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The expression "Merchant–Ivory film" has made its way into common parlance, to denote a particular genre of film rather than the actual production company. While 1965's Shakespeare Wallah put this genre on the international map, [ 2 ] its heyday was the 1980s and 1990s with such films as A Room with a View (1985) and Howards End (1992).
Merchant–Ivory was established in 1961 in India where they made modestly budgeted films including The Householder (1963), Shakespeare Wallah (1965), and Bombay Talkie (1970). Ivory began adapting films from classic novels such as The Europeans (1979), Quartet (1981), Heat and Dust (1983), The Bostonians (1984), Maurice (1987), and Mr. & Mrs ...
Ismail Merchant (born Ismail Noor Muhammad Abdul Rahman; 25 December 1936 – 24 May 2005) was an Indian film producer.He worked for many years in collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included film director (and Merchant's longtime professional and domestic partner) James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
Within two years, the couple established Merchant Ivory Productions and released their first feature, The Householder, in 1963. Born in Berkeley, Calif., and raised by adoptive parents in Ore ...
A Room with a View is a 1985 British romance film directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant.It is written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who adapted E. M. Forster's 1908 novel A Room with a View.
Rosenfeld was the lead producer on the major Merchant Ivory films created in what is now considered their golden decade. Along with Ismail Merchant , James Ivory and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , Rosenfeld worked on the creation of the well-received films Mr. and Mrs. Bridge , Howards End (8 Academy Award nominations), and The Remains of the Day (9 ...
The novel was made into a film by Merchant Ivory Productions, an independent production company founded in 1961 to make art-house films. They were for the most part produced by Ismail Merchant, directed by James Ivory, with scripts usually written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The idea of making the film came from Ismail Merchant who explained:
By the late 1960s, a film adaptation of the novel kindled the interest of Merchant Ivory Productions, a film company founded in 1961 by producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory. Merchant and Ivory were a couple from 1961 until Merchant's death in 2005. During their time together they made twenty-five feature films, with Merchant ...