It can be difficult to pinpoint exactly what it is about James Ivory’s films that sets them apart from standard issue costume dramas and classic literature adaptations. There’s certainly nothing outlandish or self-consciously unique about them. In fact, it may...
At the start of the early James Ivory film Shakespeare Wallah (1965), filmed in a long tracking shot over a beautiful, ornate table laden with food, a Maharajah (Utpal Dutt), at ease amongst the riches of his palace, relays to...
If you are unfamiliar with words like memsahib, James Ivory’s Heat and Dust, newly restored and in New York and Los Angeles theaters Friday, will provide, at the very least, some anthropological insight. As written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, adapting...