A Room with a View (1986)
Directed by James Ivory
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
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In the end, their film might not be in the same vaulted league as such classic romantic period pieces as James Ivory’s “A Room With a View” (1985) or Martin Scorsese’s “The Age of Innocence” (1993), but “Far From the Madding Crowd” is one the most satisfying, finest romantic period dramas to grace screens, big or small, in awhile.
My thoughts keep drifting to the vivacious spirit of James Ivory's "A Room with a View" and Ang Lee's "Sense and Sensibility," which didn't suffocate the comedy from the productions, laden with cinched bodices and delicately situated pince-nez as they are.
I can't help but wish this new "Far From the Madding Crowd" came with the thrill of interpretive discovery, the way Jane Campion gave Henry James' "Portrait of a Lady" a good shaking-up or, more conventionally, the way James Ivory mainstreamed E.M. Forster in "A Room With a View" and "Howards End."
Embracing the spirit, if not the letter of Aciman’s novel, Guadagnino and co-writers Walter Fasano and James Ivory (of the Merchant Ivory dynasty that brought us “Maurice” and “A Room With a View”) have resituated the action ever so slightly to Lombardy.
If you ever wondered how a movie would look and sound as directed by Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) and scripted by James Ivory (A Room With a View), the answer is this: precisely like nothing else.
James Ivory adapted the André Aciman book, and the combination of chilly repression and warming desire in Call Me by Your Name make it feel like an heir to Ivory’s A Room with a View.
Scripted by the great James Ivory (veteran director of classics like A Room With a View and Howard’s End), from a 2007 novel by Italian-American writer André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name follows the relationship between the 17-year-old son of a globe-trotting academic, and the 24-year-old American grad student hired as his father’s research assistant.
It’s tempting to speculate how Ivory, who, as the director of “ A Room with a View ” (1985) and of “ Maurice ” (1987), showed his mastery of Italian settings and of same-sex romance, might have fared at the helm of the new film.
In Call Me By Your Name, Guadagnino partners with screenwriter James Ivory of Merchant Ivory fame (A Room With a View and The Remains of the Day), who adapts a novel by André Aciman that’s set in the 1980s in Northern Italy and details the lazy summer fling between the teenage boy Elio (Timothée Chalamet), on the cusp of manhood, and Oliver (Armie Hammer), a graduate student/research assistant helping Elio’s father (Michael Stuhlbarg) work on an excavation of priceless and quite sensual artifacts.
“My Policeman” is fiction, but not entirely: It’s adapted from Bethan Roberts’ novel, which was inspired by the novelist E.M. Forster (“A Room with a View,” “Howards End”) and his secret romance with Bob Buckingham, a married policeman.
“Sherlock Holmes” makes use of Oscar-winning director of photography Philippe Rousselot (“A River Runs Through It”), Oscar-nominated production designer Sarah Greenwood (“Atonement,” “Pride & Prejudice”), Oscar-winning costume designer Jenny Beavan (“A Room With a View”) and music by Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer (“The Lion King,” “Gladiator”).
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He imports his own lush visual style, using his trademark ability to make breathtakingly beautiful photography edgy and dark, as though A Room with a View had been shot by David Fincher.
The supporting cast features a number of familiar British faces, including an exuberant Simon Callow (A Room with a View).
The film includes stellar supporting performances from Simon Callow ( A Room With a View , Shakespeare in Love , Kristin Scott Thomas ( The English Patient ) and Rowan Atkinson ( Bean , Johnny English ).
Their " Howards End ," " A Room with a View " and " The Bostonians " know this world.
Pictures such as Shakespeare Wallah, The Europeans and The Bostonians (all scripted, like the vast majority of theirs works, by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala) earned appreciative ink, but the tony outfit's breakthrough production was A Room with a View, an adaptation (by Jhabvala, natch) of the E.M. Forster novel.
In the spirit of their exquisitely detailed screen adaptations of such literary works as The Europeans and The Bostonians, the creative triumvirate of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala have fashioned a delightfully entertaining comedy of manners based on E. M. Forster's 1908 novel.
Their other recent credits include " The Bostonians ," " The Europeans " and " Heat and Dust ."
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Following in the wake of their acclaimed screen adaptation of A Room with A View, the team of director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant have turned to another E.M. Forster work to create Maurice.
This is the first film from the team of James Ivory and Ismail Merchant since " A Room with a View ," and is based once again on a novel by E.M. Forster.
It is set in pre-World War I Britain, and Forster's observation of prim and preposterous behavior has been polished to perfection by Ivory and his producer-partner Ismail Merchant of "A Room With a View."