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  Henry James - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James is one of the major figures of trans-Atlantic literature.
James wrote many valuable critical articles on other novelists; typical is his insightful book-length study of his American predecessor Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Although these criticisms have by no means abated completely, James is now widely valued for his psychological insight, his masterful creation of situations and storylines that reveal his characters' deepest motivations, his low-key but playful humor, and his assured command of the language.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_James   (1340 words)

  
 James Ivory (director) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Francis Ivory (born June 7, 1928 in Berkeley, California) is an award-winning American film director.
He was educated at the University of Oregon, majoring in Architecture and Fine Arts and then at the University of Southern California Film School.
Ivory was a member of the famous Merchant-Ivory film-making team along with producer Ismail Merchant.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Ivory_(director)   (385 words)

  
 Significant Scots - James Ivory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
How this last occupation, of which he was chief superintendent, coincided either with his previous studies as a theologian, or his predilections as a mathematician, does not distinctly appear; but the result was a failure; for, after fifteen years of trial, the company was dissolved in 1804, and the factory closed.
Ivory underwent was of a more congenial character, for it was to a professorship of mathematics in the Royal Military College, instituted a few years previous at Marlow, in Buckinghamshire.
In consequence of a recommendation of Lord Brougham to William IV., Mr Ivory, in 1831, was honoured with the Hanoverian Guelphic order of knighthood, and a pension of 300 pounds per annum; and in 1839, he received the diploma of Doctor of Laws from the university of St.
www.scotkids.com /history/other/ivory_james.htm   (736 words)

  
 Ivory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
James junior was brought up by his father and step-mother who together had three sons and two daughters.
James junior, the subject of this biography, was educated at Dundee Academy, then at the University of St Andrews, completing his studies at Edinburgh University.
Ivory and Wallace were early supporters of the work of the French analysts, especially Lagrange and Laplace.
www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /history/Mathematicians/Ivory.html   (983 words)

  
 Sir James Ivory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
James Ivory was born on 17 February, 1765, the first son of a well known Dundee clockmaker, also James Ivory.
Ivory was the managing partner but still devoted much of his time to mathematics, presenting four papers to the Royal Society of Edinburgh during this period.
Ivory's premature retiral was brought about by ill health: it seems he was an early sufferer from stress, pressured by the long hours and vast effort he spent on higher mathematical research, in addition to his teaching.
www.dundeecity.gov.uk /centlib/ivory/ivorybio.htm   (562 words)

  
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James said that the distinct fine grain in the ivory revealed that it was made from elephant tusk, one of the many sources of ivory that carvers have used through the centuries.
The ivory laws and treaties passed over the last 30 years were intended to protect the poaching of endangered ivory species.
When purchasing ivory, Lark and Craig both said it is always advisable to have a written statement from the seller that clearly states the ivory sold is not restricted.
www.coupdefoudre.com /Ivory.html   (812 words)

  
 Transcript: James Ivory/Lloyd Kaufman 04/30/99
James Ivory, the director of A Room With A View and HowardÕs End and Lloyd Kaufman, director of The Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke 'Em High.
James Ivory is bow talking about some of the motivations of the actors in the movie, what held the characters together.
Ivory felt about the fact that many of our wonderful politicians, like Gore and his wife Tipper, feel that the movie industry is responsible for violence in schools, especially the films of Mr.
www.time.com /time/community/transcripts/1999/043099ivory-kaufman.html   (1738 words)

  
 Movies Other|   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is, however, Merchant Ivory, who begin their yawning adaptation of The Golden Bowl with this variation on the classic “Now that I’ve got your attention” opening.
James is the epitome of the tell-don’t-show school of narrative, which reaches its rarefied heights in this, his last novel, a masterpiece — or nightmare — of refined sensitivity and second-guessing, abstractions of abstractions and page-long sentences that suddenly end with a question mark and you have no idea why.
Merchant and Ivory espouse the spraying-seltzer-bottle school of psychological subtlety: party guests sliding down staircases on silver salvers, a Nijinsky-esque ballet, a kinetoscopish montage derived perhaps from Jane Campion’s Portrait of a Lady.
www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/movies/reviews/documents/01636284.htm   (740 words)

  
 James Ivory
Born in Berkeley, California, James Ivory graduated from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television in 1957.
Ivory wrote the screenplay along with Michael O’Donoghue and George Swift Trow, but for his next film, Autobiography of a Princess (1975), he stuck to directing and left the screenwriting to Jhabvala.
In February 2002, Ivory and Merchant were awarded the BAFTA Fellowship for the “visual beauty, mature and intelligent themes, shrewd casting and superb acting” in their films.
www.tribute.ca /DIRECTORS/bios/2439.htm   (440 words)

  
 FILMMAKER MAGAZINE | Online Features: A Room with a Golden View
Ivory, by the way, is an American who’s directed such pictures as A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, Surviving Picasso, Jefferson in Paris, A Room with a View, Shakespeare Wallah, The Europeans, The Bostonians, Howard’s End, and numerous other literary adaptations.
He fell in love easily many, many times as an older man but he was never writing from any sort of sense of a happy love affair or a happy life or anything of that kind in which all those kinds of hopes are ever fulfilled.
Ivory: We expected with that film that there would be a lot of criticism of it.
www.filmmakermagazine.com /archives/online_features/golden_view.php   (1334 words)

  
 DGA
Ivory at the 47th Annual DGA Awards banquet on March 11, 1995 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
By singling out Ivory, the Guild has chosen to honor one of the very few current directors to capture the public imagination with a body of work based largely on serious literary sources.
James Ivory is certainly to be counted among our greatest modern directors." Reynolds made the announcement of Ivory's selection at the second annual reception honoring young filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival.
www.dga.org /news/pr_expand.php3?66   (355 words)

  
 NEWS | MAGAZINE | VOLUME 25-5 JANUARY 2001
Though Ivory and James are Anglophiles, like James he is an American, and indeed the native Californian Ivory was educated near the Hollywood studios at USC.
Ivory was his patrician self with Sterritt and the audience.
Ivory collaborates closely with Tony Pierce Roberts, his director of photography, on his last seven Merchant Ivory films on what he describes as a day-by-day, shot-by-shot basis.
www.dga.org /news/v25_5/news_ivory.php3   (566 words)

  
 James Ivory in Conversation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
"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.
James Ivory in Conversation is an exclusive series of interviews with a director known for the international scope of his filmmaking on several continents.
www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/9738.html   (1139 words)

  
 James Ivory takes a stab at American film again
So, it is with understandable trepidation that one approaches Ivory's latest film, "A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries," an adaptation of Kaylie Jones' memoir and an understandably attractive project for the intercontinental director.
While Ivory hints at turning "A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries" into something of a meditation on love, loneliness and loss, these frequent story diversions obscure Channe as the film's central character and lessen the generally intimate nature of the storytelling.
Channe comes into her own and Ivory excels at conveying the awkwardness and confusion of her adjustment to the Western way of life.
www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V135/N10/04-james.10d.html   (695 words)

  
 University of Oregon Libraries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ivory made remarks about his days at the UO and answered numerous questions about his filmmaking career.
James Ivory’s films have won awards from critics, film festival juries, and the movie industries in the United States.
Ivory’s early ambition to become a movie set designer sent him from Klamath Falls to the University of Oregon, where he enrolled in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts and earned his B.A. degree in 1951.
libweb.uoregon.edu /news/stories/ivoryexhibit.htm   (412 words)

  
 University of Oregon Libraries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Award-winning filmmaker and UO graduate James Ivory’s recent donation of papers to the UO Libraries Special Collections is a gift of enormous proportions.
Ivory himself organized and identified the papers—enough to fill 26 storage boxes—providing handwritten notations explaining many of the documents.
Ivory’s early ambition to become a movie set designer drew him from Klamath Falls to the UO, where he enrolled in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, earning his B.A. degree in 1951.
libweb.uoregon.edu /news/stories/Ivorypaperdonation.htm   (343 words)

  
 Henry James-verfilmingen: The golden bowl/James Ivory - de Filmkrant net-versie van februari 2001, nr 219
Alle hoofdpersonen uit zijn grootste en mooiste romans, zoals Isabel Archer uit The portrait of a lady, Verena Terrant uit The Bostonians, Milly Theale uit The wings of the dove en Maggie Verver en Charlotte Stant uit The golden bowl, zijn laatst voltooide roman, zijn mooie, interessante, en intelligente Amerikaanse vrouwen.
Toen James zijn broer schreef wat hij van Engelse vrouwen vond, verwoordde hij niet alleen zijn gevoelens, maar die van Amerikanen in het algemeen.
James was een schrijver, en een groot schrijver.
www.filmkrant.nl /av/org/filmkran/archief/fk219/james.html   (1488 words)

  
 glbtq >> arts >> Ivory, James , and Ismail Merchant
Perhaps the most enduring and influential gay partnership in film history, James Ivory and Ismail Merchant are known for their visually sumptuous period pieces based on familiar literary works.
James Francis Ivory, who is the director in Merchant Ivory Productions, was born in Berkeley, California on June 7, 1928.
Though closeted, Henry James had a number of intimate relations with young men, and his sexual orientation imbued his fiction.
www.glbtq.com /arts/ivory_merchant.html   (772 words)

  
 Merchant Ivory Productions
James Ivory was born in Berkeley, California and educated at the University of Oregon, where he majored in Architecture and Fine Arts.
Ivory’s evocation of the city was named by The New York Times in 1957 as one of the ten best non-theatrical films of the year.
Ivory’s next film was Surviving Picasso, starring Anthony Hopkins as Picasso, Natascha McElhone as Françoise Gilot and Julianne Moore as Dora Maar.
www.merchantivory.com /ivory.html   (508 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Merchant Ivory to get Bafta honour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
One of the film world's most successful partnerships, Merchant Ivory, is to be given one of the UK film industry's most prestigious honours.
James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, the men behind films including A Room with a View and The Remains of the Day, will be given a Bafta Academy Fellowship at this weekend's Bafta Awards, the UK's main film awards ceremony.
Starring Om Puri, James Fox and Sanjeev Bhaskar, it is released in the UK in March.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/entertainment/film/1827438.stm   (403 words)

