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  1. In Solid Ivory, a carefully crafted mosaic of memories, portraits, and reflections, the Academy Award–winning filmmaker James Ivory, a partner in the legendary Merchant Ivory Productions and the director of A Room with a View, Howards End, ... Learn More | Purchase Now!

    • Quartet

      t has been said that most great twentieth century novels...

    • Merchant Ivory Productions

      Three Oscar -winning actresses illuminate the screen in...

    • The Europeans

      The first of Merchant Ivory's triptych of Henry James...

    • Maurice

      E.M. Forster's Maurice (1914), the second of his novels to...

  2. Merchant Ivory Productions is a film company founded in 1961 by producer Ismail Merchant (1936–2005) and director James Ivory (b. 1928). Merchant and Ivory were life and business partners from 1961 until Merchant's death in 2005. During their time together, they made 44 films.

    Year
    Title
    Director
    Producer
    2009
    James Ivory
    Paul Bradley and Pierre Proner
    2007
    Mark Burton, Paul Hardart, Tom Hardart, ...
    2005
    James Ivory
    Ismail Merchant
    2005
    Richard Hawley, James Ivory, and Ismail ...
    • Shakespeare Wallah (1965) The second Merchant Ivory movie follows a troupe of stage actors traveling across India putting on Shakespeare plays. It's loosely based on the story of Geoffrey Kendal – father of Felicity – who earned the nickname "Shakespearewallah" because of his dedication to Shakespeare during an era when theater was being eclipsed by Bollywood.
    • The Europeans (1979) Though it was shot on a tight budget, Merchant Ivory managed to make their first period drama look pretty lavish. Adapted by Prawer Jhabvala from Henry James' novel, it centers on a fascinating encounter between a wealthy New England family and their more bohemian and eccentric European cousins.
    • The Bostonians (1984) This fiercely intelligent Henry James adaptation has a brilliant, Oscar-nominated performance from Vanessa Redgrave. She plays Olive Chancellor, a leading light of the women's suffrage movement who enters into an unlikely rivalry with her chauvinist relative Basil Ransom (Christopher Reeve).
    • A Room with a View (1985) Merchant Ivory's reputation really grew thanks to this stellar E.M. Forster adaptation with an Oscar-winning Prawer Jhabvala screenplay.
  3. Nov 13, 2023 · There’s often been unfair snobbery about the films of Merchant Ivory, the production banner founded in 1961 by producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, which gives Stephen Soucy’s...

  4. Jul 28, 2017 · The Henry James adaptations are the best start to any journey through Merchant Ivory’s American films. The Europeans (1979) may be too stagey for some, but The Bostonians (1984) is one of their most overlooked films, transforming James’s original into a wrenching melodrama, as a paranoid feminist and a charming chauvinist battle for the ...

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