Merchant Ivory Productions

06/07/2018

HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY to ~ MERCHANT IVORY'S JAMES IVORY~ Born: June 7, 1928 ~ Forever a filmmaking legend! ~

05/21/2018

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05/14/2018

Merchant Ivory Productions

05/14/2018

ET Obsessions: ‘Deadpool 2,’ ‘13 Reasons Why,’ Timothee Chalamet T-Shirts and More!

Why ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT is Obsessed With Timothée Chalamet T-shirts

Here’s what ET is obsessing over this week!

05/13/2018

There's Now an Official Timothée Chalamet T-Shirt—and Trust Us, It's Going to Sell Fast

See InStyle Magazine's cover story on James Ivory's iconic 2018 Timothée Chalamet Oscars shirt!

The Call Me By Your Name star's face is the $30 accent your wardrobe needs.

03/05/2018

James Ivory is oldest Oscar winner ever with screenplay award for Call Me by Your Name

James Ivory is oldest Oscar winner ever with screenplay award for Call Me by Your Name

The 89 year-old Room with a View director won his first Oscar for his adaptation of the impassioned gay romance novel

03/05/2018

Watch James Ivory on the Oscars Red Carpet with Oscars 2018 All Access

James Ivory at the OSCARS

Watch CALL ME BY YOUR NAME on 2018 Oscars All Access for a behind the scenes look!

01/23/2018

Oscar Nominations 2018: The Complete List

The 90th Academy Awards :

'Call Me By Your Name'
Receives four nominations including:
Best Picture, Best Actor and
Best Adapted Screenplay by James Ivory

Oscar nominations for the 90th annual awards were announced on Tuesday morning from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, Calif. Academy President John Bailey was joined by Tiffany Haddish a…

01/23/2018

James Ivory on His Film Legacy and Adapting 'Call Me by Your Name'

James Ivory on His Film Legacy and Adapting 'Call Me by Your Name'

The 89-year-old filmmaker and directing half of the Merchant Ivory cannon is enjoying a late-career renaissance with his screenplay to Luca Guadagnino's awards season favorite.

10/05/2017

Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of The Day author, Kazuo Ishiguro
Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nobel-prize-in-literature-awarded-to-kazuo-ishiguro-1507201730

The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Britain’s Kazuo Ishiguro, author of”The Remains of the Day.”

06/12/2017

Episode 86: Merchant Ivory’s Gay Love Story, and a Visit with Noriega - The New Yorker

Episode 86: Merchant Ivory’s Gay Love Story, and a Visit with Noriega - The New Yorker

James Ivory talks about his groundbreaking film “Maurice,” and Jon Lee Anderson discusses the rise and fall of Manuel Noriega.

06/24/2016

Restored ‘Howards End’ to Be Released in Theaters

'Howards End' Theatrical Re-Release - Coming Soon

Cohen Media Group will release a 4K restoration of the 1992 romantic drama “Howards End,” which screened at the Cannes Film Festival last month as part of the Cannes Classics program. &…

06/03/2016

Cohen Media Group

Cohen Media Group

Deniz Gamze Ergüven makes the Indiewire list of "Director Debuts: The 20 Best First Films of the Last 20 Years" for MUSTANG. #MustangFilm

05/24/2016

Director James Ivory to screen 'Remains of the Day' at the Madison

Attend June's The Remains of the Day Screening with James Ivory

Set for 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 18, the screening-with-discussion will feature Ivory in conversation with Peter Biskind, film critic and former executive editor of Premiere magazine. With Ivory directing, Merchant producing and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala writing screenplays, the Merchant Ivory te...

05/20/2016

Howards End: a look back at Merchant-Ivory's masterpiece

A Merchant Ivory Masterpiece

James Ivory - that most British of Americans - pays homage to an unspoiled and authentic England in Howards End, made in 1992 and winning the 45th Festival de Cannes Anniversary Prize the same year. Cannes Classics shows the copy of the film restored in 4K.

