James Ivory

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Householder, The (1963): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Leela Naidu, Durga Khote…; A young Indian newlywed is ill–prepared for marriage to his charming but independent wife and seeks advice from his tyrannical mother, a…
Shakespeare Wallah (1965): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendall, Madhur Jaffrey; The first major film from the Merchant–Ivory collaboration, this elegaic drama follows the progress of an English theatre troupe through India…
Bombay Talkie (1970): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Zia Mohyeddin; Probably the most visually distinguished Merchant–Ivory film, this semi–satiric swirl through the 'Bollywood' film industry works as both…
Savages (1972): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Sam Waterston, Lewis J. Stadlen, Anne Francine…; Merchant Ivory's most unexpected film is an allegorical story of a primitive jungle tribe who are interrupted, mid human–sacrifice, by a…
Autobiography of a Princess (1975): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Madhur Jaffrey, James Mason; Merchant Ivory production about an Indian princess (Madhur Jaffrey) who has left her homeland and lives in contemporary London. On the anniversary of…
Roseland (1977): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Teresa Wright, Lou Jacobi, Geraldine Chaplin…; Three separate but interlocking stories set in New York's famed dance palace, about people trying to essentially, 'find the right dance partner'.…
Hullabaloo over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Peggy Ashcroft, Saeed Jaffrey, Victor Banerjee; Television film from Merchant Ivory productions, about an attempted theft of valuable paintings from an Indian palace. The thieves include a museum…
Europeans, The (1979): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Lee Remick, Wesley Addy, Lisa Eichhorn; Possibly the best of the early Merchant–Ivory productions develops Henry James' novel of 19th century New England into a subtle study of family…
Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Anne Baxter, Robert Powell, MIchael Wager…; Delightful Merchant Ivory production has two rival theatre companies dueling over the right to produce a recently discovered Jane Austen manuscript.…
Quartet (1981): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Isabelle Adjani, Alan Bates, Maggie Smith…; Merchant–Ivory period drama, starring Isabelle Adjani as a young Parisian who moves in with an older couple following the arrest of her husband.
Heat and Dust (1982): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Julie Christie, Greta Scacchi; Sophisticated soap opera follows the escapades of two Englishwomen, two generations apart, who both succumb to the seductive mysticism of India.
Bostonians, The (1984): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy…; Set in post–Civil War Boston, this slow, though beautifully shot drama is a sturdy version of Henry James' famous novel. Concerning the…
Room with a View, A (1985): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Daniel Day-Lewis, Denholm Elliott…; Arguably the pinnacle achievement of the Merchant–Ivory partnership, this light–toned but nuanced adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel…
Maurice (1987): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Hugh Grant, James Wilby, Rupert Graves…; In the face of Edwardian attitudes and noble breeding, two young Englishmen comes to terms with their homosexuality. From E.M. Forster's novel.
Slaves of New York (1989): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Bernadette Peters, Chris Sarandon, Mary Beth Hurt…; Screen adaptation of Tama Janowitz' cult novel about the pretensions and perversions of fashionable New Yorkers. Stars Bernadette Peters.
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward; A Merchant–Ivory production with real–life partners Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward as a straight–laced couple who devote their…
Howards End (1992): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter; Merchant/Ivory's E.M. Forster adaptation is so exquisite it pales their previous efforts. Forster's usual themes of class injustice and emotional…
Remains of the Day (1993): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve…; Note–perfect adaptation of the Booker–winning novel plays out its key themes of duty and betrayal, love and loss with effortless class,…
Jefferson in Paris (1995): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Thandiwe Newton; Thomas Jefferson's sabbatical in revolutionary Paris with Nick Nolte in the central role. Merchant Ivory's period detail is of course faultless, but…
Surviving Picasso (1997): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone, Julianne Moore…; Anthony Hopkins acts his beret off in this portrait of the insatiable, cantankerous Spanish genius and the trail of emotional devastation he left…
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, Leelee Sobieski, Barbara Hershey…; Merchant/Ivory make one of their rare ventures into recent history, with a surprisingly eloquent depiction of an expatriate American family stoically…
Golden Bowl, The (2000): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Nick Nolte, Uma Thurman, Kate Beckinsale…; Ambitious adaptation of Henry James’ most complex novel, Merchant–Ivory recruiting Nick Nolte, Uma Thurman, Kate Beckinsale and Jeremy…
Le Divorce (2003): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Leslie Caron…; Neither romantic escapism nor French farce American–style, this comedy from ‘prestige’ partnership Merchant–Ivory can’t find shape…
White Countess, The (2005): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave…; Set in the tumult of 1930s Shanghai, when China was threatened with Japanese invasion, this final Merchant–Ivory production (producer Ismail…
City Of Your Final Destination, The (2009): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, Charlotte Gainsbourg…; Beautifully shot Merchant Ivory film about a doctoral student who travels to Uruguay in an attempt to win over the dysfunctional family of Latin…

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