  
 The Directors: James Ivory
Ivory is on camera most of the time, guiding the profile along.
With their adaptation of Henry James' novel "The Europeans" in 1979, Merchant and Ivory embarked on the kind of film for which they are known today: the period piece that embraces and questions timeless values and human dilemmas.
Ivory demonstrates in this film his acute understanding of the interior worlds of James' characters, a delicate and profound place to be.
vnuemedia.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1926807   (477 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Sleeping Beauty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
James is too young for her and she would be very bad for his golden reputation.
And Ivory writes a halo around his head without ever having to put it so bluntly; he shimmers and shines through the book, and as a reader it was very easy to share Coco's awe of him.
And Ivory does a really good job of crafting her as a sexual creature; she isn't vulgar at all; she uses her skills and experience without ever becoming dominant or manipulative...and that's one great example of exactly how skilled she is.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380786451?v=glance   (2315 words)

  
 REVIEW: "Golden Bowl" Cracked; Merchant Ivory's James Misstep
Director Ivory gave up the first time he tried, and the lovely Uma told me the other day just before she touched my left hand, that the film was the only way people who started the book could find out how it ended.
Unlike other works in the James canyon, "The Golden Bowl" is said to end happily which might be because its author was supremely happy himself at the time.
As for Ivory's direction, for the first time he seems not to have integrated the mansions, and the artwork, and the costumes as he always managed so well to do in the past.
www.indiewire.com /movies/rev_010427_GoldenBowl.html   (723 words)

  
 Biography for James Ivory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Examples of this period are The Europeans (1979) and The Bostonians (1984) of Henry James, Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980) of Jane Austen, Quartet (1981) of Jean Rhys or A Room with a View (1985) and Maurice (1987) of 'E. Forster'.
Ivory studied film at USC and won acclaim for the short documentaries Venice: Theme and Variation (1957) and The Sword and the Flute (1959).
Following Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (a 1978 telefilm), Merchant and Ivory made their first stab at bringing a major literary work to the screen, with a handsome adaptation of Henry James' The Europeans (1979).
amazon.imdb.com /name/nm0412465/bio   (1046 words)

  
 AMCTV.com - James Ivory biography
James Ivory is the directing half of the distinguished and much-lauded producer/director team of Merchant Ivory, purveyors of lushly detailed film adaptations of great works of English literature from the likes of Henry James and EM Forster.
Though born in America Ivory is often mistaken for an Englishman due to his uncanny ability to depict the social mores and class distinctions of early 20th century British society and colonialism.
Ivory has also directed a number of films considered less sumptuous, although still a feast for the eyes.
www.amctv.com /article?CID=1410-1--0-16-EST   (540 words)

  
 University of Oregon News Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Renowned filmmaker James Ivory has donated his personal papers, covering the period from 1947 to 2000, to the University of Oregon Libraries’ Special Collections.
Ivory credits UO art professor Marion Ross and painting teacher Jack Wilkinson with training his eye for visual images.
Ivory’s later partnership with producer Ismail Merchant and novelist-screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala led to the formation of the production company Merchant Ivory, which has released nearly 40 films that have earned 30 Academy Award nominations.
comm.uoregon.edu /newsreleases/2003/20030430B.html   (269 words)

  
 Henry James story of sex and scheming turns musty and mannered in Ivory's hands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Henry James' story of Americans abroad seems a natural for James Ivory, Hollywood's favorite American abroad, with rich guileless innocents and impoverished aristocrats angling for moneyed marriages in a culture of idle rich and empty opulence.
Ivory's direction leaves Thurman some kind of poised, scheming shrew rather than a sad, desperately unfulfilled woman, and Beckinsale a naive simpleton.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
seattlep-i.nwsource.com /movies/23520_goldenq.shtml   (503 words)

  
 James Ivory @ Filmbug UK
Ivory is a recipient of the Directors Guild of America's D.W. Griffith Lifetime Achievement Award.
Last year, Ivory, (along with Ismail Merchant and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala) received the Fellowship of the British Academy of Film and Television, one of the highest awards in film.
Among other films Ivory has directed are SHAKESPEARE WALLAH; the adaptations of Henry James' THE EUROPEANS and THE BOSTONIANS; and HEAT AND DUST, adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from her novel.
www.filmbug.co.uk /db/27257   (490 words)

  
 James Ivory Biography / Biography of James Ivory Biography Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
American director James Ivory (born 1928) has become known for his unrivaled screen adaptations of major classic and contemporary novels, including A Room With a View, Howards End, and The Remains of the Day.
Seemingly destined for a career somewhere in the arts, James Ivory studied fine arts before film, and then made documentaries about art.
Each Biography is written by a biographical expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the individual.
www.bookrags.com /biography-james-ivory/index.html   (217 words)

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