{"product_id":"james-ivory-in-conversation-how-merchant-ivory-makes-its-movies-paperback","title":"James Ivory in Conversation: How Merchant Ivory Makes Its Movies - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Emmet Long\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJanet Maslin\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Ivory in Conversation \u003c\/i\u003eis an exclusive series of interviews with a director known for the international scope of his filmmaking on several continents. Three-time Academy Award nominee for best director, responsible for such film classics as \u003ci\u003eA Room with a View \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Remains of the Day, \u003c\/i\u003eIvory speaks with remarkable candor and wit about his more than forty years as an independent filmmaker. In this deeply engaging book, he comments on the many aspects of his world-traveling career: his growing up in Oregon (he is not an Englishman, as most Europeans and many Americans think), his early involvement with documentary films that first brought attention to him, his discovery of India, his friendships with celebrated figures here and abroad, his skirmishes with the Picasso family and Thomas Jefferson scholars, his usually candid yet at times explosive relations with actors. Supported by seventy illuminating photographs selected by Ivory himself, the book offers a wealth of previously unavailable information about the director's life and the art of making movies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Ivory on: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the Merchant Ivory Jhabvala partnership: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I've always said that Merchant Ivory is a bit like the U. S. Govenment; I'm the President, Ismail is the Congress, and Ruth is the Supreme Court. Though Ismail and I disagree sometimes, Ruth acts as a referee, or she and I may gang up on him, or vice versa. The main thing is, no one ever truly interferes in the area of work of the other.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Shooting Mr. and Mrs. Bridge: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Who told you we had long 18 hour days? We had a regular schedule, not at all rushed, worked regular hours and had regular two-day weekends, during which the crew shopped in the excellent malls of Kansas City, Paul Newman raced cars somewhere, unknown to us and the insurance company, and I lay on a couch reading The Remains of the Day.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Jessica Tandy as Miss Birdseye in The Bostonians: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jessica Tandy was seventy-two or something, and she felt she had to 'play' being an old woman, to 'act' an old woman. Unfortunately, I'couldn't say to her, 'You don't have to 'act' this, just 'be, ' that will be sufficient.' You can't tell the former Blanche Du Bois that she's an old woman now.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Adapting E. M. Forster's novels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"His was a very pleasing voice, and it was easy to follow. Why turn his books into films unless you want to do that? But I suppose my voice was there, too; it was a kind of duet, you could say, and he provided the melody.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn India: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If you see my Indian movies then you get some idea of what it was that attracted me about India and Indians...any explanation would sound lamer than the thing warrants. The mood was so great and overwhelming that any explanation of it would seem physically thin....I put all my feeling about India into several Indian films, and if you know those films and like them, you see from these films what it was that attracted me to India.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn whether he was influenced by Renoir in filming A Room with a View \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I was certainly not influenced by Renoir in that film. But if you put some good looking women in long white dresses in a field dotted with red poppies, andthey're holding parasols, then people will say, 'Renoir.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the Critics: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I came to believe that to have a powerful enemy like Pauline Kael only made me stronger. You know, like a kind of voodoo. I wonder if it worked that way in those days for any of her other victims-Woody Allen, for instance, or Stanley Kubrick.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Andy Warhol as a dinner guest: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I met him many times over the last twenty years of his life, but I can't say I knew him, which is what most people say, even those who were his intimates. Once he came to dinner with a group of h\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom sensitive enfant terrible to playful elder statesman, James Ivory has carried a delicate candle of pure hedonism through the violent decades, sheltering it from every hostile wind which sought to extinguish it. One of the few to whom one can unhesitatingly apply the phrase citizen of the world, he has spent a lifetime scattering beautiful moments across the continents.--Wallace Shawn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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. But perhaps most striking is the way this book illuminates the human face of film-making, and becomes a touching testament to the deep friendships - the bonds of trust, affection, professional respect - that have made possible the unique triumph that is Merchant Ivory.\"--Kazuo Ishiguro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Robert Emmet Long's \u003ci\u003eJames Ivory in Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e transforms what might have been a routine Q \u0026amp; A into a lucid film history told from the unostentatious matter-of-fact viewpoint of that least narcissistic of productive and creative directors, James Ivory, with 25 films to his credit in a career that has spanned more than 40 years. He has become almost inseparably linked with producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Jhabvala to form the most famous collaborative troika in film history. As Mr. Ivory's perceptively assiduous Boswell, Mr. Long deserves much of the credit for the felicitous outcome of the project. This is a must-read for all venturesome cineastes, particularly as a counterweight to all the reverse snobbery heaped upon the troika for succeeding commercially with serious and tasteful literary adaptations into film.\"--Andrew Sarris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom sensitive enfant terrible to playful elder statesman, James Ivory has carried a delicate candle of pure hedonism through the violent decades, sheltering it from every hostile wind which sought to extinguish it. One of the few to whom one can unhesitatingly apply the phrase citizen of the world,\" he has spent a lifetime scattering beautiful moments across the continents.\"--Wallace Shawn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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. But perhaps most striking is the way this book illuminates the human face of film-making, and becomes a touching testament to the deep friendships - the bonds of trust, affection, professional respect - that have made possible the unique triumph that is Merchant Ivory.\"--Kazuo Ishiguro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Robert Emmet Long's \u003ci\u003eJames Ivory in Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e transforms what might have been a routine Q \u0026amp; A into a lucid film history told from the unostentatious matter-of-fact viewpoint of that least narcissistic of productive and creative directors, James Ivory, with 25 films to his credit in a career that has spanned more than 40 years. He has become almost inseparably linked with producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Jhabvala to form the most famous collaborative troika in film history. As Mr. Ivory's perceptively assiduous Boswell, Mr. Long deserves much of the credit for the felicitous outcome of the project. This is a must-read for all venturesome cineastes, particularly as a counterweight to all the reverse snobbery heaped upon the troika for succeeding commercially with serious and tasteful literary adaptations into film.\"--Andrew Sarris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Emmet Long\u003c\/b\u003e has written or edited over forty books that reflect an unusual versatility, ranging from works on Henry James to James Thurber, from the films of Ingmar Bergman to the Broadway musicals of Jerome Robbins. His book \u003ci\u003eThe Films of Merchant Ivory \u003c\/i\u003e(1997) is the standard work on the subject. \u003cb\u003eJanet Maslin\u003c\/b\u003e is film and book critic for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 350\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 8.74 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 11, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52710166659379,"sku":"9780520249998","price":59.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/WUhSWFpLVUMyQTlDRCtLeWl6bEVmZz09.webp?v=1763485222","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/james-ivory-in-conversation-how-merchant-ivory-makes-its-movies-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}