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BOMBAY TALKIE
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An English female writer of trash novels arrives in India looking for passion and romance. She finds she can meet her goals with affairs with an actor and a poet, but at what cost to the men involved? With Jennifer Kendall and Zia Mohyeddin. In English. James Ivory---India---1970---105 mins.
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BOSTONIANS
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A Merchant/Ivory literary adaptation of Henry James' novel concerning an intriguing sexual triangle. A beautiful though innocent orator (Madeleine Potter) is caught between a stern suffragette (Vanessa Redgrave) and a repressed, upper class lawyer (Christopher Reeve). With Jessica Tandy, Linda Hunt and Wallace Shawn. Adaptation by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. James Ivory---Great Britain---1984---120 mins.
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COURTESANS OF BOMBAY
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An insightful portrait of the compound in Bombay called Pavanpul where young women entertain men who come searching for the escape of eroticism. "By night the caged birds sing in the pleasure palace" (Jan Hoffman). James Ivory---Great Britain/India---1985---74 mins.
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EUROPEANS
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A charming European aristocrat and her brash younger brother upset the lives of their cousins upon their arrival in Boston, in this Merchant/Ivory adaptation of Henry James' novel. Screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. With Lee Remick, Robin Ellis, Tim Woodward, Wesley Addy and Lisa Eichhorn. James Ivory---Great Britain---1979---90 mins.
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FIVE FORTY-EIGHT
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Tony Award-winner Terrence McNally adapted this John Cheever story for the stage, directed for television by James Ivory (A Room with a View, The Remains of the Day). Mary Beth Hurt and Laurence Luckinbill star in the tale of a philandering executive stalked by a former secretary whom he seduced James Ivory---USA---1979---60 mins.
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GOLDEN BOWL ( BECKINSALE )
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The Merchant-Ivory team again tackles Henry James with this "gripping drama of love and adultery" (Jonathan Foreman, New York Post). The love between a penniless American socialite and a financially struggling Italian aristocrat becomes a scandalous affair when they both marry others for money. The scenario is complicated further because the spouses of the former lovers are father and daughter. With Kate Beckinsale, James Fox, Anjelica Huston, Nick Nolte, Jeremy Northam, and Uma Thurman. James Ivory---Great Britain/USA---2000---130 mins.
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HEAT AND DUST
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Julie Christie and Greta Scacchi star in this romantically parallel story about a modern Englishwoman and her great aunt. The aunt (Scacchi), a pretty, witty and reckless young wife of a British civil servant in the 20's, innocently succumbs to India, and one of its princes. 60 years later, Christie follows in her footsteps. A very sexy film. James Ivory---Great Britain/USA---1983---130 mins.
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HOUSEHOLDER
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The first collaboration of producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory and novelist and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (A Room with a View, Howards End) is this perceptive comedy about the difficulties of a young Indian man trying to adapt to his arranged marriage. It "tells us some eternal truths about the maturity pains a young husband undergoes but also paints a fresh, vivid and pointed picture of an emerging society" (Judith Crist). With Shashi Kapoor, Leela Naidu and Durga Khote. James Ivory---Great Britain---1962---101 mins.
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HOWARDS END (2-DISCS)
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Merchant/Ivory's wonderfully acted, beautifully constructed adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel about the unconventional love, class struggle and hypocrisy of upper class Edwardian England. The film concerns two sisters (Academy Award winner Emma Thompson and Helena Bonham Carter) and their romantic and personal entanglements with aristocratic, wealthy landowners (Anthony Hopkins and Vanessa Redgrave). Cinematography is by Tony Pierce-Roberts. Academy Award-winning screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. With James Wilby, Samuel James Ivory---Great Britain---1992---143 mins.
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HOWARDS END (CRITERION)
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Merchant/Ivory's beautifully constructed adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, starring Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Anthony Hopkins and Vanessa Redgrave.
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HULLABALOO OVER GEORGIE
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A young Maharaja named Georgie and his sister Bonnie own some ancient miniature paintings that create quite a stir with their friends and houseguests in this dramatic comedy from Ismail Merchant and James Ivory (A Room with a View). The cast includes Peggy Ashcroft, Victor Banerjee, Saeed James Ivory---Great Britain---1980---83 mins.
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JANE AUSTEN IN MANHATTAN
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From the creators of Room with a View, James Ivory and Ismail Merchant venture into this satirical arena when rival theater companies plan to mount an obscure script by Jane Austen: one as a handsome period piece; the other a conceptual, avant-garde design. Anne Baxter and Robert Powell star. James Ivory---USA---1980---108 mins.
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LE DIVORCE
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The Merchant Ivory team (A Room with a View) returns to France for this light romantic comedy ripe with Hollywood star power, based on Diane Johnson's acclaimed eponymous novel. Kate Hudson stars a young woman who jets off to Paris when her pregnant stepsister, Roxy (Naomi Watts), is abandoned by her philandering husband. The two hit the Parisian party scene, where Isabel falls for a much older man with a close connection to Roxy's husband. Also stars Glenn Close, Stockard Channing, Sam Waterson, Matthew Modine, Bebe Neuwirth, Leslie Caron, and Stephen Fry. James Ivory---USA/France---2003---117 mins.
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MAURICE
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James Ivory directs this sensitive film about the relationship between two men who meet while studying at Cambridge in 1910 and eventually fall in love. Based on the novel by E.M. Forster, which was published after his death. With James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott and Ben Kingsley. James Ivory---Great Britain---1987---135 mins.
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MR. & MRS. BRIDGE
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Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward are cast as a conservative Kansas City couple whose marriage comes under close scrutiny as the years go past. Based on two novels by Evan S. Connell, this finely etched family drama spends its time and energies on life's quieter moments. With Blythe Danner, Simon Callow and Kyra Sedgwick. Woodward was nominated for an Oscar. James Ivory---USA---1990---127 mins.
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QUARTET
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A James Ivory film based on the book by Jean Rhys, which stars Maggie Smith, Alan Bates, Isabelle Adjani and Anthony Higgins. These fine performers are involved in a 1920's Bohemian drama set in Paris, wherein seduction and decadence are the name of the game. Not to be confused with the film of the same name based on the writing of Somerset Maugham. In English and French with James Ivory---Great Britain/France---1981---101 mins.
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REMAINS OF THE DAY
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In this drama, the relationship between a butler and a housekeeper, played by Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, is stifled by the demands of conflicting duties. The household they manage plays host to important political gatherings attended by fascist leaders. Their roles may very well hasten the demise of their country, not to mention their growing affection for one another. Based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguri. James Ivory---Great Britain---1993---134 mins.
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ROOM WITH A VIEW, A
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Maggie Smith stars in this acclaimed film, based on the E.M. Forster novel, which evokes the manners and mores of an era.
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ROSELAND
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This Merchant/Ivory trilogy centers on romance in the famous New York dance hall, the Roseland Ballroom, and is a gentle, spirited work redolent in the memories, ambitions and idealized preoccupations of the forlorn souls who inhabit its room. With Christopher Walken, Geraldine Chaplin, Teresa Wright and Lilia Skala. Written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. James Ivory---USA---1977---104 mins.
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SAVAGES (IVORY)
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James Ivory's offbeat look at society, in which a naked band of primitives, disturbed from their sacrifices by a croquet ball, discover a deserted mansion, and begin to "get civilized." But the line between savages and civilization is not that strong. James Ivory---USA---1973---108 mins.
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