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James Ivory. 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. The films were for the most part produced by Merchant ...
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by James Ivory (Author), Peter Cameron (Editor) 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, ...
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Merchant's first film was a theatrical short, The Creation of Woman, which was nominated in 1961 for an Academy Award and was an official entry from the United States in the Cannes Film Festival that same year. While en route to the Festival, Merchant met James Ivory, who agreed to form a partnership, Merchant Ivory Productions, More...
At the beginning of the 21st century, Merchant and Ivory continued to work as a producing-directing team, creating such films as Le Divorce (2003) and The White Countess (2005). After Merchant’s death, Ivory directed The City of Your Final Destination (2009). He later wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Call Me by Your Name (2017), which ...
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- 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.
1963/India, 101 minutes. In 1961, Ismail Merchant and James Ivory paid a visit to the German-born novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, then living in Delhi, with a proposal to make a film of her novel The Householder. Jhabvala agreed. She wrote the screenplay for the film herself, in ten days, and the Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala partnership was inaugurated.
Nov 13, 2023 · The prolific company founded by producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory became synonymous with elegant literary adaptations in the 1980s and ‘90s.
