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Book SynopsisThree-time Academy Award nominee for best director, responsible for such film classics as A Room with a View and The Remains of the Day, James Ivory is a director known for the international scope of his filmmaking on several continents. This title features interviews with James. It comments on the many aspects of his world-traveling career.
Trade Review"Ivory is a robust and intelligent man, interested in all sorts of things and a good observer of what goes on around him." - The Times "This series of conversations... informs and engages. Ivory charmingly speaks about a career that includes credits ranging from 'A Room with a View' to 'Surviving Picasso.' He offers insight into his technique and artistic approach, selection of subject matter, choice of actors, and interactions with associates like producer Ismail Merchant and writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.... Illuminating and often humorous." - Carol J. Binkowski, Library Journal "James Ivory is one of our greatest living directors, and these pages, deliciously poised between diplomacy and indiscretion, brim with his vast experience of every nook and cranny of the film world. Offering precious insights into how the cinematic cultures of Europe, Asia and America, of Arthouse and Hollywood, came to be blended into a ravishingly beautiful body of work, Ivory also draws for us a vivid picture of what it really feels like to put together an independent movie." - Kazuo Ishiguro"
Table of ContentsSetting the Scene The Early Years Documentaries, 1952--1972 Venice: Theme and Variations The Sword and the Flute The Delhi Way Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization FEATURE FILMS India The Householder Shakespeare Wallah The Guru Bombay Talkie Autobiography of a Princess Hullabaloo over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures Heat and Dust America Savages The Wild Party Roseland The Europeans The Five Forty-eight Jane Austen in Manhattan The Bostonians Slaves of New York Mr. and Mrs. Bridge England A Room with a View Maurice Howards End The Remains of the Day The Golden Bowl France Quartet Jefferson in Paris Surviving Picasso A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries Le Divorce List of Illustrations Index
