Pather Panchali ("The Unvanquished", 1956), the second film of the Apu trilogy. Satyajit Ray, working as a graphic designer for Signet Press, created the illustrations for a new abridged edition of the book in 1944. At that time, Ray read the unabridged novel; Signet's owner D. K. Gupta told Ray that the abridged version would make a great film. The idea appealed to Ray, and around 1946–47, when he considered making a film, he turned to "Pather Panchali" because of certain qualities that "made it a great book: its humanism, its lyricism, and its ring of truth". The author's widow permitted Ray
Anthony Wall (film-maker) a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures in 20th and 21st centuries, from Slim Gaillard to Amy Winehouse, from Edward Said to Eric Hobsbawm and from Jean Genet to V S Naipaul. Anthony Wall grew up in Hackney, East London. He attended a Catholic grammar school before studying English at King's College, Cambridge. Wall has personally been awarded three Bafta awards, three Royal Television Society awards, an Emmy, the Prix Italia, and the Special Medallion of the Telluride Film Festival. Anthony Wall (film-maker) Anthony Wall is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose lifelong contribution to cinema has been honoured