ' s wife bijoya ray was a musicologist and a film actress . his son swandip ray is a noted photographer , graphic artist and a film director .
ray was , without knowing it , the first “graphic designer” in india . what milton glaser was doing in the us , ray was doing at signet press . he even designed two english typefaces : ray roman and ray bizarre .
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) , a tragic love triangle set within a wealthy , western - influenced bengali family in 1879 , is perhaps ray’s most accomplished film .
ray , satyajit . the apu trilogy : pather panchali , aparajito , apur sansar . [ film scripts ] calcutta : seagull books , 1985 .
ray’s international career started in earnest after the success of his next film , aparajito ( the unvanquished ) . this film shows the eternal struggle between the ambitions of a young man , apu , and the mother who loves him . critics such as mrinal sen and ritwik ghatak rank it higher than ray’s first film . aparajito won the golden lion at the venice film festival , bringing ray considerable acclaim . before completing the apu trilogy , ray directed and released two other films : the comic parash pathar ( the philosopher’s stone ) , and jalsaghar ( the music room ) , a film about the decadence of the zamindars , considered one of his most important works .
ray had long been a fan of the 1916 novel the home and the world , by the nobel prize–winning bengali writer rabindranath tagore . in 1948 , seven years before pather panchali saw the light of a projector , he and his friend and fellow film lover harisadhan dasgupta were planning a film adaptation of tagore’s book . after dasgupta bought the rights to the book ( for a hefty sum ) from the author’s estate , ray summarily wrote a script . the pair then found a producer in a friend from the calcutta film society , which ray had cofounded ; hired an art director ; and even began scouting locations . tagore occupied a special place in ray’s heart , as not only had he been a close friend of ray’s father , sukumar , but he had founded the visva - bharati university in santiniketan , which had helped define ray’s artistic identity when he studied there .
sukumar ray arrived in england in the autumn of 1911 and initially lodged with the northbrook society at 21 cromwell road . he studied printing at the london school of photo engraving and lithography in bolt street , run by london county council , and then went to manchester and studied at the manchester school of technology . in manchester , he wrote letters to his parents from 12 thorncliffe grove and then 65 ducie grove . ray was present in london when rabindranath tagore visited the city in 1912 ; tagore was a friend of his father ' s in calcutta . he often visited the house of dr and mrs p . k . ray in london to eat indian food and meet other indians in london . at p . k . ray ' s house , sukumar ray met k . g . gupta and later married his niece .
international bangla film critic award 2012 : best personality in 100 years of indian cinema .
the crew was under no permanent contract or organisation . and yet , the crew members and actors always made themselves available for his films . it was partly due to this obligation that ray moved from one film to another rapidly , making about one film a year .
in 1950 , d . j . keymer sent ray to london to work at its headquarters office . during his three months in london , ray watched 99 films . among these was the neorealist film ladri di biciclette ( bicycle thief ) ( 1948 ) by vittorio de sica , which had a profound impact on him . ray later said that he came out of the theater determined to become a film - maker .
at the venice film festival , where he had previously won a golden lion for aparajito ( 1956 ) , he was awarded the golden lion honorary award in 1982 . that same year , he received an honorary “hommage à satyajit ray” award at the 1982 cannes film festival .
unfortunately , u . ray & sons was also going bankrupt , in spite of the best efforts of sukumar’s brother subinay , another gifted writer . the company changed hands , the palatial house the family used to live in was sold , and satyajit was brought up by his mother at her brother’s home , contributing to the household expenses by teaching needlework in a widows’ home .
while working in london , ray feasted on films ( he finally got to watch renoir’s la regle du jeu , which he rated as one of the best films ever made ) . and then one day , he watched the italian film the bicycle thief ( or thieves ; strangely enough , the film goes by both names—ray refers to it in his writings as both thief and thieves ) directed by vittorio de sica . the film changed his life .
s atyajit ray was born into an illustrious family in calcutta in 1921 . his grandfather , upendra kishore ray - chaudhary , was a publisher , musician and the creator of children’s literature in bengali . his father , sukumar ray , was a noted satirist and india ' s first writer of nonsense rhymes , akin to the nonsense verse of edward lear . later in life , satyajit ray made a documentary of his father ' s life . his film , goopy gyne bagha byne , was based on a story published by his grandfather in 1914 , but even other films , such as hirok rajah deshe ,
the kingdom of diamonds
, clearly drew upon his interest in children’s poetry and nonsense rhymes .
satyajit ray was born in 1921 in a bengali brahmo family that boasted almost incredible amounts of talent . his grandfather upendra kishore ray chaudhuri was as much a renaissance man as his close friend rabindranath tagore . straddling the worlds of science and arts , he was a printing technologist and inventor , an extremely gifted painter and violinist , and possibly the greatest children’s writer bengal has ever produced ( the only competition comes from his son sukumar , satyajit’s father ) .
ray wrote the script and approached a few producers . he knew no one in the bengali film industry and they were cold calls . fortunately for him , bibhutibhushan’s widow , rama , was impressed by the passionate young man ( his genealogy helped ) , and agreed to give the film rights to the novel to him , as and when he raised the money to fund the film . in fact , one rich producer whom ray approached , reneged and contacted her , saying he would buy the rights and make the film , to be directed by the then famous bengali director debaki bose , but rama steadfastly refused . she had placed her faith on ray for making a film that would do justice to her late husband’s greatest work .
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the film portrays the hopelessness of the middle - class , educated , urban youth in modern india .
winner – 1957 – golden lion of st . mark for best film – aparajito ( the unvanquished )
celebrating the birth centenary of his father , whom he lost at the age of three , ray made his last documentary by going back to his roots and looking back at his own influences . it is more a history of his family over the course of the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century . ray talks about his grandfather upendrakishore and then about his father sukumar—their contributions in the field of literature , illustrations and printing . unlike any of his other documentaries , ray left the narration to soumitra chatterjee .
satyajit ray received numerous awards , both personal and for the films he made . this section contains an extensive list of the awards and honors ray received .
sukumar roy writings , even today , are among the most beloved by bengalis . this is especially true of his book of ' nonsense poems ' abol tabol ( which literally means gibberish ) . kids love their ' silliness ' while adults love their double entendres which lampoon casteism , snobbery and other lampoonable stuff .
michael koresky is the editorial director of the film society of lincoln center in new york ; a cofounder and editor of the online film magazine reverse shot ; and a frequent contributor to film comment and the criterion collection . he is also the author of terence davies ( university of illinois press , 2014 ) .
in 1949 , french film director jean renoir arrived in calcutta , to do the initial recce for his film the river . renoir , the son of pierre renoir , the great impressionist painter , was already acknowledged as a master film director . his la grande illusion ( 1937 ) was the first foreign - language film to be nominated for a best film oscar . his 1939 film the rules of the game ( la regle du jeu ) , with its deep - focus cinematography and moving cameras , had influenced cinematic technique as much as citizen kane ( which ray had missed on its first release because he was in shantiniketan ) , and is today regularly cited as one of the greatest films ever made .
but ray’s imagination was fired . this was the movie he wanted to make .
aparajito principally deals with apu’s teenage years . in the mid - 1980s , when i was living in an extremely cosmopolitan multilingual college hostel , doordarshan showed the film , sub - titled superbly by ray himself . i had watched the film before , but was willing to see it once again .
this 1976 - film is based on the novel of the same name by mani shankar mukherjee aka shankar .
in 1949 , ray married bijoya das , his first cousin and longtime sweetheart . the couple had a son , sandip , who is now a film director . in the same year , french director jean renoir came to calcutta to shoot his film the river . ray helped him to find locations in the countryside . ray told renoir about his idea of filming pather panchali , which had long been on his mind , and renoir encouraged him in the project .
a clipping from the film goopy gyne bagha byne where the king of ghosts ( “bhuter raja” ) grants goopy and bagha three boons . significantly satyajit ray used his own voice for the voice of king of ghosts ( “bhuter raja” ) . in this scene king of ghosts is speaking in rhyme . in 1980 , ray made a sequel to goopy gyne bagha byne , hirak rajar deshe , in this film too , most of the dialogues exchanged by the protagonists of the film were rhyming .
