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	Merchant Ivory Productions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Merchant Ivory Productions (1961-) is a film company founded by director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant.
		Their films were for the most part directed by the former, produced by the latter and scripted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (a noted exception was the 1993 film In Custody, directed by Merchant and based upon a novel by Anita Desai).
		Of this collaboration, Merchant once commented: "IT IS a strange marriage we have at Merchant Ivory...I am an Indian Muslim, Ruth is a German Jew, and Jim is a Protestant American.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Merchant_Ivory_Productions (245 words)

	Ismail Merchant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ismail Merchant (December 25, 1936 – May 25, 2005) was an Indian-born film producer, best known for the results of his famously long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
		Ivory was also Merchant's long-term life partner [1].
		Merchant made his own directorial debut with 1993's In Custody based on a novel by Anita Desai, and starring Bollywood actor Shashi Kapoor.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Ismail_Merchant (636 words)

	CTV.ca - Filmmaker Ismail Merchant dead at age of 68- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
		Merchant, who was born in Mumbai but spent most of his life in the West, was surrounded by family and friends when he died at a London hospital, Merchant Ivory Productions said in a statement on its website.
		Ivory directed and Merchant produced, but unlike other film duos in which the director usually steals the limelight, the two were equal partners to their devoted public.
		Merchant and Ivory were at their best in such literary realms of the past.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/20050525/merchant_ivory_050525/20050525?hub=World&subhub=PrintStory (754 words)

	Merchant Ivory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Producer Ismail Merchant is a Muslim who was born in Bombay and whose family chose, after the partition, to remain in Hindu India rather than move to Muslim Pakistan.
		Typically, Merchant Ivory find more beauty in language than in people, but this Hindi-language film is a hard nut for English-speaking audiences: what little Urdu poetry we hear doesn't come through well in translation.
		Merchant Ivory find themselves standing at too great an angle in Quartet (1981), which despite the name is really about a ménage à trois: Brits-in-Paris couple H.J. and Lisa Heidler (Alan Bates and Maggie Smith) and waif Marya Zelli (Isabelle Adjani), whose husband's in jail.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/98/04/09/MERCHANT_IVORY.html (1680 words)

	The New York Times > Movies > Ismail Merchant, Producer of Sumptuous and Literate Films, Dies at 68
		Merchant was just as likely to be fetching tea for a company member or making one of his celebrated curries for the cast as pitching a fit about cost overruns or schedule snafus.
		Ivory centered their life in a 14-room manor house in Claverack, N.Y., built in 1805 and filled with enough elegant furniture, prints and paintings to be a setting for a Merchant-Ivory film.
		Merchant's ability to finagle spectacle at bargain rates, Uma Thurman, a star of "The Golden Bowl," looked out at the grounds and turreted mansion that he had secured for the shoot and said: "You'd think this movie was three times the budget that he has.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/05/26/movies/26merchant.html?ex=1274760000&en=ed2bcb3619bde773&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (998 words)

	Merchant Ivory solidifies its position as father of independent film
		The Merchant Ivory producer was eager to promote his latest film, "A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries," in which a girl comes of age while living with expatriate parents in Paris in the 1960s and '70s.
		Merchant, meanwhile, travels the world to obtain funding and persuade movie stars to work for a fraction of their usual fee.
		Merchant describes his relationship with Ivory and Jhabvala as sangam, which in Hindi means the sacred meeting of three rivers.
	www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/981023/film.shtml (836 words)

	Ismail Merchant, of Merchant-Ivory Films, Dies
		Merchant was the business and promotional ballast of the trio, and he was revered for his gusto and passion.
		Merchant was confident that the real maharajah, his friend, would have found it amusing.
		Merchant's death, the three were reportedly working on "The Goddess," a musical about a Hindu goddess starring Tina Turner, as well as "The White Countess," a period drama set in China with Ralph Fiennes and Redgrave.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/25/AR2005052501027_pf.html (962 words)

	Ismail Merchant--Biography
		Though the uninformed often think "Merchant Ivory" is one man, Ismail Merchant and James Ivory did not meet until 1960, when Merchant was 24 and the California-born director Ivory was 32.
		It was also Merchant and Ivory's first collaboration with screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who worked on nearly twenty of their most successful (and representative) films.
		As their partnership developed, Merchant and Ivory moved away from Indian subjects and developed a reputation for intelligent, tasteful adaptations of modern literary classics, especially those of E.M. Forster and Henry James.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/2850/ismail2.html (468 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Ismail Merchant, half of Merchant-Ivory filmmaking duo, dies at 68
		Merchant, who was born in Bombay but spent most of his life in the West, had been unwell for some time and recently underwent surgery for abdominal ulcers, according to Indian television reports.
		Merchant and Ivory, an American, made some 40 films together and won six Oscars since forming their famous partnership in 1961 with German-born screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
		Merchant and Ivory departed in recent years from the flawlessly appointed period films for which they were famous.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20050525-1105-obit-merchant.html (454 words)

