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Final Merchant Ivory flick is premiered -
20 March 2006
The White Countess, the final complete film to come from the legendary partnership of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory has been premiered at London's Curzon Mayfair cinema. - -Staring Ralph Fiennes (The Constant Gardener, The English Patient, Schindler's List) and Nat
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Final Merchant Ivory picture to be released -
16 December 2005
Ismail Merchant and James Ivory's final film The White Countess is to be released. - -The partnership that brought 45 films to the screen came to an end in May when Merchant died. - -The Merchant Ivory brand came to stand for high quality costume drama with their gre
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White Countess
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: James Ivory
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Set in 1930s Shanghai, where a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd -- and sometimes illicit -- jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.
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Le Divorce
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Glenn Close
Director: James Ivory
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LE DIVORCE, based on the novel by Diane Johnson, is a contemporary Merchant/Ivory production that explores the fundamental differences between Americans and the French, especially in matters of the heart and manners. Isabel (Kate Hudson) is a brash, outspoken Californian who travels to Paris to ..read more »
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The Golden Bowl
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Uma Thurman, Jeremy Northam, Kate Beckinsale
Director: James Ivory
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THE GOLDEN BOWL is Merchant-Ivory's adaptation of the Henry James novel of romantic torment--the novel James named as his favorite. The title refers to a beautiful crystal bowl encrusted with gold, which conceals a single imperceptible flaw--a small crack. The bowl is a simple, effective metaphor ..read more »
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Jefferson In Paris
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Thandie Newton
Director: James Ivory
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Statesman and 'Declaration Of Independence' author Thomas Jefferson is depicted during the time he served as America's Ambassador to France. The story follows his love life and dramatises a romance (widely believed to be exaggerated) between Jefferson and one of his youthful slaves.
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from 235 members
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The Remains Of The Day
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox
Director: James Ivory
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James Ivory directed this quietly moving film set just prior to World War II. On the large English estate of Lord Darlington (James Fox), a disciplined butler, Stevens (Anthony Hopkins), devotes himself to his duties with rigorous dedication. Like his father (Peter Vaughan) before him, Stevens ..read more »
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from 9,066 members
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Howard's End
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: James Ivory
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E.M. Forster's 1910 novel is adapted for the screen by Merchant Ivory Productions in this masterful Edwardian Age romance directed by James Ivory. The dying Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave) wishes to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson in an Academy Award-winning ..read more »
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from 4,614 members
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Mr And Mrs Bridge
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Kyra Sedgwick
Director: James Ivory
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Set in Kansas City in the late 1930s, MR & MRS BRIDGE tells the story of an upper class couple from the mid-west whose marriage is strained when their three grown-up children leave home. The Bridges are an affluent, conservative family whose lily-white lives revolve around the local country club. ..read more »
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from 124 members
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Slaves Of New York
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Bernadette Peters, Chris Sarandon, Chris Sarandon
Director: James Ivory
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This atypical Merchant Ivory film is set in a contemporary backdrop--the trendy art milieu of New York City's Lower East Side. Based on Tama Janowitz's short story collection, SLAVES OF NEW YORK is a comic portrait of Manhattan's bohemian art scene, complete with an eclectic ensemble of artists ..read more »
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from 79 members
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Maurice
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: James Wilby, Patrick Godfrey, Ben Kingsley
Director: James Ivory
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At Cambridge, Clive Durham [Grant] is immediately attracted to a fellow student, Maurice Hall [James Wilby]. The love between them is platonic but intense and, in a society that both persecutes and prosecutes homosexuals, guilt and fear lead to Clive's breakdown and a bitter rift between the two ..read more »
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from 2,383 members
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A Room With A View
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: James Ivory
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Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. This may be due to the title being deleted or on a limited release. We will continue to rent this title as soon as stock becomes available.
E.M. Forster's 1908 novel, A ROOM WITH A VIEW, is adapted for the screen by director James ..read more »
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The Bostonians
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy
Director: James Ivory
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Director James Ivory brings Henry James's classic novel THE BOSTONIANS to the screen in this evocative, historical adaptation filled with exciting, exacting performances. The story centers on the fight between an ardent feminist and a southern gentleman for a charismatic faith healer's daughter. ..read more »
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from 270 members
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Heat And Dust
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Julie Christie, Shashi Kapoor, Christopher Cazenove
Director: James Ivory
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Director James Ivory's HEAT AND DUST tells two parallel stories set in India, one in the present and the other in the days of British rule. In 1920s India, a young English bride, Olivia (Greta Scacchi), finds herself in a passionate, forbidden affair with the local Nawab (Shashi Kapoor). In the ..read more »
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from 537 members
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Quartet
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, Isabelle Adjani
Director: James Ivory
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Director James Ivory brings the bohemian Paris neighbourhood of Montparnasse in the 1920s to life in this film based on the novel by Jean Rhys. Isabelle Adjani stars as Marya Zelli, a beautiful young wife who finds herself destitute after her art dealer husband is sent to prison for theft. A rich ..read more »
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Jane Austen In Manhattan
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Robert Powell, Anne Baxter, Sean Young
Director: James Ivory
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Director James Ivory brings the intrigue and guile of rival theatre companies to life in JANE AUSTEN IN MANHATTAN. At Sotheby's auction house in New York, a theatre producer and an ambitious off-Broadway director buy an obscure childhood play written by Jane Austen. Robert Powell stars as Pierre, ..read more »
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The Europeans
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Lee Remick, Robin Ellis, Wesley Addy
Director: James Ivory
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Based on the novel by Henry James, THE EUROPEANS takes place in 1840s New England where a cultured but nearly destitute sister and brother, raised in Europe, arrive at the doorstep of their rich but innocently isolated American cousins. Hoping to exchange her sophistication for financial stability, ..read more »
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Autobiography Of A Princess
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: James Mason, Madhur Jaffrey, Keith Varnier
Director: James Ivory
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The London-based daughter-in-exile of an Indian Maharajah holds onto the memory of her father and Imperial India through faded home movies. The annual visit from her former English tutor gives her the chance to further reminisce, and to discover more about her father's complex relationship with the ..read more »
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from 75 members
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Savages
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Anne Francine, Thayer David, Louis Stadlen
Director: James Ivory
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A tribe of primitive "mudpeople" encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following it, they find themselves on a vast, deserted Long Island estate....
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Bombay Talkie
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Shashi Kapoor, Jennifer Kendal, Utpal Dutt
Director: James Ivory
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An early Merchant-Ivory film, BOMBAY TALKIE opens with a send-up of India's lavish musicals as dancers cavort on a giant typewriter in a hilarious production number. However, the film is mostly a sombre character study about best-selling English novelist Lucia Lane (Jennifer Kendal), who comes to ..read more »
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Shakespeare Wallah
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Madhur Jaffrey
Director: James Ivory
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Director James Ivory based his black-and-white 1965 film, SHAKESPEARE WALLAH, about a struggling English troupe of Shakespearan actors touring India, on an actual theater company called Shakespeariana. Shakespeariana's director, Geoffrey Kendal; his wife, Laura Liddell; and their daughter, Felicity ..read more »
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The Householder
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Shashi Kapoor, Leela Naidu, Durga Khote
Director: James Ivory
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A young Indian newlywed finds his independent wife troublesome and seeks help and advice from his overbearing mother, a supposedly worldly wise friend, an American seeker of enlightenment and a swami.
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The Wandering Company
on DVD
Starring: James Ivory, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Ismail Merchant
Director: Humphrey Dixon
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A documentary on the Mercant-Ivory production company, a fascinating insight into the unique partnership of American director James Ivory, Indian producer Ismail Merchant and German-born writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. This unique account is illustrated with clips from many of the Merchant-Ivory films,..read more »
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James Ivory facts
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Turgid but vacuous 12 July 2005
...rt screenwriter of the calibre of Andrew Davies. In an interview in the extras, James Ivory claims to have made this adaptation in response to the BBC's adaptations of Hen...