dr roy , a great physician and perhaps the canniest bengali politician before jyoti basu , was , however , a man completely disinterested in the arts . he had probably seen about a dozen films in his entire life . but he wanted to help , because this was sukumar’s son , and the cause seemed all right . no government agency in india had ever financed a film till then ; no one had even thought of the possibility .
s atyajit ray was india ' s first internationally recognized film - maker and , several years after his death , still remains the most well - known indian director on the world stage . ray has written that he became captivated by the cinema as a young college student , and he was self - taught , his film education consisting largely of repeated viewings of film classics by de sica , fellini , john ford , orson welles , and other eminent directors . with the release in 1955 of his first film pather panchali (
song of the road
) , whose financing presented ray with immense monetary problems , compelling him even to pawn his wife’s jewelry , he brought the neo - realist movement in film to india . little could anyone have imagined that this first film would launch ray on one of the most brilliant careers in the history of cinema , leading eventually not only to dozens of international awards , india’s highest honor , and a lifetime achievement oscar from hollywood , but the unusual accolade of being voted by members of the british film institute as one of the three greatest directors in world cinema .
so , pather panchali went to the cannes film festival . no one was interested . it was exhibited late at night at a small theatre . possibly a dozen people attended the screening . one of them , francois truffaut , then a critic with the radical french film journal cahiers du cinema , and who would go one to become a great film director , left the hall within 10 minutes , bored by the slow pace of the film . truffaut later apologized publicly and several times , and ray and he became good friends .
as my favourite film critic , the late great roger ebert put it , the bicycle thief stands outside time .
the film is about an upper class bengali family on vacation in darjeeling , a popular hill station near kanchenjunga .
based on a novella by ace writer sunil gangopadhyay , this much acclaimed 1970 ray film focuses on a group of friends escaping the bustle of the city by heading to a tribal outpost in bihar .
so , i am a bit of a biased person when i write about ray .
reading : i would strongly recommend andrew robinson’s book the inner eye , one of the best books on film i know . we now have a new robinson book the apu trilogy : satyajit ray and the making of an epic , and keya ganguly’s book cinema , emergence and the films of satyajit ray , in which she makes the ( unusual ) case for him as an avant - garde modernist . there is also a collection of ray’s writings on film our lives , their lives .
decades later , my father and his cousin were still laughing about that day . neither could remember the name of the suchitra sen film , but the world had refused to forget—and will never do so—the film my father had gone to watch : pather panchali ( the song of the road ) , directed by satyajit ray . in fact , quite by chance , my father had been one of the first few hundred people to watch a film that would be one of the greatest landmarks in indian film history , put our cinema on the world map , and launch a filmmaking career of astonishing creativity that would inspire and open the doors of perception for several generations of film directors .
he also wrote essays on film , published as the collections : our films , their films ( 1976 ) , bishoy chalachchitra ( 1976 ) , and ekei bole shooting ( 1979 ) . during the mid - 1990s , ray’s film essays and an anthology of short stories were also published in english in the west . our films , their films is an anthology of film criticism by ray . the book contains articles and personal journal excerpts . the book is presented in two sections : ray first discusses indian film , before turning his attention toward hollywood , specific filmmakers ( charlie chaplin and akira kurosawa ) , and movements such as italian neorealism . his book bishoy chalachchitra was published in translation in 2006 as speaking of films . it contains a compact description of his philosophy of different aspects of the cinema . [ edit ] ray as calligrapher
ray considered making a film on the bangladesh liberation war but later abandoned the idea . he said that , as a filmmaker , he was more interested in the travails of the refugees and not the politics . in 1977 , ray completed shatranj ke khiladi ( the chess players ) , a hindi film based on a story by munshi premchand . it was set in lucknow in the state of oudh , a year before the indian rebellion of 1857 . a commentary on issues related to the colonization of india by the british , this was ray’s first feature film in a language other than bengali . it is his most expensive and star - studded film , featuring sanjeev kumar , saeed jaffrey , amjad khan , shabana azmi , victor bannerjee and richard attenborough .
banarjee , the cinematic possibilities of which began to intrigue him . ray had long been an
he was a ray of light . it illuminated and showed the way and the possibilities .
dasgupta , chidananda . the cinema of satyajit ray . new delhi : vikas , 1980 .
sukumar ray died when satyajit was barely three , and the family survived on suprabha ray’s meager income . ray studied at ballygunge government high school , calcutta , and completed his b . a . ( hons . ) in economics at presidency college of the university of calcutta , though his interest was always in fine arts . in 1940 , his mother insisted that he study at the visva - bharati university at santiniketan , founded by rabindranath tagore . ray was reluctant due to his love of calcutta , and the low opinion of the intellectual life at santiniketan [ 10 ] his mother’s persuasion and his respect for tagore finally convinced him to try . in santiniketan , ray came to appreciate oriental art . he later admitted that he learned much from the famous painters nandalal bose and benode behari mukherjee . later he produced a documentary film , the inner eye , about mukherjee . his visits to ajanta , ellora and elephanta stimulated his admiration for indian art .
to celebrate 100 years of indian cinema , the british film institute in london has organised a retrospective of the films of satyajit ray . and the films are drawing audiences to the theatres in droves , says shrabani basu
this was ray’s last chance . he approached west bengal chief minister dr b . c . roy , who had been a friend of his father . could the government give him some money to finish the film ?
in 1962 , ray directed kanchenjungha . based on his first original screenplay , it was his first film in colour . the film tells of an upper - class family spending an afternoon in darjeeling , a picturesque hill town in west bengal . they try to arrange the engagement of their youngest daughter to a highly paid engineer educated in london . he had first conceived shooting the film in a large mansion , but later decided to film it in the famous hill town . he used the many shades of light and mist to reflect the tension in the drama . ray noted that while his script allowed shooting to be possible under any lighting conditions , a commercial film contingent present at the same time in darjeeling failed to shoot a single scene , as they only wanted to do so in sunshine .
at the 11th moscow international film festival in 1979 , he was awarded with the honorable prize for the contribution to cinema .
a brilliant science student , sukumar studied photography and printing technology in england after his graduation ( he topped the class at the manchester school of printing technology ) , and invented a new technique of halftone block - making that even earned him a small mention in encyclopedia britannica . back in india , he took charge of the printing company his father had set up , u . ray & sons , one of the finest presses in the country , and of sandesh .
filmgoer , and his deepening interest in the medium inspired his first attempts to write screenplays and his cofounding ( 1947 ) of the calcutta film society . in 1949 ray was encouraged in his cinematic ambitions by the french director
jana aranya , also based on a sankar novel , is perhaps ray’s most cynical film . it is shot in a style that is as un - ray - like that one can imagine . there are no beautifully planned shots and camera angles . it runs like a hard cold documentary as it follows its young protagonist from innocence to moral degeneration while he tries to make a living . but , as the film reaches its climax , ray uses a little known tagore song as the audio background as he sharply intercuts to show all the major characters of the film , and create an extraordinarily affecting and haunted atmosphere while his hero travels to his greatest moral compromise . it is as near - perfect a use of lyrics and music as anyone has got to in the history of film .
once he stated , “i can do without music , i can use actual sounds creatively to serve the purpose of music , after all ideally one should be able to do without music completely… . ideally , a film ought to be able to do without music” . that may sound contradictory while he experimented with his film music . but he proved why he is a film institution . in the film kanchanjangha , we can notice a character who is mentally devastated , confused , where he has used the visual language of film . a boy carrying a bag of metal wastages create a noir which depicts the psychological state of the character .
the los angeles - based academy of motion picture arts and sciences then worked closely with several expert groups to preserve the films . till now it has preserved 18 of ray & apos ; s feature films and one short film . the restoration was carried out by the satyajit ray preservation project , california , in collaboration with the academy film archive , los angeles , the merchant ivory foundation ( new york ) and the film foundation , set up by the director , martin scorsese . the restored films were all made available by the academy of motion picture arts and sciences .
