Personnel:
James Ivory, President/Director
Neil Jesuele, Executive VP/Producer (Europe)
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Credits:
The White Countess
Heights
Le Divorce
The Mystic Masseur
The Golden Bowl
Cotton Mary
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
The Proprietary
Jefferson in Paris
Slaves of New York
Maurice
Howards End
A Room with a View
Surviving Picasso
The Remains of the Day
The Bostonians
Merci Dr. Rey
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No unsolicited submissions.
Production Types:
Documentaries, Made-for-TV & Cable Movies, Interactive & Digital Media, Film
Comments:
From Shakespeare Wallah, the bittersweet tale of a wandering theatrical company in India, which established the company's reputation in 1965, to the richly detailed comic masterpiece A Room with a View in 1986, and the poignant Oscar-winning film Howards End in 1992, Merchant Ivory has provided audiences around the world with thoughtful and beautifully crafted features, documentaries, and shorts.
Merchant Ivory's films have been praised for their visual beauty, their mature and intelligent themes, and the shrewd casting and fine acting from which they derive their unique power.
Merchant Ivory is actually a collaboration of three remarkable people from three vastly different cultures: Ismail Merchant, the producer, born in India; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the screenwriter, born in Germany and educated in England; and James Ivory, the director, born in the United States.
The scope of their subjects is as broad as their range of locations. They have explored India's past and present in such features as The Householder, Bombay Talkie, and Autobiography of a Princess; the clash of cultures in Shakespeare Wallah, Heat and Dust, and The Europeans; the conflicts and anomie of a modern urban life in Quartet, Roseland, and Slaves of New York; and the struggle for self-discovery in The Bostonians, A Room with a View, Maurice, and Mr. and Mrs. Bridge.