	'White' Ivory's Last Film With Merchant
		The assumption is understandable: Ivory, 77, and Merchant, who died in May, had cinematic triumphs with Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day," a trilogy of films based on E.M. Forster novels ("A Room With a View," "Maurice" and "Howards End") and their Henry James adaptations ("The Europeans," "The Bostonians" and "The Golden Bowl").
		Ivory was struck by Lewis' collection of Indian miniature paintings -- the colorful, impossibly detailed handcraft that would influence Ivory's filmmaking vision for the next 30 years (the exhibition "Connoisseurship and Commerce: The Legacy of R.E. Lewis" is at the Legion of Honor through Feb. 19).
		Ivory's artistic arrival in India was his passage to one of the greatest collaborations in cinema history.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/15/PKGC2GHVIN1.DTL&feed=rss.entertainment (1044 words)

	Merchant Ivory Productions :: 40 Years of Independent Filmmaking History - Ismail Merchant - James Ivory - Ruth Prawer ...
		It is with great sadness that Merchant Ivory Productions announces that Ismail Merchant, our company founder and beloved producer for more than 44 years, has passed away after a brief illness in a London hospital where he was working on his latest film, The White Countess.
		James Ivory in Conversation is an exclusive series of interviews with a director known for the international scope of his filmmaking on several continents.
		Ismail Merchant takes us on a guided tour of how a middle class Muslim boy from Bombay became an internationally acclaimed producer with a string of award winning films to his credit.
	www.merchantivory.com (180 words)

	BBC News \| FILM \| Merchant Ivory's novel ways
		Merchant, who produces, was born in India while Ivory, the director, was born in the United States.
		Looking over Merchant Ivory's catalogue of work, the cultural diversity behind the company is evident in the range of locations and subject matter of its films.
		Merchant Ivory reunited the two stars in 1993's The Remains of the Day.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/1831233.stm (753 words)

	Ismail Merchant - Ismail Merchant Biography - Merchant Ivory - Filmmaker Ismail Merchant
		Merchant was also honored by the Mayor of New York and received the Marie des Paris for his outstanding contribution to cinema in France.
		Merchant Ivory's most recent autobiographical book is entitled, My Passage from India: A Filmmaker's Journey from Bombay to Hollywood and beyond.
		In 2002 Merchant was conferred the Padma Bhusan by the government of India.
	www.indobase.com /indians-abroad/ismail-merchant.html (446 words)

	Boxoffice Magazine [Howards End (The Merchant Ivory Collection)] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It's marvelously enlightening as to the tightly-knit team that Merchant and Ivory have assembled -- it really is a finely-tuned machine, a fact of which one is constantly reminded by the oft-repeated refrain about how remarkable it is that Merchant extracts so much production value for so little money.
		Merchant, in fact, only Executive Produced this Zafar Hai-directed adaptation of the H.R.F. Keating novel about a Bombay detective (Naseeruddin Shah) working with a Swedish criminologist (Stellan Skarsgard) to solve a case.
		Merchant produced the film, which tells the story of an Englishman (Pierce Brosnan) who goes undercover in 1825 India to infiltrate and undermine the notorious and murderous Thugee cult.
	www.boxoffice.com /scripts/dvd.asp?where=ID&terms=6199 (865 words)

	Last Merchant-Ivory film premiered : Merchant Ivory, film, premiere. : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN
		The duo, Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, were wellknown for making scores of literate, beautifully shot, languid and sometimes erotic films since the mid-60s under the Merchant-Ivory Production banner.
		Merchant pitched in as producer and Ivory as director, and the duo started career by making documentary films.
		Merchant’s demise on May 25, 2005 may have left many a film incomplete.
	www.ibnlive.com /article.php?id=7071§ion_id=8 (522 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - 'White Countess' marks end of Merchant Ivory era
		Their Merchant Ivory partnership is known for elegant period dramas like its 1992 big-screen adaptation of the E.M. Forster novel Howard's End and the Oscar-nominated A Room with View.
		Ivory, 77, was born in Berkeley, California, and met Merchant in New York.
		Ivory is planning a new film, The City of Your Final Destination, based on a novel about a university professor who wants to persuade the family of a South American writer to allow him write a biographical account of the writer's life.
	www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2005/12/22/merchant-ivory.html (1315 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Movies / Merchant Ivory Seeking New 'Heights' of Success
		Although Merchant calls "Heights" an example of the "younger" Merchant Ivory, he also is quick to point out that his company has always worked with young talent.
		For example, Merchant Ivory produced the big-screen adaptation of the 1980s postmodern boho tome "Slaves of New York," by Tama Janowitz.
		Merchant adds that the company's reputation also has helped with budgets as locations and vendors are more than eager to lend their name to such a class act.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2003/11/03/merchant_ivory_seeking_new_heights_of_success (597 words)