almost every film of ray reflects a great involvement of fusion music . at the starting of his film life , other composers used to direct music of his movies but later he started himself . actually according to him , in that period no indian composer was properly trained to compose music for the film . they were habituated with concert music . hence , they could not limit their music to a 30 - second limit and directors had to cut the music . that was a major problem . though he never undermined their contributions , as he told , “they were not film composers , they were virtuosos” .
in 1996 , entertainment weekly magazine ranked ray at # 25 in its “50 greatest directors” list .
to celebrate 100 years of indian cinema , the british film institute in london has organised a retrospective of the films of satyajit ray . and the films are drawing audiences to the theatres in droves , says shrabani basu | read»
alfred hitchcock , a director of directors , talking about his film vertigo , which is regularly rated in various polls as a great film , said that this was one film he made that he had complete control over . every detail in the film was dictated by him . “if you see a yellow volkswagen passing by on the road outside the room where my characters are meeting , then you should know that i chose a volkswagen , and it is yellow because i chose that colour , ” he once said .
based on rabindranath tagore’s novella noshtoneer , this 1964 - film set in 1870s kolkata tells the tale of a housewife , charu .
beneath its sunny veneer , the film has a dark centre and gradually turns into a commentary on the squalor of urban life .
satyajit ray designed four typefaces for roman script named ray roman , ray bizarre , daphnis , and holiday script , apart from numerous bengali ones for the sandesh magazine . ray roman and ray bizarre won an international competition in 1971 . in certain circles of calcutta , ray continued to be known as an eminent graphic designer , well into his film career . ray illustrated all his books and designed covers for them , as well as creating all publicity material for his films , i . e . , ray’s artistic playing with the bangla graphemes was also revealed in the cine posters and cine promo - brochures’ covers . he also designed covers of several books by other authors . in his calligraphic technique there are deep impacts of : ( a ) artistic pattern of european musical staff notation in the graphemic syntagms ; ( b ) alpana ( “ritual painting” mainly practiced by bengali women at the time of religious festival ; the term denotes ‘to coat with’ . generally categorized as “folk” - art cf . in ray’s graphemic representations .
from 1959–64 ray composed films on the british raj period ( such as devi ) , a documentary on tagore , a comic film ( mahapurush ) and his first film from an original screenplay ( kanchenjungha ) . he also made a series of films that , taken together , are considered by critics among the most deeply felt portrayals of indian women on screen .
ray’s film successes had little influence on his personal life in the years to come . he continued to live with his wife and children in a rented house , with his mother , uncle and other members of his extended family .
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ray decided to use pather panchali ( 1928 ) , the classic bildungsroman of bengali literature , as the basis for his first film . the semi - autobiographical novel describes the maturation of apu , a small boy in a bengal village .
along with chidananda dasgupta and others , ray founded the calcutta film society in 1947 . they screened many foreign films , many of which ray watched and seriously studied . he befriended the american gis stationed in calcutta during world war ii , who kept him informed about the latest american films showing in the city . he came to know a raf employee , norman clare , who shared ray’s passion for films , chess and western classical music .
satyajit ray ; adapted from the play : ' an enemy of the people ' by henrik ibsen .
it is the last among ray ' s calcutta trilogy , the previous two being pratidwandi and seemabaddha .
satyajit ray , an indian filmmaker and among the dozen or so great masters of world cinema , is known for his humanistic approach to cinema . a true auteur , ray directly controlled many aspects of filmmaking .
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mojontali shorkar .
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meanwhile , other things were happening . ray was already recognized as a star in his profession , and was perhaps one of the highest paid creative directors in the indian advertising industry . but his heart was elsewhere : he wanted to make films ( ray was thus the first of a long line of indian admen who left their jobs to become film directors , from shyam benegal to dibakar banerjee , many of them inspired by ray ; benegal , in fact , has often acknowledged ray’s influence on him and made an authoritative documentary on the man in 1982 ) .
at the time of the second world war , and the final period of india’s independence struggle , ray was employed as a graphic artist at a publishing house in calcutta designing covers of books as well as illustrations of content . one of these books was bibuthibhushan bandhopadhyay’s pather panchali which immediately inspired ray as the subject for his first film . ray received further inspiration when he met french master jean renoir during pre - production of his bengal - set the river . his visits to the set of the river formed lasting friendships with art director bansi chandragupta ( who became ray’s regular art director ) and future cinematographer subrata mitra . pather panchali ( song of the little road ) , released in 1955 after a difficult three - year production would be the fruit of ray’s tenacity and uncompromising will . made with an inexperienced cast and crew outside the system of commercial indian cinema , the film became a great international success winning a special prize at the cannes film festival .
over about four decades—counting from the day he started shooting pather panchali to the release of his last film , agantuk , ray directed 28 feature films , plus several documentaries ( including sikkim , sponsored by the king of sikkim , when it was still an independent country ; the film was banned in india by indira gandhi and remains banned till date ) and short films , and one telefilm .
) and its two sequels , known as the apu trilogy . as a director ray was noted for his
seton , marie . portrait of a director : satyajit ray . bloomington : indiana university press , 1971 .
the most cynical film he ever made was jana aranya ( the middleman , 1975 ) —and ray was the only film director who could get away with showing a corrupt bureaucrat with a framed photo of then prime minister indira gandhi on his wall ; the film was released during the emergency . but even in jana aranya , as the protagonist goes around trying to find a sex worker he can supply to a rich businessman to get a contract , the women are treated with a respect and sophistication that is almost unmatched in world cinema .
ray was an only child whose father died in 1923 . his grandfather was a writer and illustrator , and his father , sukumar ray , was a writer and illustrator of bengali nonsense verse . ray grew up in calcutta and was looked after by his mother . he entered a government school , where he was taught chiefly in bengali , and then studied at presidency college , calcutta’s leading college , where he was taught in english . by the time he graduated in 1940 , he was fluent in both languages . in 1940 his mother persuaded him to attend art school at santiniketan , rabindranath tagore’s rural university northwest of calcutta . there ray , whose interests had been exclusively urban and western - oriented , was exposed to indian and other eastern art and gained a deeper appreciation of both eastern and western culture , a harmonious combination that is evident in his films .
its message , about the perils of greed , religious fanaticism , and environmental pollution , may be topical , but the film is too static to have total impact . still , there are enough flashes of ray ' s brilliance to make it worthwhile .
just one small example . pather panchali was the first indian film that showed characters actually eating , putting real food in their mouths and chewing !
in a 1982 lecture , he recalled his emotions . the film had “gored” him . “i came out of the theatre with my mind firmly made up . i would become a filmmaker . the prospect of giving up a job didn’t daunt me any more . i would make my film exactly as de sica had made his : working with non - professional actors , using modest resources , and shooting on actual locations . the village which bibhutibhushan had so lovingly described would be a living backdrop to the film , just as the outskirts of rome were for de sica’s film . ”
gradually became his most valued assistant .
the best assistant i ever had
, ray told an interviewer .
satyajit ray’s paternal grandfather , upendrakishore ray was a writer , illustrator , philosopher , publisher , amateur astronomer and a leader of the brahmo samaj , a religious and social movement in nineteenth century bengal . he also set up a printing press by the name of u . ray and sons , which formed a crucial backdrop to satyajit’s life .
but the cunning dr roy found a way . since the title of the half - born film was the song of the road , he gave ray the money from the state’s road development fund . and pather panchali was done . this is possibly one of the most innovative decisions taken by an indian politician , with a gigantic impact that he himself—or ray—could never have imagined .
ray had a heart attack in the early 1980s , and his work was never the same . in 1984 , he made the first film he had ever wanted to make , ghare baire ( the home and the world ) , based on a tagore novel , years before he started working on pather panchali . though visually enchanting , it is a strangely disappointing film . a political novel was turned into what ray described as a “greek tragedy” , a love triangle with a rather unattractive actor playing the woman in the middle .
one of the main attractions of the screenings are the restored prints of ray & apos ; s films . the attempt to restore all of ray & apos ; s works — 28 feature films and seven short subjects and documentaries — began in 1992 shortly after he received an honorary oscar . during the production of the oscar telecast , producers were dismayed to find that there were very few prints or master videos of ray & apos ; s film in the us , and the ones they did locate were incomplete and in poor condition . it transpired that ray had shot all of his films on non - flammable
safety
film based on triacetate , which , when exposed to warm , moist environments as they were in india , could deteriorate dramatically .
the next day , overwhelmed by the experience , he bought 30 blank vhs cassettes so that he could record every film of ray’s as doordarshan showed them . he told us this , with diffidence and humility—after all , these were two bengali journalists arguing , and bengalis are supposed to be terminally intellectual , and ray was bengali , etc . , etc . —and rested his case .