05/16/2016

Vanessa Redgrave: ‘I’m stunned anyone ever said a word against Howards End’

Vanessa Redgrave on Howards End, from Cannes 2016.

Speaking as acclaimed adaptation enjoys anniversary restoration, actor and director James Ivory attribute costume drama backlash to ignorance and inverse snobbery and discuss why EM Foster would have approved of social media

05/14/2016

Vanessa Redgrave & Joely Richardson Team For Henry James Adaptation ‘Aspern Papers’ – Cannes

Henry James' 'Aspern Papers' Announced at Cannes

Mother and daughter Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson are teaming to star in Julien Landais’ Aspern Papers. Film House Germany is producing and financing the prestige project, which is ba…

05/13/2016

Arthouse Believer Charles Cohen Hits Cannes With Restored ‘Howards End’

Howards End Honored at 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

One of New York City and Los Angeles’ most important real estate moguls, Charles Cohen also applies his decades of experience and business acumen to the independent film distribution business, an e…

05/13/2016

Howards End by James Ivory

James Ivory at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

Under French law n° 78-17 of 6 January 1978, modified relating to data processing, files, and liberties, internet users have the right to oppose (art. 38 of the law), access (art. 39 of the law), and amend and delete (art. 40 of the law) data concerning them. To exercise these rights, the internet u...

03/30/2016

Today in Merchant Ivory History, A Room with a View wins three Academy Awards:
Best Art Direction, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Screenplay!

03/29/2016

Today in Merchant Ivory History, Howards End wins three Academy Awards:
Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Art Direction!

02/22/2016

Today in Merchant Ivory History, Howards End received three National Board of Review Awards for Best Director, Best Film and Best Actress

02/03/2016

Today in Merchant Ivory History, James Ivory wins National Board of Review Award for Best Director in "Howards End"!

01/23/2016

Today in Merchant Ivory History, Emma Thompson won Golden Globe for Best Actress in "Howards end"!

12/28/2015

Happy Birthday, Dame Maggie Smith!

12/04/2015

Movies Off The Beaten Path: Oscar-nominated director James Ivory in Calgary for Hidden Gems...

Movies Off The Beaten Path: Oscar-nominated director James Ivory in Calgary for Hidden Gems...

The leisurely paced, exquisite costume dramas that director James Ivory made as part of Merchant Ivory productions are almost a genre unto themselves. The best-known titles — Howards End, The Remai...

12/04/2015

Legendary filmmaker James Ivory coming to Calgary's Hidden Gems Film Festival

See James Ivory at the Hidden Gems Film Festival in Calgary (Dec. 4-6)
http://www.hiddengemsfilmfestival.com/

09/17/2015

#tbt - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala & Shashi Kapoor in #Mumbai (1966) - Ruth wrote over 23 screenplays & 12 novels before passing away in 2013 at the age of 85. She is sorely missed by the entire Merchant Ivory Productions family.

09/14/2015

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09/12/2015

Video: House Tour | James Ivory

Video: House Tour | James Ivory

The Merchant Ivory director’s 19th-century mansion in New York’s Hudson Valley is filled with memories and ephemera from over 50 years of filmmaking with his late partner Ismail Merchant.

09/11/2015

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09/10/2015

#tbt - Ismail Merchant, Anthony Hopkins, James Ivory (1996)
#Paris #AnthonyHopkins #movie

09/07/2015

Giorgio Armani chips in to restore Fists in the Pocket

Movie restoration is not just big money, but very hard work and, and above all, it needs a kind of dedication that translates into passion. Once, it was Ismail Merchant's enthusiasm that helped get Satyajit Ray's masterpieces out of the wilderness and into the labs. Now, Giorgio Armani is going beyond cutting cloth and styling seduction to infuse a fresh lease of celluloid life into battered old movie prints (see article below)

The celebrated Italian designer, Giorgio Armani, is going beyond cutting cloth and styling seduction to infuse a fresh lease of celluloid life into battered old movie prints--crying to get back to rolling in projector rooms. Armani has just helped reconstruct Marco Bellocchio's 50-year-old Italian f…

09/02/2015

James Ivory headed to Calgary for film retrospective

Six of Merchant Ivory Productions's early films set in India will be showcased by Calgary, Alberta's Hidden Gems Film Festival for which James Ivory will introduce and discuss in November.