	Take 5: Ismail Merchant - Moviefone
		Working in tandem, Merchant and Ivory virtually cornered the market on the mannered parlor drama with films like 'A Room with a View' and 'Howards End,' to the point that the mere mention of their names carries the power to instantly conjure up sounds of rattling teacups and rustling corsets.
		Before his death, Merchant shared with us five films that inspired their film Le Divorce, a Parisian romance set in the present day (it's the only Merchant Ivory film ever to feature a snippet of a 'Simpsons' episode).
		Merchant also produced 'Heights,' an ensemble drama about modern New York relationships from first-time director Chris Terrio, opening later this summer, along with Ivory's forthcoming 'The White Countess,' which opens in November.
	movies.aol.com /feature/take5/merchant.adp (1207 words)

	"Merci Doctor Rey" Reviews
		This meeting led to work with James Ivory on the Merchant Ivory films Jefferson in Paris and A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, and with Ismail Merchant on The Proprietor.
		The Householder was Merchant and Ivory’s first feature length film and the first Indian film to be distributed worldwide by a major American company, Columbia Pictures.
		Merchant is also a renowned chef and author of a number of books on cuisine, including Ismail Merchant’s Indian Cuisine; Ismail Merchant’s Florence; Ismail Merchant’s Passionate Meals and Ismail Merchant’s Paris: Filming and Feasting in France.
	www.mercidocteurrey.com /about.html (1204 words)

	Merchant Ivory Productions :: Ismail Merchant
		Merchant's first film was a theatrical short, The Creation of Woman, which was nominated in 1961 for an Academy Award and was an official entry from the United States in the Cannes Film Festival that same year.
		Merchant's third feature film as Director, Cotton Mary, was set in Kerala, India and starring Madhur Jaffrey, Greta Scacchi, and James Wilby.
		The latest Merchant Ivory Production, Le Divorce, from the best-selling novel by Diane Johnson and adapted for the screen by Merchant Ivory's longtime collaborator, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, stars Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Glenn Close, Stockard Channing, Matthew Modine, Sam Waterston and Leslie Caron and is expected to be released this summer by Fox Searchlight.
	www.merchantivory.com /ismail.html (767 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Ismail Merchant, of Merchant Ivory fame, dies
		Ismail Merchant, the producer of the Merchant Ivory film company, has died at the age of 68.
		Merchant said in an interview with the Associated Press last year that the secret to the success of a Merchant Ivory film is the story.
		Merchant Ivory was also responsible for such films as A Room With a View and The Remains of the Day.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2005/05/25/merchant050525.html (1276 words)

	DVD Times - The Merchant Ivory Collection
		The DVD is released on the 6th September as part of a 'Merchant Ivory in India' boxset.
		One of Merchant Ivory's best films is released in a two-disc set with a good trasnfer and some substantial extras.
		It is also available as part of the six-film Merchant Ivory Connoisseur Collection and the full 20-film box set, available from 6 September.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=12503 (560 words)

	Where's Our Goddamned Merchant Ivory? - Kotaku
		But Merchant Ivory basically makes the kinds of movies that were made 20 years ago fast-forwarded to today, so that doesn't really work.
		Merchant Ivory films focus on drama and visual setting; their best examples are A Room with A View, Howard's End, Remains of the Day, and Golden Bowl.
		We have lots of Merchant Ivory equals, just that gaming is bogged down by a public opinion that equates it to violence and childish immaturity.
	kotaku.com /.../lawsuits/wheres-our-goddamned-merchant-ivory-192687.php (1719 words)

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		Ismail Merchant is the producer of some of the most critically acclaimed films in the history of cinema, including A Room with a View, Howard’s End, and The Remains of the Day.
		Ruth Jhabvala is the writer, James Ivory is the director, and I am the producer, so we don’t have such big egos to fight with.
		The forty-six films run such a gamut, but perhaps the one thread connecting all Merchant Ivory films is that they are an exploration of cultural displacement, the discomfort in cultural boundaries, and the uneasiness of interactions between different cultures and classes.
	www.asiasource.org /arts/merchant.cfm (1502 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Merchant Ivory to get Bafta honour
		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.
		Mr Merchant, born in India, and Mr Ivory, born in the United States, have been working together since 1961 and their films have won six Oscars.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/1827438.stm (399 words)

	Ismail Merchant passes away at 68
		Merchant's first film was The Creation of Woman, which was an official US entry in the Cannes Film Festival in 1961.
		Merchant Ivory Productions was also working on The Goddess, a musical about Hindu goddess Shakti, starring pop icon Tina Turner and with a script by Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost And Found.
		Merchant was a man who believed in making his kind of movies and never bent to commercial interests.
	in.rediff.com /movies/2005/may/25ismail.htm (543 words)

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