By Rex Reed 8/11/03 12:00am

This Smash-Up Is Just Smashing!

Bilingual, bipartisan, bilateral, bisexual-no matter how you bisect yourself, you will find some words that mean the same in English and French alike. No double-entendre in le divorce ; like le drugstore , it’s one of those words understood equally in Massachusetts or Montparnasse. And it’s the perfect title for the new Merchant-Ivory film about Read More

By Andrew Sarris 4/30/01 12:00am

Henry James’ Americans Shop for Love and Art Abroad

James Ivory’s The

Golden Bowl , from a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, based on the novel

by Henry James, and produced by Ismail Merchant, reunites the Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala

team on a cinematic adaptation of a Henry James classic-reportedly for the last

time, though this will probably not deter the pseudo-brutalists from their

sneering condescension toward Read More