The title of Satyajit Ray’s outstanding 1963 drama The Big City (Criterion, $34.99 Blu-ray, $23.48 DVD) is almost a misnomer. It contains few shots of metropolitan expanse but, rather, is comprised almost entirely of close-ups and medium shots of a single family in everyday peril — which in turn could be a microcosm for any number of families, in India or anywhere else, in the … [Read more...]