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Merchant Ivory Productions was founded in 1961 by Ismail Merchant and James Ivory [5] in India to produce English language films. [6]After early, modest successes with films such as The Householder, Shakespeare Wallah, and Bombay Talkie, Merchant and Ivory suffered a lean period during the 1970s.
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.
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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 ...
James Francis Ivory (born Richard Jerome Hazen [1] June 7, 1928) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was a principal in Merchant Ivory Productions along with Indian film producer Ismail Merchant (his domestic and professional partner) and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
Ismail Merchant had previously worked with British author Kazuo Ishiguro, whose Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day had been adapted into one of Merchant Ivory's most successful films. Ivory initially asked Ishiguro to adapt the Junichiro Tanizaki novel The Diary of a Mad Old Man , but he wrote an original screenplay based on his ...
The film was produced by Ismail Merchant via Merchant Ivory Productions and Film Four International, and written by Ivory and Kit Hesketh-Harvey, with cinematography by Pierre Lhomme. It is a tale of gay love in the restrictive and repressed culture of Edwardian England. The story follows its main character, Maurice Hall, through university, a ...
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: