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The master filmmaker has published a candid memoir, “Solid Ivory,” about his life in movies, his relationship with Ismail Merchant and much more.
Nov. 10, 2021
Movies
New 2K restoration of director James Ivory and writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s adaptation of the Henry James novel “The Europeans,” about two aristocratic siblings paying a visit to their American cousins in 19th-century New England.
Dec. 19, 2019
Dec. 8, 2017
Critics, mostly American ones, use the phrase “there’s a ‘Masterpiece Theatre’ quality about it” as a mild put-down.
Dec. 30, 1993
Legendary costume designer Ann Roth triumphs at the 2021 Oscars for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” and ties the record for oldest winner with James Ivory.
April 25, 2021
“Jim! JIM! JIIIIM!!”
Nov. 22, 1992
For some, Paris is Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe -- an embarrassment of touristic riches interspersed with strings of baffling words and encounters with equally baffling food and wine.
Aug. 8, 2003
Entertainment & Arts
With James Ivory’s win for best adapted screenplay for “Call Me By Your Name,” he became the oldest person to ever take home the golden Oscars statue.
March 4, 2018
It was somehow fitting that on a night that celebrated the 90th Academy Awards, an Oscar would go to James Ivory, who himself turns 90 in June.
The Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala canon of award-winning, beloved literary adaptations and cross-cultural period dramas lasted more than four decades, and in the middle sits 1981’s mostly forgotten “Quartet,” based on Jean Rhys’ 1928 novel, and not unlike one of the lonely, marginalized figures from Rhys’ many sad tales of untethered, ill-treated young women.
May 16, 2019