Time Within Time
Andrey Tarkovsky

Rs. 375.00  £ 12.95  $ 19.95
ISBN 8170462606

Time Within Time, both diary and notebook, covers the years from 1970 until
his death. Intimate, intense and deeply personal, it answers many of the
questions which his admirers would like to ask. There are reflections on
Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Hesse, Mann; quotations from Seneca, the Desert Fathers, Henry Thoreau, Nabokov; plans for films and screen-plays; lists and letters. He writes of his family, in particular of his poet father, Arseniy Tarkovsky, whose poems are part of his films; of his delight in his wooden house in the countryside, of his joy in his wife and his little son. Haunting dreams are recorded in detail. He speaks of the state of society, the future of art; there are harsh--often funn– remarks about the bureaucrats in charge of the Soviet cultural scene in general and cinema in particular (he gives the text of his letter supporting Paradzhanov when the latter was arrested). He notes significant world events and purely personal dramas along with fascinating background details of the making of his films.

Also included in this volume are the plans and notes for his stage version of
Hamlet, a detailed proposal for a two-part film of Dostoevsky's The Idiot; and a glimpse of the more public Tarkovsky answering questions put to him by
interviewers and an interested audience.

Montage
life. politics. cinema.
Mrinal Sen

Rs 1200   £ 40.00  $ 70.00
ISBN 81 7046 164 2

'Even when I go outside my time, I cannot go outside history . . . I have seen history as a continuous, growing phenomenon, marching almost imperceptibly into the character of our own time. Above everything else, I am committed to my own time.'

Veteran filmmaker Mrinal Sen has always seen his life and work as part of the social and political fabric of his time. As he has continued to experiment with cinema over the decades, evolving his own quest in response to the changing times, he has also maintained an acute social critique, which shows in his films, writings and interviews. The enfant terrible of Indian cinema in the 60s and 70s, he is known for his subtle, nuanced films, which capture a moment of truth, in the ordinary lives of ordinary people.

This collection encapsulates close to half a century of filmmaking. It includes original writings - memoirs, letters, musings on politics, literature, theatre and cinema; critiques of Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Chaplin and a host of other international film-makers, especially those from Latin America; and intensive interviews with scholars, critics and filmmakers such as Samik Banerjee, Swapan Mullic and Reinhard Hauff. In juxtaposition with intimate photographs of the artist at work and stills from his movies, these form a rare montage of the filmmaker and the man, mapping an unusual creative landscape which offers valuable insights into his films. There is also a complete filmography encompassing his features, telefilms and documentaries.

Review

Over The Years
Mrinal Sen / Samik Bandyopadhyay

Rs 100.00   £ 9.95  $ 14.95
ISBN 8170462428

‘In these days of wanton killing and devastation, if I can say something about human compassion, then that perhaps is the only way to combat the horrors we are being forced to live through and live with . . .’

In this remarkably candid interview with his close friend, scholar and critic Samik Bandyopadhyay, Mrinal Sen reminisces about a long and eventful life in cinema, weaving into it a rich matrix of socio-political, literary and cultural movements that have proved to be of lasting influence in his art. Internationally and nationally renowned personalities from the worlds of cinema, theatre, literature and politics throng these pages, recreating the vibrant times that both Sen and Bandyopadhyay have lived through.