Movies: James Ivory

Mong just moved to New York from China to take over the family laundry shop. Both her professional and social lives are affected when she finds out about an affair happening in the building where she works....

An American named Alexander Fox begins an idyllic new life in the tiny sovereign state of Andorra after a personal tragedy, determined to reinvent himself. But as he becomes entangled in the lives of the mysterious locals, including the retired Austr...

A documentary about making The Remains of the Day....

This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at nothing to possess them. Peggy Ashcroft and Larry Pine star as two rapacious art collectors who come...

On the birthday of her late father, a deposed Maharaja, a displaced Indian princess living in London and his former private secretary watch home movies and reminisce about royal India....

Leonardo, an Italian immigrant living in New York, marries a Latin American woman, Nikki, to obtain the greencard. In the process the two really fall in love, but it seems that "Uncle Sam" will be the last to laugh....

Looks at the musical extravaganzas which constitute the main bulk of commercial cinema in India; in particular at the career of Helen, the undisputed Queen of such sagas, having appeared in some five hundred since 1957. Excerpts from some of her film...

An advertising man, emotionally estranged from his wife and those around him, has seduced and then fired and discarded his secretary. She pursues him and forces him to confront the squalor of his life....

Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music....

Historical context for The Remains of the Day....

Visual images consist entirely of Indian miniature paintings, while an off-screen narrator traces the rise of this art form within the courts of Akbar (1542-1605), who united what is now India and Pakistan, and his son Jahangir (1569-1627). Two schoo...

Nirad C. Chaudhuri expounds his views on culture, history, religion and society from a comparative perspective....

Award-winning filmmaker James Ivory recounts his life as traveler, outsider, and artist during a trip to Afghanistan in 1960....

A comedy short film with James Ivory....

Based on the play by William Shakespeare....

The documentary will feature such frequent Ivory collaborators Emma Thompson , Helena Bonham Carter and Hugh Grant, as well as director Wes Anderson. The documentary will also draw from never-before-seen archival footage, film clips, vérité sequence...

An in-depth documentary on renowned film producer James Ivory, co-founder of globally acclaimed Merchant Ivory Productions....

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Ivory's initial effort as a filmmaker was Venice: Theme and Variations, a documentary made as his master's thesis at the USC film school that, although only 28 minutes long, is rich in composition and aesthetic texture....

A documentary of Delhi, it scans the city's historic past that includes successive Afghan, Moghul, and English invasions, while it reveals its variegated life of the present....