The City of Your Final Destination is the first film esteemed director James Ivory has made since the death of producer Ismail Merchant, his business partner through 49 years of distinguished Merchant Ivory films. With only one-half of Merchant Ivory in operation, can a reputation for literate, civilized and polished motion pictures several cuts above Read More
Last night, illustrious film director James Ivory was honored at the Trophée des Arts Gala in Gotham Hall—a fittingly cinematic space with soaring, ornamented ceilings and dreadful acoustics. Uma Thurman didn’t attend the black-tie dinner, but she did arrive just in time to give Mr. Ivory his award, which pays tribute to those Read More
By the time I sat down for a studio screening of Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, I was braced by all the advance hype from Venice and Toronto, as well as the local showbiz columns and media outlets, for the supposed shock of two men in cowboy hats acting out the old underground jokes about the Read More
James Ivory’s Le Divorce , produced by Ishmail Merchant and Michael Schiffer and adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Mr. Ivory, retains much of the bite and humor of Diane Johnson’s wondrously prophetic 1997 novel, which explores the various ways the French and the Americans rub each other the wrong way without much trying. Our Read More