( to be factually accurate , the first bengali novel he wanted to film was tagore’s ghare baire ( the home and the world ) and he even wrote a screenplay for it . his friend harisadhan dasgupta was supposed to direct . negotiations with producers , however , fell through , and years later , ray would say that that was extremely fortunate—he found the script that he had written melodramatic and “very hollywoodish” . ray would finally make ghare baire four decades later , in 1984 . it was a disappointing film , in this author’s opinion . )
the crystal clear images of the newly restored mahanagar and the apu trilogy make the films timeless in their beauty . not surprisingly , mahanagar was chosen for a nationwide release in the uk . tickets for several screenings of the film sold out in august and the film has attracted steady bookings for september as well .
in 1950 , ray’s employers sent him to london for a five - month stint at headquarters . whatever they may have expected from ray when he came back to calcutta , the man who returned was someone who had chosen his destiny .
in 1980 , ray made a sequel to goopy gyne bagha byne , a somewhat political hirak rajar deshe ( kingdom of diamonds ) . the kingdom of the evil diamond king , or hirok raj , is an allusion to india during indira gandhi’s emergency period . [ 45 ] along with his acclaimed short film pikoo ( pikoo’s diary ) and hour - long hindi film , sadgati , this was the culmination of his work in this period .
but ray was unable to raise money from skeptical bengali producers , who distrusted a first - time director with such unconventional ideas . shooting could not begin until late 1952 , using ray’s own money , with the rest eventually coming from a grudging
in 1950 , satyajit went to london in connection with his job . instantly , he became a member of london film club and during his stay there for five months , he saw about a hundred films . he also got acquainted with persons like the british filmmaker , lindsay anderson and film specialists peneloppi huston and gavin lambert . he was highly impressed by the bicycle thief directed by italian vittorio d sica and decided to make a film on bibhutibhushan bandyopadhyay ' s novel pather panchali .
not to have seen the cinema of ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon
, said akira kurosawa , the great master of japanese cinema . a collection of excerpts and quotes by well - known film critics , filmmakers and others . . .
back in calcutta , writing a review of the film in the journal that his film society published , ray wrote : “for a popular medium , the best kind of inspiration should derive from life and have its roots in it . no amount of technical polish can make up for artificiality of theme and dishonesty of treatment . the indian filmmaker must turn to life , to reality . de sica , and not demille , should be his ideal . ”
they ran out of money , and no one was willing to finance the film . meanwhile , ray had quit his job , spent all his savings on the film ( his wife bijoya stood by him while his mother suprabha was extremely sceptical ; widowed at a young age , she attached a lot of value to financial security ) . he even sold his unmatchable collection of music , and cleaned out his uncle subimal ray’s provident fund . but it was still not enough . in the meantime , the girl playing durga had reached puberty and was beginning to look different .
ray met e . b . havell in london , whom he had known as principal of the calcutta school of art , and visited rothenstein ' s house . rothenstein suggested to ray that he make colour reproductions of the ajanta caves and indian architecture , influenced by his preoccupations with the india society . ray was good friends with rathindranath , the son of rabindranath tagore .
ray documents the on - stage movements of the famous bharatnatyam dancer balasaraswati and her off - stage life with her friends and family . avoiding much experimentation in filmmaking , ray lets the dancer do all the ‘talking’ through prolonged shots of her performances .
in college , he was suddenly exposed to the art and craft of the film director , as opposed to the charm of the stars , when he read two books on film theory by the great russian director vsevolod pudovkin , who , along with his contemporary sergei eisenstein , developed the technique of montage—using a series of connected images to express a powerful idea . he also chanced upon an issue of sight & sound , the journal published by the british film institute , and became a subscriber .
between 1965–82 , ray took on projects of increasing variety , ranging from fantasy to science fiction to detective films to historical drama . ray also made considerable formal experimentation during this period . he expressed contemporary issues of indian life , responding to a perceived lack of these issues in his films . the first major film in this period is nayak ( the hero ) , the story of a screen hero traveling in a train and meeting a young , sympathetic female journalist . starring uttam kumar and sharmila tagore , in the twenty - four hours of the journey , the film explores the inner conflict of the apparently highly successful matinée idol . in spite of the film’s receiving a “critics prize” at the berlin festival , it had a generally muted reception .


dracula has risen from the grave is a 1968 british horror film directed by freddie francis for hammer films .

it stars christopher lee as count dracula , with support from rupert davies , veronica carlson , barry andrews , barbara ewing , ewan hooper and michael ripper .

this was the fourth entry in hammer 's dracula series , and the third to feature christopher lee as the titular vampire .

dracula has risen from the grave

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the fifth dracula film by hammer , released in 1970 and following dracula has risen from the grave . it starred christopher lee in his fourth appearance as the count .
dracula has risen from the grave
but the script is on life support as dracula ( christopher lee ) and cast struggle to maintain any dramatic . . .
dracula has risen from the grave will screen saturday , october 30th , as a part of notcoming . com’s film series at 92ytribeca in new york city .
murnau’s “nosferatu” gave way to the atmospheric universal films , which ruled the belfry until hammer upped the ante with gothic films like “horror of dracula” and “dracula has risen from the grave . ”
thanks , hammer fans ! if i hadn ' t blogged on brides of dracula earlier this year , it would have been my first choice for a hammer dracula picture . but i do like dracula has risen from the grave and it has improved significantly with repeat viewings .
dracula has risen from the grave is the fourth dracula film from hammer horror , released in 1968 and set immediately after dracula prince of darkness . the film stars christopher lee in his third appearance as dracula , along with robert davies , veronica carlson , barry andrews , ewan hopper and barbara ewing .
the reception for risen is saturday , january 24th , from 7 - 10 pm .
prof . marty norden traveled to keene , nh , in october to deliver a paper titled
the folly of faithlessness in dracula has risen from the grave
at the annual conference of the northeast popular culture association .
impaled with extreme prejudice : weller discovers dracula in the prologue writhing and screaming from pain from the spike that has been driven through him .
this disc has not yet been reviewed . the following information has been provided by the distributor .
risen from the dead , agents rots moulder and diena skully investigate and infest wherever they find a conspiracy to keep humans from becoming zombie food .
same content , different rating : the explicitly gory dracula has risen from the grave was given a g rating in the u . s . ; this was around the same time the mpaa rating system was established and before the g rating was truly codified as
kids stuff
.
fans thought differently , however , and lapped up dracula has risen from the grave , making it one of the most profitable and successful films in the entire series . director freddie francis replaced terence fisher following that latter worthy’s injury in a car accident , but brought a style to the film which sets it apart , certainly from its successors .
. the other comical poster has a photograph of a woman , who has clearly been bitten by dracula , with two elastoplasts on her throat .
hammer’s third entry proper in their dracula saga came on the back of their queen’s award to industry . james carreras had sold the package of dracula has risen from the grave to american distributors warner - seven arts on the strength of christopher lee appearing in the title role ; no such assurance had been sought from lee , who was appalled at the prospect of another dracula movie , and only conceded when a pay hike was offered .
a masterpiece of style , dracula has risen from the grave makes the most of freddie francis’ adventurous flair as a director and , coupled with arthur grant’s stunning cinematography , manages to create a nightmarish world , beautifully set among the rooftops of fictitious keinenburg . the film has style , substance and above - average acting , making it a truly classic and evergreen hammer horror .
i am a huge dracula fan . i ' ve always loved the christopher lee version of dracula . when i saw the first one horror of dracula i fell in love with it . after that i saw dracula prince of darkness it was even better than the first one ! after prince of darkness i went in order and watched . . . risen from the grave and it was amazing ! . in dracula has risen from the grave it leaves off from prince of darkness when dracula drowns under water . i was amazed how dracula had just risen out of the cold frozen water . a local priest is put under dracula ' s spell and goes bad . dracula hides out in a local bar and preys on the the bar maid zena . zena as well as the priest is put under dracula ' s spell and is soon asked to preform a task for dracula . unfortunately zena fails her task for dracula , and dracula destroyed zena and orders for the priest to burn her in the fire place . the gore and blood is very unrealistic which makes the movie easy to handle . i loved it and i think you will to .
anyone who made fun of the pale attempts at series continuity in the old universal monster movies has to wince at the opening of dracula has risen from the grave . dracula ' s castle has moved to the top of a mountain without the access of any kind of road , and the frozen moat that imprisoned chris lee at the conclusion of dracula prince of darkness is now a stream barely big enough for the actor to lie down in . it was at this point that lee started doing dracula films at the rate of one a year , after swearing not to repeat the career - numbing role .
warner archive confirmed today that it plans to release on blu - ray a four - film box set of classic hammer films later this year . the titles in the box set are : dracula has risen from the grave ( 1968 ) , frankenstein must be destroyed ( 1969 ) , the mummy ( 1959 ) , and . . .
dracula has risen from the grave is the fourth movie in hammer horror ' s dracula series , preceded by ( 1958 ) , the brides of dracula ( 1960 ) ( 1960 ) , and dracula : prince of darkness ( 1966 ) ( 1966 ) and followed by taste the blood of dracula ( 1970 ) ( 1970 ) , scars of dracula ( 1970 ) ( 1970 ) , dracula a . d . 1972 ( 1972 ) ( 1972 ) , and the satanic rites of dracula ( 1973 ) ( 1973 ) . all of hammer ' s dracula movies are based on the character created by irish novelist bram stoker in his 1897 novel dracula . the screenplay for dracula : prince of darkness was written by british screenwriter anthony hinds .
the title risen is derived from the rising souls in golem ' s quests or the rising of evil , such as zombies or spells , in voodoo .
warners ' dvd of dracula has risen from the grave beautifully reproduces the original theatrical experience . the almost perfect image has deep colors and no damage in sight . it even starts with the original warners - 7 arts logo . technically shot at 1 : 66 , the imagery was all composed to be shown at much wider ratios , and the 1 : 78 16 : 9 ar chosen here frames the titles well and never seems too tight .
i can happily say that this is not as bad as the satanic rites of dracula , but it’s also not a particularly great entry in the hammer dracula series , aside from a few exceptional moments and a certain so - bad - it’s - good flair . lee is on screen for about fifteen minutes , probably less , something that would plague the rest of the series from here on out . attempting to beat themselves at the continuity game yet again , this picks up where dracula has risen from the grave let off . the less said about that , the better .
lee objected to the inventive scene of the unsuccessful staking , but later conceded that “the audience at the time thought it was stunning” . this , along with the fact that no vampires are actively turned to spread the malady , and director francis’ use of amber filters to create an evilly - lit world for dracula to inhabit , all help to set dracula has risen from the grave apart from its stablemates . interestingly too , no action takes place inside the castle walls , as the count is effectively barred from entering by the cross and ceremony performed by muller .
this hammer film , the fourth in the dracula series ( though dracula wasn ' t in the second , the outstanding ' brides of dracula ' ) has always been one of the weaker ones for me , . . .
has been mastered with an average bitrate of 29 . 94 mbps , which far exceeds the historical whv approach . the compression has been skillfully performed .
johnny alucard raises count dracula from the dead in london in 1972 . the count goes after the descendants of van helsing .
drumheller is heavily quoted in risen ’s book in chapter 5 , “skeptics and zealots . ”
cb droege deep silver , publisher of the critically - acclaimed pc title risen , has today announced that they will be bringing the game to the xbox 360 in february of this year .
this third christopher lee ' dracula ' film from hammer studios and the fourth in the dracula series starts to wear a little thin . it ' s always . . .
thematically , dracula has risen from the grave dabbles with intolerance and christian discovery . suitor paul ( barry andrews , introduced bare - chested and looking almost identical to roger daltrey of the who ) is a worthy match for sweet maria , who lives by the charity of her uncle , the monsignor . but when he admits he ' s an atheist , he ' s ordered out of the house . thus intolearance forces young lovers to sneak around in shadows where demons like dracula hide out .
dracula has risen from the grave [ dvd ] [ 1968 ] : urltoken michael ripper , rupert davies , veronica carlson , barbara ewing , christopher cunningham , norman bacon , george a . cooper , ewan hooper , marion mathie , barry andrews , john d . collins , christopher lee , arthur grant , freddie francis , spencer reeve , aida young , bram stoker , anthony hinds : dvd & blu - ray
it was that period of study , observation and note - taking that led , in 1980 , to the novel risen from the ground , where the way of narrating which characterises my novels was born .
set in and around the mitteleurope town of keinenburg , dracula has risen from the grave breaks with many of the traditional story elements thanks to john elder’s innovative screenplay . monsignor ernst muller ( rupert davies ) is dismayed to find the local priest ( ewan hooper ) having said mass to an empty church due to the superstitious parishioners refusing to enter the building ; the hapless peasants are still spooked when the shadow of dracula’s ( christopher lee ) castle touches their church of an evening , despite the vampire having been destroyed in the icy waters near his home a year earlier .
when the niece of a prominent clergyman becomes dracula ' s victim , the monsignor vows to put a stop to dracula ' s deadly ways . resurrected from an icy river tomb , count dracula ( christopher lee ) returns with a lust for life and blood . the most religiously - themed of the dracula movies , this one has dracula battling with a monsignor whose niece is the vampire ' s intended . . . victim , that is .
when castle dracula is exorcised by the monsignor , it accidentally brings the count back from the dead . dracula follows the monsignor back to his hometown , preying on the holy man ' s beautiful niece and her friends .
when castle dracula is exorcised by the monsignor , it accidentally brings the count back from the dead . dracula follows the monsignor back to his hometown , preying on the holy man ' s . . . see more »
such is the indefatigable charm of christopher lee in his most famous role . this charm , however , is often incongruous within the subtext of a particular film . dracula has risen from the grave , in particular , is so abundant with shocks of gooey violence , casual misogyny , and bosomy women that dracula’s presence within this setting imbues it with elegance and sophistication . otherwise it’d be a growling party all the time with no one to temper the flames of lust , which all of the young and beautiful central characters seem unable to tactfully contain .
