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	Ismail Merchant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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].
		In 1963, MIP premiered its first production, The Householder, based upon a novel by Jhabvala (she also wrote the screenplay).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ismail_Merchant (626 words)

	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 (248 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?file=/c/a/2006/01/15/PKGC2GHVIN1.DTL&type=printable (1031 words)

	James Ivory \| Profiles \| tobyyoung.co.uk
		James Ivory was born in 1928 in Berkeley, California, the son of a well-to-do entrepreneur who founded the Ivory Pine Company in Klamath Falls, Oregon.
		The Merchant Ivory company has gone on to produce over 30 films and is in 'The Guinness Book of Records' as the longest film partnership in history.
		Ivory readily admits that their E.M. Forster adaptations appeal to snobs, but claims this is inevitable given that they are set in Edwardian England.
	www.tobyyoung.co.uk /339/james-ivory.html (2224 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Ismail Merchant, half of Merchant-Ivory filmmaking duo, dies at 68
		Merchant died surrounded by family and friends at a hospital in London, Merchant Ivory Productions said.
		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 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 (440 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
		But Ismail Merchant, born and brought up in Mumbai, who bulldozed his way into an utterly alien land (New York) pursuing a single-minded dream (filmmaking), is surely one of the pioneers of this genre, making a mark for himself long before India became saleable.
		Merchant Ivory Productions shot to international fame with period pieces adapted from literature — A Room with a View, Howard’s End and The Remains of the Day, and that is what most contemporary audiences are likely to remember.
		Merchant’s brushes with dignitaries of the film, political and literary worlds are well documented through these.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1031003/asp/opinion/story_2418421.asp (530 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.
		Merchant Ivory Productions began in 1961 with the meeting of the two men - already working as film-makers - en route for the Cannes Film Festival.
		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.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/1831233.stm (753 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)

	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)

	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.
		In the decades that followed Ivory perfected the art of filming in high style on relatively low budgets (and became his crew's favorite cook in the process) with films including Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980), Quartet (1981), Heat and Dust (1983), The Bostonians (1984), and the breakthrough film A Room with a View (1986).
	www.amctv.com /article?CID=1410-1--0-16-ES (474 words)

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		The diversity of Merchant Ivory’s cultural roots is evident in the range of locations in which their movies have been shot: Delhi, Bombay, and Benares; London, Paris, and Florence; New York, New England, and Texas.
		Merchant Ivory is best known for period pieces ("The Remains of the Day") and excursions to India ("The Householder," "Bombay Talkie").
		Ismail Merchant, the gay filmmaker who made costume dramas such as "Howard's End," "A Room with a View" and "The Remains of the Day" with his partner, James Ivory, died Wednesday at the age of 68.
	www.lycos.com /info/james-ivory--ismail-merchant.html (387 words)

	James Ivory (director) Summary
		Ivory directed Jhabvala's original screenplay Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980) for British television, and the screen adaptation of her novel, Heat and Dust (1982) set in India.
		James Francis Ivory (born June 7, 1928) is an award-winning American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
		Ivory was born in Berkeley, California to Edward Patrick Ivory (Irish) and Hallie Millicent (French).
	www.bookrags.com /James_Ivory_(director) (2514 words)

	James Ivory - Films as Director:, Other Films:
		Ivory's independence, his influential involvement with English film, and his sustained collaborative partnership with producer Ismail Merchant invite comparisons with an earlier pairing in British cinema, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
		Ivory's films characteristically trace the formation of community around a common interest—or, more often, a common flaw or a shared loss—and his powers of observation are enlivened by attention to minute details of gesture and a keen sympathy for marginal characters.
		Ivory portrays the widowed Jefferson falling in love with a married woman (Greta Scacchi) and having a sexual tryst with Sally Hemings (Thandie Newton), an adolescent slave.
	www.filmreference.com /Directors-Ha-Ji/Ivory-James.html (1951 words)

	Bollywood - Special Feature - Beyond Dreams: A Conversation with Ismail Merchant
		Merchant Ivory Productions (MIP) has a special essence and meaning in the minds of viewers all over the world.
		Merchant Ivory Productions is a whole team of collaborators, technicians, and colleagues who work together on projects.
		Of course, each of Merchant Ivory productions is dear to me, but these are some films that have given me immense joy in making them.
	www.planetbollywood.com /Features/s021303-175631.php (1619 words)

	Indian-born film-maker Ismail Merchant dies. 26/05/2005. ABC News Online
		Merchant, born in Mumbai in December 1936 and educated in New York, became a household name when he teamed up with fellow film-maker James Ivory to form Merchant-Ivory Productions.
		Merchant's first film was The Creation of Woman, a theatrical short that was not only nominated for an Oscar in 1961 but was an official US entry to the Cannes film festival.
		It was while travelling to the festival that Merchant met Ivory and they agreed to form their partnership, initially to make high production English-language costume dramas in India tapping into funds of US companies in frozen rupee accounts.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200505/s1377478.htm (415 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Ismail Merchant, of Merchant Ivory fame, dies
		According to the British office of Merchant Ivory Productions, the filmmaker died at a London hospital on Wednesday in the company of his family and friends.
		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 (1256 words)

	TV WEEKEND; FILM GROUP IS SHOWN IN A PROFILE - New York Times
		Consider the independent organization known as Merchant Ivory Productions, which is the subject of a profile entitled ''The Wandering Company,'' tomorrow evening's ''Film on Film'' presentation on Channel 13 at 9 o'clock.
		Merchant Ivory was founded as an Indian-American production company that would make English-language films aimed at an international market.
		Ivory manages to make the cogent point that he generally prefers the ''getting on with it'' professionalism of British actors, notably Vanessa Redgrave in ''The Bostonians,'' to the hand-wringing or star antics of Americans, typified by a run-in he had with an actress on the set of ''The Wild Party.'' