James Ivory
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6.7 Shakespeare Wallah (1965) 6.5 Savages (1972) 6.9 Autobiography of a Princess (1975) 6.0 The Wild Party (1975) 5.0 Roseland (1977) 5.0 Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978) 5.0 The Europeans (1979) 6.5 Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980) 6.5 Heat and Dust (1983) 5.0 The Bostonians (1984) 6.0 Quartet (1985) 7.0 A Room With A View (1985) 6.0 Maurice (1987) 5.0 Mr & Mrs Bridge (1990) 7.0 Howard's End (1992) 6.2 The Remains of the Day (1993) 5.0 Jefferson in Paris (1995) 5.0 Surviving Picasso (1996) 5.0 A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998) 5.5 The Golden Bowl (2000) 6.0 Le Divorce (2003) 5.0 The White Countess (2005) 6.0 The City of Your Final Destination (2009) | Links: |
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James Ivory (USA, 1928), born Richard Hazen in Berkeley but adopted by the
Ivory family, debuted with
documentaries such as The Sword and the Flute (1959).
In 1961 he formed a production company with his domestic partner,
Indian film producer Ismail Merchant.
Their first film was made in India, Gharbar/ The Householder (1963), an adaptation of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's novel that began the collaboration with the woman writer.
The trio then made in India the
black-and-white
historical drama
Shakespeare Wallah (1965), about a troupe of actors at the twilight of
the British occupation of India,
the English-language Guru (1969), about a hippy who travels to India to study with a master,
and the English-language
Bombay Talkie (1970), about
a British scholar who has an affair with a married Bollywood star.
Ivory then made a more original film without Jhabvala: Savages (1972), which reverses the story of Luis Bunuel's The Exterminating Angel. A notable documentary was Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization (1972). Also original was his next collaboration with Jhabvala: Autobiography of a Princess (1975), a lengthy conversation between two elderly protagonists confined to a room, an Indian princess exiled to London who is nostalgic about India's past and a British diplomat who was humiliated by Indian aristocracy. The Wild Party (1975) was an adaptation of Joseph Moncure March's novel in verse "The Wild Party" (1928). He resumed the collaboration with Jhabvala for Roseland (1977), consisting of three connected episodes set in a New York disco, and Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978), a sort of thriller about thieves of painting in India. At this point the trio decided to focus on adaptations of literary classics: The Europeans (1979) from Henry James, Quartet (1985) from Jean Rhys, The Bostonians (1984) from Henry James, until the EM Forster trilogy of A Room with a View (1985), Maurice (1987) and Howards End (1992). More original were Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980), set in the milieu of theater, Heat and Dust (1983), adapted from Jhabvala's 1975 novel, and Courtesans of Bombay (1983), a docudrama directed by Ismail Merchant. The trio then turned to lighter material: Mr & Mrs Bridge (1990), adapted from Evan Connell's novels, The Remains of the Day (1993), adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro's 1989 novel, Jefferson in Paris (1995), Surviving Picasso (1996), A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998), and Le Divorce (2003), adapted from Diane Johnson's 1997 novel. They returned to Henry James' masterpieces with The Golden Bowl (2000). The White Countess (2005) was instead scripted by Kazuo Ishiguro. Merchant died in 2005. Jhabvala still scripted The City of Your Final Destination (2009), adapted from Peter Cameron's novel. She died in 2013. |
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