Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

It was Kolkata, India, in the 1950s. A man was working in advertising as a commercial artist. While illustrating a novel by a new author, the man recognized its powerful visual potential and felt ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the American Cinematheque are celebrating the Academy Film Archive’s restoration of 19 films directed by the seminal Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray ...

Cineastes could be forgiven thinking that the centenary of Satyajit Ray’s birth would bring a cascade of this important Indian filmmaker’s movies to DVD and Blu-ray. But that hasn’t happened, ...

DHAKA (IANS)- In a concerning development reflecting growing social intolerance in Bangladesh, the ancestral home of iconic filmmaker Satyajit Ray in Mymensingh is being demolished to make way for a ...

A small alien creature crash lands on Earth before striking up a rapport with a boy. Sound familiar? Two decades before ET was released, Indian director Satyajit Ray wrote a script for a film that ...

To mark the centenary of legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray's birth, Bangladeshi director Proshoon Rahmaan created the tribute film "Dear Satyajit". The film has been screened across several ...

Ananth Narayan Mahadevan’s Busan International Film Festival selection “The Storyteller,” based on a short story by Oscar-winning Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, isn’t “just another homage” to the late ...

To celebrate the restoration of Ray's classic 'Days and Nights in the Forest,' Anderson sat down with legendary Indian actress Sharmila Tagore and film conservationist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur to ...

On May 2, the birth anniversary of legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray, Bollywood director Sujoy Ghosh shared a touching story on X (formerly Twitter) about his first-ever rejection. It is the one that ...

Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players), released in 1977, is the legendary Satyajit Ray’s first and only full-length Hindi film. Adapted from Munshi Premchand’s short story, it is a richly layered ...

The authorities yesterday halted the demolition of a century-old house in Mymensingh city following public outcry. The demolition was stopped on instructions from the DC, Mymensingh District ...