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the justice department filing calls risen
an eyewitness
to the alleged crimes and a
critical
figure to the government ' s case who can provide information that it can ' t get from anyone else .
rick , i just wanted you to know that i just finished watching dracula has risen from the grave . your review was so good , i decided i had to watch it again . i didn ' t care much for paul either , rick . i think maria should have chosen to be
the bride of dracula .
christoper lee looked more charming than barry . sark , my husband agrees with you that veronica carlson is a beautiful woman . enjoyed the movie and thanks for the review to remind to watch again , rick .
the conclusion finds lee in his first impalement gag , struggling with the giant crucifix rammed through him like francis lederer in the return of dracula . for the first time , he actually looks silly , squirming and gesticulating wildly . i saw dracula has risen from the grave at least twice in 1969 with audiences that really wanted to like it - they cheered at every lee appearance , especially when his stunt double does that nice leap off a balcony . but they sat in a stupor through most of the picture waiting for interesting things to happen , and by the finale had no patience left .
now that his revenge is
complete
, dracula abducts maria and takes her to his castle . he forces her to remove the cross from the door . meanwhile , paul follows on horseback , arriving just as maria tosses the cross over the cliff . dracula tries to toss paul over the cliff , too , but dracula himself falls , impaling himself on the cross . paul and maria embrace . the priest , apparently released from his tie to dracula , recites the pater noster . in the final scene , paul looks down to see that the dracula ' body has all but disappeared , and he makes the sign of the cross .
dracula goes after the niece of the monsignor who destroyed . . . more >
it ' s still a very solid hammer dracula film , but the slow , downward spiral away from quality would continue with the next entry in the series . . .
mook face turn : the priest regains his faith at the end when dracula gets impaled on the cross and recites the lord ' s prayer to finish off dracula .
this was the very first movie to receive a rating from the mpaa in 1968 . see more »
he is risen is best for ages 9 and up , particularly those who have an understanding of what
crucifixion
means .
when the niece of a prominent clergyman becomes dracula ' s victim , the monsignor vows to put a stop to dracula ' s deadly ways .
and as many others have discussed , this film carries a g rating from the mpaa .
this was a gift . however , since my friend loves christopher lee as dracula , and has many of the movies in the series , i am sure she will love it .
31 days of halloween : there ' s no escape from polan . . .
christopher lee did return as dracula in a french comedy motion picture , dracula and son ( 1976 ) , a . k . a . dracula : father and son . it is not a hammer film . christopher lee stars in it and dubbed his own voice . the french version and usa version are different . the usa version has many scenes cut from the film replacing them with with different gags .
if you dig hammer movies , then
dracula has risen from the grave
is one you will relish ! it ' s got all the things that make hammer films so wonderful - the sets , the music , a pretty nasty and misogynistic dracula , a love story , and two beautiful lead ladies . and of course , it plays out much more like a scary fairy tale than a straight - out horror film . stylish shots and classy photography coupled with hammer ' s just - this - side - of - storybook red blood makes for a very creepy and at the same time beautiful viewing experience . i think each of hammers ' dracula films are great ( minus the abysmal but nicely titled
satanic rites of dracula
) but this one sits rightfully at the top of them all .
one year has passed since dracula was defeated in dracula : prince of darkness . a monsignor visits the village that was once terrorized by dracula , only to discover that the villagers still live in fear of the vampire . the local priest has lost his faith and the villagers don ' t attend the church for mass because “the shadow of his castle touches it” . in order to end their fear of the long since gone vampire , the monsignor climbs to castle dracula to perform an exorcism . in the process of the exorcism the priest , who climbed part of the way with the monsignor , falls and hits his head and at the same time cracks the ice which dracula lays frozen in . unbeknown to the monsignor , who is still conducting the exorcism , blood from the priest ' s head spills into dracula ' s lips and re - awakens him . dracula wastes no time in hypnotizing the priest into being his servant , and begins his reign of terror once again ( obviously ) .
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dracula orders the maid zena to bring him maria . she reacts with jealousy that the count might desire someone else and completely misses the point of his revenge . maria is coerced down to the hidden alcove but dracula’s feeding is interrupted by the boyfriend paul . zena loses much favor with the count and has to beg for more “attention” from his excellence . dracula simply makes her a vampire and orders her body thrown into a fire by the priest . the fires of eternal damnation ?
this was the fourth of the hammer dracula films , and it ' s a bore .
you exclamation : the monsignor says this when his pursuit of dracula is interrupted by dracula ' s mook—the priest . the priest then whacks him over the head with a stone tablet .
the advertising campaign in america was decidedly tongue - in - cheek ; the main poster image did not depict the vampire , but rather one of his busty victims , with two pink ( and anachronistic ) band - aids on her neck , followed by the tagline ,
dracula has risen from the grave ( obviously ) .
warner bros . - seven arts also played up the humorous and somewhat campy ad campaign for their television ads (
when we last saw him . . . dracula was dead with a stake driven through his heart . . . . but you just can ' t keep a good man down
) , and made sure to mention the
g
rating . as a result
what does dracula have to do with brides of dracula ? absolutely nothing . aside from a few references to the old boy ( in the narrated opening it is made clear that dracula is dead , but his disciples remain ) , he , and his brides , are absent from this film . i have no idea why hammer chose this title , other than an attempt to connect it to the first dracula film . despite that , this is one of the greatest in the hammer canon . the scenery is beautiful , the well - constructed plot has globs of gothic perversity , the ladies are as lovely as ever and peter cushing is at the top of his game .
it’s funny . the dracula franchise is probably what hammer film productions is best remembered for today , but those movies are consistently among the studio’s weakest products . the worst of the bunch are among the few truly terrible hammer films i’ve seen , and even the best of them wouldn’t make it into my personal top ten . for the most part , they’re just sort of okay , competent in an undistinguished manner , but representing ever more plainly as the years wore on all the ways that hammer wasn’t adapting to changing times . dracula has risen from the grave may be the okayest of them all . in what would turn out to be the most transformative year in horror movie history since probably 1931 , it stands fast in the center of the genre’s comfort zone , offering a perfectly acceptable rendition of little you haven’t seen before .
the best thing about dracula has risen from the grave is the introduction of the absolutely gorgeous veronica carlson . she went on to star in a couple of hammer frankenstein films after this , but i don’t know why they didn’t use her more . other than that , it’s business as usual . thankfully , lee is around more in this film and actually has dialogue . nothing can make up for the absence of cushing , though davies replaces him as best he is able as a holy man , rather than a scientist . this film somehow seems brighter and more visually stunning than earlier efforts in the series , though that could be because of the lovely rooftop set with veronica carlson prancing around on it . there is also more sexual innuendo and dangerously plunging cleavage lines .
notice any issues ? such as the reflection ? oh well , just another bit of lore previously followed thrown out the window . the monsignor leaves the town , his job finished , or so he thinks . dracula has indeed risen from the grave , and now his mortal assistant is one of the cloth . now what could that be implying ? here we have yet another interesting thematic concept in a hammer sequel that then is completely disregarded . the priest simply does what every other dracula servant does : the master’s bidding like a walking robot . doesn’t anybody find these people a bit strange ? if you were to stagger around mumbling only monosyllables people would think you’re crazy . any notion of this subplot being some kind of metaphor of the church acting as a false prophet is completely ignored .
the theme of religion com - bating the evil of vampirism is not an uncommon one , but rarely has it received such a full treatment . the three men who combine to destroy dracula run the gamut from believer to atheist . the monsignor is a man with great faith in god . the priest is a believer who has lost his way . paul , the young man engaged to the monsignor’s niece , fancies himself an intellectual who questions the existence of god . his rejection of religion plays a pivotal role in a scene where he faces dracula , but is unable to destroy him .
you have failed me : zena is turned into one of dracula ' s mooks after he bites her . she ' s given orders to kidnap maria , but fails to do so . dracula promptly slays her for her failure and has the priest burn her body .
clap your hands if you believe : why the first attempt to stake dracula fails .
country united states format cd release date 2002 upn 7 - 3857 - 21137 - 2 - 8 also contains music from : dracula dracula : prince of darkness scars of dracula taste the blood of dracula frankenstein created woman devil rides out , the kiss of the vampire , the one million years b . c . creatures the world forgot curse of the mummy ' s tomb , the she abominable snowman , the quatermass 2 hands of the ripper vampire circus curse of the werewolf , the this label refers to the following compilation album : hammer - the studio that dripped blood !
fortunately better than i remember it being , the satanic rites of dracula is the eighth film in the series and the last to star lee as dracula . the wonderful cushing also returns , along with much of the cast of dracula a . d . 1972 , to which this is a loose sequel .
when dracula
seduces
zena , he pulls at the ribbon fastening her cloak . this causes her to turn to face him , but does not conspicuously loosen her cloak . however , the camera then jumps to another angle ( roughly , dracula ' s pov ) . the editing suggests direct continuity , but zena ' s cloak has , seemingly instantaneously , slipped off from her left shoulder .
check out the warner dvd . this deserves something a lot fancier , which we’ll never get on region one as long as warner has the rights .
this is my favorite dracula film , hammer or non - hammer - i really love the cast and i think dracula is especially mean and misogynistic in this one .
holy burns evil : crosses figure in heavily in dracula ' s defeat in the climax .
after an arduous trek through the mountains , the monsignor completes his mission . unfortunately , the priest , who has lagged behind his elder , inadvertently revives dracula . unable to resist the powerful vampire , the priest becomes dracula’s disciple . needless to say , dracula is not pleased to find a huge cross barring the door to his estate ( “who’s done this thing ? ” he demands ) . forcing the priest to assist him , the vampire count plots his bloody revenge against the monsignor .
this mix of sci - fi , horror and espionage penned by doctor who scribe don houghton would probably have been successful if dracula and van helsing hadn’t been included , seemingly as an afterthought . this is not helped by the fact that dracula has minimal screen time , probably less than 15 minutes . at least he has dialogue in this one . though it is great to see lee and cushing together again , they feel out of place in an a plot that belongs to either the avengers , james bond or fu manchu . the bleak apocalyptic theme moves away from the gothic elements of most of the series and far , far away from the fun , campy romp of dracula a . d . , which will likely please the many viewers that hated that film .
country great britain format cd release date 9 - apr - 2002 upn 7 - 3857 - 20357 - 2 - 3 2 cd - set . also contains music from : dracula dracula : prince of darkness scars of dracula taste the blood of dracula frankenstein created woman devil rides out , the kiss of the vampire , the one million years b . c . creatures the world forgot curse of the mummy ' s tomb , the she abominable snowman , the quatermass 2 hands of the ripper vampire circus curse of the werewolf , the this label refers to the following compilation album : hammer - the studio that dripped blood !
vampire hunter van helsing returns to transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker baron meinster , who has designs on beautiful young schoolteacher marianne .
was both successful and highly profitable , but over time it has suffered in comparison to the other films in hammer ' s dracula series . for volume 2 of warner ' s hammer collection , here ' s hoping we get the 1958
the extreme improbability of the count’s resurrection cannot be put into words . this is our first glimpse of dracula :
though there are several cheap versions of satanic rites that should be avoided , anchor bay presents a nice region 1 disc as part of their hammer horror series . this includes trailers and a documentary , dracula and the undead , narrated by hammer - regular oliver reed . avoid any prints under the stupid u . s . title , count dracula and his vampire brides , which has several minutes shaved from its running time .
rick , this is one of my favorite vampire movies . i love the hammer movies with christopher lee playing the dracula . i think he plays a chillingly sexy dracula . i love the beginning of this movie when the priest cuts his head and cracks the ice allowing his blood to seep through the crack to resurect the evil vampire . i bet that pleased dracula to have blood from a priest . i also like the ending of this movie , but don ' t want to give it away . i agree it is not quite as good as horrow of dracula nor brides of dracula , but it is my third favorite in the hammer vampire films .
best horror of drac sequel , with lee ( i . e . dracula )
transhuman treachery : after lucy is turned , she is glad to serve dracula .
dracula : [ to maria ] now my revenge is complete . see more »
the ending is relatively well constructed . paul has already had to assume the duties of the lover attempting to kill a vampire who has taken his woman . in one controversial but memorable scene ( the one scene that makes this movie really worth anything ) he actually stakes dracula , but being an atheist is unable to perform the prayer that would complete the ritual . so dracula is then able to rip out the stake in his heart . so then what does one do ? trail the girl and vampire back to the castle and fight again ! dracula is improbably staked by falling on the monsignor’s cross and the priest is then miraculously able to say the prayer to end the count’s evil . the end credits follow about a minute later .
determined to set matters straight , muller ascends the mountain pathways to the castle , priest in tow , and performs an exorcism , sealing the door with a huge ornate gold cross . the terrified priest has not accompanied him all the way to the top , however , and stumbles during a violent storm , cutting his head . he lands on a frozen river , cracking the ice and allowing the blood from his wound to drip onto dracula’s lips below , thus reviving the vampire .
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jonathan harker begets the ire of count dracula after he accepts a job at the vampire ' s castle under false pretenses .
my second time around with has risen was more enjoyable than the first many years ago . this is only because the story didn’t seem so tedious as before . the characters are better written than the previous film and seem more like fleshed out versions of real people instead of caricatures . but they so tediously follow a story formula that all of that development is useless . you more and more frequently spend most of your viewing with these hammer sequels having to restrain yourself from shouting “get a bloomin’ move on ! ”
prof . alena vasilyeva traveled to washington , dc to participate in the mid - year board meeting of the international communication association from january 15 - 17 .
dracula then enters maria’s bedroom where we are treated to the most explicit scene thus far in the hammer series . dracula approaches maria and we then see her neck approaching in close up from his point of view . he almost lovingly prepares the area of the skin for his bite and we cut away to maria’s hand clutching a china doll only to let go in satisfaction .
, dracula was entombed in the icy waters near his castle outside the german town of karlsbad . which brings us to 1968 and
abandoned area : courtley ' s planned resurrection of dracula takes place in an abandoned church .
brainwashed : the priest , put under the mental control of dracula . justified as the priest ' s will is weakened by his crisis of faith .
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a young man , paul carlson , is on a trip and spends the night at count dracula ' s castle . needless to say , he is murdered . after some time has passed , the young man ' s brother simon comes to . . . see full summary »
everyone loves blondes : both the student paul and dracula prefer blonde maria , much to zena ' s annoyance .
dramatic thunder : thunder rolls in the background as dracula ' s blood starts to take shape in a goblet .
prof . alena vasilyeva traveled to san diego to participate in the mid - year board meeting of the international communication association from january 13 - 15 , 2017 .
a year has passed since the freezing of dracula ( christopher lee ) under the ice in the river that flows past his castle . because the villagers still fear even the shadow of the castle , monsignor ernst mueller ( rupert davies ) and the village priest ( ewan hooper ) decide to exorcise the castle and prove to the villagers that the evil is gone . while the monsignor seals the castle door with a large cross , the priest accidentally falls on a rock and hits his head , his blood flowing onto the ice under which dracula is encased , resurrecting him . angered by mueller ' s desecration of his castle , dracula vows revenge on both mueller and his niece maria ( veronica carlson ) .
christopher lee reprises ' his role . as dracula . who plans his revenge on the priest who desecrate . . his castle this has to be one of his finest performance s as dracula i did make comment . saying it was region a only . another reviewer corrected me on this and i am pleased to say it will play on uk blue ray players😊
dracula . that scene is a prologue , taking place a year before the rest of the movie , during the time that dracula was active during dracula : prince of darkness . the monsignor says as much himself as he ' s driving his cart toward carlsbad .
a year has passed since dracula , perpetrator of these obscene evils , was destroyed .
and then again at the inn , he says to the village priest ,
i know that your church was once vilely desecrated , but the perpetrator of that ghastly deed was destroyed some 12 months ago . was he not sent to his doom in the waters of your mountain and was he not , therefore , destroyed forever ?
van helsing arrives in time to figure out why young girls in the village are dropping like flies . by the time he links the deaths to the baron meinster , the baron has several undead brides and has proposed to the still living marianne . van helsing must convince her of the true nature of her gentlemen love before it is too late . on the way , he kicks some serious ass and somehow remains 100 % immune to any kind of feminine wiles .
prof . mari castañeda traveled to new york city to participate in the nyu screening of latinos beyond reel , a documentary from the media education foundation , march 5 .
was sung by everyone on the set and , slowly , mr . lee began to rise from his coffin , ' blood ' dripping from his hands and chest , and he sank the stake into the center of the cake ! he hissed , his fangs glinting in the light of the candles . ' suck off ' ! everyone roared before breaking into uncontrollable laughter .
tears of blood : bloody tears run down on dracula ' s face as he writhes in pain in the prologue .
the fourth entry in hammer’s dracula series is one of the studio’s best films , even without the presence of peter cushing’s dynamic van helsing . it opens with a terrific prologue featuring a church bell that doesn’t ring and a dead girl with two puncture marks on her neck . to say more would spoil the effect . however , the story proper begins when a visiting monsignor discovers that a village in his district remains in the “shadow of evil”—even though count dracula has been destroyed . determined to set things right again , the monsignor convinces the frightened village priest to accompany him to dracula’s castle to perform an exorcism .
