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Oscar nominee Ivory, one-third of the celebrated Merchant Ivory film team, discusses his approach to movies with Long (The Films of Merchant Ivory), revealing his thoughts on his work, the machinations of studios and the mistakes he's made, including casting Raquel Welch in The Wild Party. Classy fare is a Merchant Ivory trademark, what Ivory dubs "sophisticated entertainment." The production team—director Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant and writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala—has created such classics as A Room with a View, Howard's End and The Remains of the Day. Long groups the team's films according to production location, such as India, England, America and France. Given this format, a filmography would be helpful in putting Ivory's career in context, since the book covers his work from college documentaries to 2003's Le Divorce; alas, there is none. Long provides only two-line plot descriptions for each film; he's more interested in providing an appreciation of Ivory's triumph over difficulties (from ornery actors to scathing reviews) and an insightful interpretation of his movies. Structured as an informal chat between two friends, the book is quite readable, a solid resource for scholars of Merchant Ivory films as well as an in-depth study of Ivory's directorial sensibilities. 70 b&w photos. (Apr.)
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"Ivory is a robust and intelligent man, interested in all sorts of things and a good observer of what goes on around him." - The Times "This series of conversations... informs and engages. Ivory charmingly speaks about a career that includes credits ranging from 'A Room with a View' to 'Surviving Picasso.' He offers insight into his technique and artistic approach, selection of subject matter, choice of actors, and interactions with associates like producer Ismail Merchant and writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.... Illuminating and often humorous." - Carol J. Binkowski, Library Journal "James Ivory is one of our greatest living directors, and these pages, deliciously poised between diplomacy and indiscretion, brim with his vast experience of every nook and cranny of the film world. Offering precious insights into how the cinematic cultures of Europe, Asia and America, of Arthouse and Hollywood, came to be blended into a ravishingly beautiful body of work, Ivory also draws for us a vivid picture of what it really feels like to put together an independent movie." - Kazuo Ishiguro"
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Robert Emmet Long: Merchant Ivory is known to be the independent film production team of the last few decades, achieving its success on its own, outside the Hollywood studio system-or maybe in defiance of it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Merchant Ivory, Anthony Hopkins, The Householder, Shakespeare Wallah, The Europeans, The Bostonians, Surviving Picasso, Howards End, Bombay Talkie, The Wild Party, Shashi Kapoor, Jane Austen, Satyajit Ray, San Francisco, United States, Henry James, Los Angeles, Miss Kenton, Warner Brothers, Emma Thompson, James Wilby, Long Did, Raquel Welch, The Delhi Way New!
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Robert Emmet Long: Merchant Ivory is known to be the independent film production team of the last few decades, achieving its success on its own, outside the Hollywood studio system-or maybe in defiance of it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Merchant Ivory, Anthony Hopkins, The Householder, Shakespeare Wallah, The Europeans, The Bostonians, Surviving Picasso, Howards End, Bombay Talkie, The Wild Party, Shashi Kapoor, Jane Austen, Satyajit Ray, San Francisco, United States, Henry James, Los Angeles, Miss Kenton, Warner Brothers, Emma Thompson, James Wilby, Long Did, Raquel Welch, The Delhi Way New!
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- Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by E. M. Forster on 20 pages
- A Room with a View (Bantam Classics) by E.M. Forster on 12 pages
- The Golden Bowl (Penguin Classics) by Henry James on 10 pages
- Henry James: The Early Novels (Twayne's United States Authors Series, Tusas 440) by Robert Emmet Long on 9 pages
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster on 4 pages
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