James Ivory
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
At their annual tea party reunion, an Indian princess (Madhur Jaffrey), long divorced and living in self-exile in London, and her father’s ex-tutor, Cyril Sahib (James Mason) view home-movie footage of their former life in India. While the recollections of the Princess are selective and hazily nostalgic, Cyril’s memories about their common past and her father, the Maharaja, have left him disillusioned and appalled. Official Selection at the **New...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
Cross-cutting between two generations, James Ivory’s sprawling epic of self-discovery is also a lush evocation of the prismatic and sensuous beauty of India. As she searches for answers to the mystery surrounding a long-ago affair between her aunt Olivia and an Indian prince, Anne (Julie Christie) becomes immersed in the local culture, the pull of the past simultaneously leading her into a clearer view of her own future. Winner of Best Adapted Screenplay...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
Elegiac and atmospheric, SHAKESPEARE WALLAH was the feature film that really put Merchant Ivory Productions on the international movie map, winning them great critical acclaim. Starring a young Felicity Kendal, the film's inspiration lies in the real-life adventures of Ms. Kendal's family as a traveling theater group in India during the final days of English colonial rule. The Buckingham Players try to uphold British tradition by staging Shakespeare...
5) Quartet
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
A twisted relationship between a wealthy English couple and a young woman they take in, plays out against a stunning recreation of the Golden Age of 1920s Paris. In adapting Jean Rhys's 1928 autobiographical novel, Merchant Ivory achieved an artistic breakthrough that remains one of the team's finest works. Isabelle Adjani plays the vulnerable but complicated West-Indian Marya, who, after her shady husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins) is imprisoned, finds...
6) Howards End
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson) and her sister Helen (Helena Bonham Carter) become involved with two couples: a wealthy, conservative industrialist (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife (Vanessa Redgrave), and a working-class man (Samuel West) and his mistress (Niccola Duffet). The interwoven fates and misfortunes of these three families and the diverging trajectories of the two sisters’ lives are connected to the ownership of Howards End, a beloved...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Boston, 1876: At a Women's Movement meeting, fiercely independent Olive (Vanessa Redgrave) becomes mentor to gifted young orator Verena (Madeleine Potter) - who soon attracts the amorous attentions of Olive's Southern cousin Basil (Christopher Reeve). The contesting demands of courtship and sapphic friendship in this love-triangle in all but name are further complicated by New York society matron Mrs. Burrage, who tries to secure Verena for her son....
8) Maurice
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Set against the stifling conformity of pre-World War I English society, MAURICE is a story of coming to terms with one's sexuality and identity in the face of disapproval and misunderstanding. Maurice Hall (James Wilby) and Clive Durham (Hugh Grant) find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. At a time when homosexuality is punishable by imprisonment, the two must keep their feelings for one another a secret. After a friend is arrested and disgraced...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Mentor. Lover. Philanderer.Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins delivers a stunningly brilliantportrait of an obsessed artist. He lives life on a scale that consumesand destroys the women drawn to him--until he meets the one woman whoproves his equal.Based on the book Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by AriannaStassinopoulos.
Publisher
CBS/Fox Video
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
Set in 1907, when Victorian morality still held much of Emglish society, the playful comedy centers on Miss Lucy Honeychurch, an upper class young woman whose inherent passion for life is stifled until a trip to Italy where she tasts impetuousness, and begins to take her life into her own hands.
13) Heat and dust
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Story of a woman who goes to India to find the truth about her aunt who left her British husband for an Indian prince.
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by E.M. Forster.
Set in the early 1900's. "Tells the story of the coming of age of Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham-Carter). Longing to burst free from the repression of British upper class manners and mores, she must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George (Julian Sands) and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil (Daniel Day-Lewis)"--Container.
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, a butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer. And in SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the title opposites.