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from what i understand , the film got a g rating by being cut to ribbons for its us theatrical release . the british version was rated x ( 18 ) .
was also slightly larger than previous entries ; the funding came from a two - picture distribution deal with warner bros . - seven arts in america . ( the other film in the arrangement was
a year passes and we now follow a monsignor who happens to stop in the town to check up on its local church . he finds the church empty on a sunday and the priest in the local bar . the entire town has become disillusioned with the church after their dealings with count dracula . this puts the monsignor into a rage and so he takes the priest to go and rid the old castle of evil spirits once and for all .
when his castle is exorcised , dracula plots his revenge against the monsignor who performed the rites by attempting to make the holy man ' s young niece his bride .
when his castle is exorcised , dracula plots his revenge against the monsignor who performed the rites by attempting to make the holy man ' s young neice his bride .
other than a trailer ( 480i ; 1 . 78 : 1 , enhanced ; 2 : 29 ) , the disc has no extras . warner ' s 2004 dvd was similarly featureless .
shovel strike : alice , under dracula ' s control , kills her father by whacking him in the head with a shovel .
. francis ' eye provided flair to an uninspired script by anthony hinds ( writing under the name john elder ) that underutilizes both the character of dracula and the gifts of the actor playing him .
when his castle is exorcised , dracula plots his revenge against the monsignor who performed the rites by attempting to make the holy man ' s young niece his bride . written by
roof hopping : maria does this routinely when coming to see paul , because her uncle the monsignor disapproves . later the monsignor does this to pursue dracula .
the terrified priest follows only partway up the mountain and the monsignor continues alone . as the monsignor exorcises the castle , attaching a large metal cross to its gate , a thunderstorm occurs . the priest flees , stumbles , and is knocked unconscious when his head strikes a rock . the blood from the wound on his head trickles into a frozen stream , then through a crack in the ice onto the lips of the body of count dracula  bringing him to life . the monsignor returns to the village , reassures the villagers , and returns to his home city of kleinenberg .
a
wild end
to the most horrific dracula of them all . christopher lee . and one of his best : - )
prof . sut jhally received an honorary doctor of fine arts degree from simon fraser university in burnaby , british columbia , on oct . 8 .
the only extra is a trailer that isn ' t as campy as the original american ad campaigns that made dracula seem a little bit like batman . the unusual cover art is from english originals - our domestic release ( held up a few months to go out with frankenstein must be destroyed ) used a simplified graphic approach .
woman scorned : alice immediately turns on dracula when he tells her she is of no more use to him .
baron frankenstein escapes from the guillotine and goes to germany . there , he names himself dr . stein and plans to restart his experiments by using parts of dead bodies .
when the village priest runs away from the castle , he falls over and down a slope . when he hits the ground , you see blood on his forehead which subsequently disappears and reappears between shots . see more »
unfortunately , this isn ' t the end . the newly - revived dracula is angered at the cross barring entry into his castle and vows revenge . putting the priest under his control , dracula embarks to kleinenberg for revenge , choosing to target the monsignor ' s niece , maria ( veronica carlson ) . it ultimately falls to maria ' s love interest , a studious young man and atheist named paul ( barry andrews ) to save maria and stop dracula .
graduate student wendy pringle has been competitively chosen to participate in the 2016 princeton - weimar summer school for media studies . she will be studying with a small group of scholars at princeton university this summer .
great gothic hammer horror . one of the better dracula sequels and one of director freddie francis ' best . it has a lot of the elements you expect and appreciate from hammer : solid actors , great sets , quality direction , beautiful and vivacious young women . the plot is relatively simple : dracula wants revenge and pretty blonde veronica carlson but her monsignor uncle and loser boyfriend have a thing or two to say about that . there ' s also some interesting additions to the mythology where belief vs atheism is concerned . it all makes for a very entertaining sequel full of many familiar and proved effective hammer staples , with several new ones as well .
as well as zena when the priest goes to put the lid on dracula ' s coffin and find her body ( oddly vamped but dead ) laying under it .
christopher lee is featured in the first of his “stand in a dark corner and occasionally bite someone” performances . you trudge along watching this film merely to pass the time until he appears . then you go and get all excited to watch the count in action…which doesn’t happen because he goes away - again . why can’t these films actually be about dracula ? it’s not as if they aren’t named after him . lee has pointed out over the years that the scripts were increasingly written without dracula actually in them . it was only at the last minute before shooting that they would actually write in the
not rating the film , but amazons video service is really poor . rented this from amazon video . firstly the soundtrack and film were out of synch so that spoiled it completely , like . . .
not my favorite of the hammer dracula series , but not anywhere near unworthy . i love how they play with the landscape , the colors and the matte paintings as well as the other opticals . storywise , it ' s pretty boring most of the way through .
hammer had originally intended for terence fisher to continue his directing duties on the new film , but he was recovering from a broken leg caused when a motorbike struck him as he was crossing the street . his replacement was freddie francis , a multiple oscar - winning cinematographer , who had earlier helmed another hammer horror film from a different fisher - dominated series ,
one of the reasons for the continued popularity of the figures of dr . jekyll and his sinister companion is their status as what joyce carol oates has called “mythopoetic figures [ of ] autonomous creation , ” which is a lovely way of saying that those who have never read stevenson’s novella , who have never seen a stage play of the tale , who have never seen a film adaptation of the story still know the names jekyll and hyde and what they signify . the mythical allegory of a good man and his evil alter - ego have , over the course of a long century , entered the public consciousness and the public discourse and have thus become divorced , like frankenstein’s monster and count dracula , from their original narrative context . from the selig polyscope company’s first film adaptation in 1908 to jerry lewis’ 1963 the nutty professor and beyond , the figures of jekyll and hyde have become emblems of the perceived dual nature of humanity and the constant internal and psychological struggle between good and evil .
probably one of the most underrated in the hammer dracula saga . it has many of the usual tropes , of course , but i found myself caring for the characters . interesting studies of the cowardly priest and the way he and the bar lady functioned as servants of the count . it builds to an exciting climax . it is one that i never ever saw as a child , only heard mentioned on those cards you could collect . glad i finally saw it today . i wasn ' t disappointed .
evil old folks : the three pompous , hypocritical ( and in harwood ' s case abusive ) fathers . dracula seems almost gallant in comparison .
seeking to exorcise dracula ' s castle , msgr . muller ( rupert davies ) bars the door with a cross but the local priest ( ewan hooper ) inadvertently revives the frozen count ( christopher lee ) from his interment in a frozen creek . with the priest now his lackey , dracula comes to muller ' s town and preys first upon barmaid zena ( barbara ewing ) before setting his sights on his real prize , muller ' s niece maria ( veronica carlson ) . muller might have an aide in maria ' s boyfriend paul ( barry andrews ) , but dracula acts too quickly for either of them .
prof . erica scharrer traveled to washington , dc to participate in the annual board meeting of the international communication association from january 16 - 18 and returned to the dc area to engage as a panel reviewer at the national science foundation february 4 - 6 .
it boggles the mind that dracula scriptwriters continued to throw in loyal servants that appear out of nowhere in each new film later in the series . it’s also particularly amusing that hammer made this script once in stuffy , victorian england with a bunch of boring male protagonists , failed , changed a few elements and tried again with dracula a . d . 1972 . surprisingly , it works a lot better in the swingin’ seventies and has a major element that this film lacks : the wondrous , long overdue return of cushing as van helsing .