James Ivory, arguably one of the most prolific and influential independent filmmakers, is set to visit Calgary in November for a retrospective of his early films.

08/06/2015

#ThrowbackThursday - Ismail Merchant & Rita Tushingham behind the scenes while filming The Guru (1969 film)

07/28/2015

Best Merchant Ivory Productions Movies List

What are your favorite Merchant Ivory Productions films?

List of Merchant Ivory Productions movies, ranked from best to worst, including trailers, genres, and release dates. Merchant Ivory Productions produced and/or distributed these films, which are listed in alphabetical order and sortable by any column. This is a list of all notable and most famous M.…

07/24/2015

Shashi Kapoor, Indian Hollywood Crossover Star, Gets Highest Film Honor - Hollywood Reporter

Shashi Kapoor's international career was largely based on his long association with the acclaimed Merchant Ivory Productions banner formed by late producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory, and late author and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

One of India's living cinema icons, Shashi Kapoor, has been honored with the Dada Saheb Phalke Award, the country's most prestigious film prize awarded by the government. Kapoor, 77, was honored for his contribution to Indian cinema spanning a career that began in the 1960s both at home and abroad.…

07/22/2015

The best American film directors, from Robert Altman to Robert Zemeckis

A recent list of best directors from A to Z. James Ivory is recognized as the best director for the letter "I"

A.V. To Z is an alphabetical survey of a specific realm in pop culture.Tough decisions are what A.V. To Z is all about. How do you choose between Sleater-Kinney and Spoon? What’s the deciding factor in a tag-team square off between Ren and Stimpy and Rocky and Bullwinkle? It gets agonizing, folks. B

07/20/2015

Ismail Merchant nominated to be the face of Britain's 20 pound bank note - The Times of India

Ismail Merchant has now been nominated along with greats like Francis Bacon, Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Olivier, John Nash, Richard Attenborough, William Blake and Charlie Chaplin.

Could Indian born film director and producer Ismail Merchant become the next face of Britain's 20 pound bank note?

07/14/2015

SAD REFRAIN FOR THWARTED SUPERSTAR JIMMY ROSELLI MAY HAVE BEEN HIS OWN BIGGEST ROADBLOCK TO...

Learn more about Jimmy Roselli, the real-life star of the upcoming music biopic by Merchant Ivory Productions, Make the Wiseguys Weep.
Coming to theaters in 2016…..

Making the Wiseguys Weep: The Jimmy Roselli Story By David Evanier FSG, $24 It's easy to see Jimmy Roselli's story as the stuff of epic Greek tragedy. All you have to do is envision the Greek gods as profane lunkhead 20th-century mobsters. Roselli's problem, suggests biographer David Evanier, is thi…

07/12/2015

Merchant Ivory Productions's cover photo

07/11/2015

The Remains of the Day - A Room with a View - Howards End

07/09/2015

#tbt - Ismail Merchant & James Ivory (c.1963)

07/07/2015

TV Directors Strive For Historical Accuracy in Period Dramas

I would be mortified if I didn’t get it right. Liz Trubridge, my executive producer, once said (these) few words to me: ‘ “West Wing” meets Merchant Ivory.’

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TV directors discuss the myriad challenges of directing period pieces

07/07/2015

Shashi Kapoor receives highest honour in Indian cinema - Stabroek News

Shashi Kapoor’s many cinematic successes include Deewar, Kabhi Kabhie, Namak Halaal, Sharmilee, Junoon, New Delhi Times and Merchant-Ivory films like The Householder, Heat and Dust and In Custody...

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Mumbai’s Prithvi Theatre was filled to brimming with Kapoors from Bollywood’s First Family on May 10 when veteran actor Shashi Kapoor received the Dadasahe