1328 Days and Nights in the Forest

[domino harvey]

One of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements begins with the deceptively easy grace of a buddy comedy—only to give way to darker moral shading. Seeking a weekend escape from the city, four friends from Kolkata embark on a driving trip to the countryside, where their urban entitlement and prejudices are gradually exposed. Among these young bachelors is the overconfident Ashim (Soumitra Chatterjee), who finds his self-assurance shaken by Aparna (the radiant Sharmila Tagore), an enigmatic young woman whose cool intellect conceals turbulent emotional depths. Filmed luminously amid the sound-dappled splendor of the woodlands of India’s Palamu region, Days and Nights in the Forest deconstructs the masculine ego and India’s fraught class divisions with elegant complexity.

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration—undertaken by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project at L’Immagine Ritrovata in collaboration with Film Heritage Foundation, Janus Films, and the Criterion Collection—with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
Introduction by filmmaker Wes Anderson
Making-of program featuring new and archival interviews with director Satyajit Ray, actors Sharmila Tagore and Rabi Ghosh, and cinematographer Soumendu Roy
Conversation about Ray and the film’s restoration featuring Anderson, Tagore, and Film Heritage Foundation founder Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by film critic Devika Girish

[Mr.DarjeelingLimited]

Masterpiece of a film. In 4K too!

[Drucker]

Saw the trailer at Film Forum and it looked really great. It's also been held over there for what feels like two months at this point.

[Beloved Aunt]

I think all of Criterion's other Ray releases have a scholarly on-disc feature, or at least almost all? This one, one of his biggest titles, does not. So that sucks!

[Lowry_Sam]

Maybe when they get around to releasing the complete Ray box, they'll include all the docs, interviews etc. on blu-rays, with all the films on UHD.

[zedz]

Fantastic film, seen once on a super-faded 16mm print more than thirty years ago. I can't wait to see it again.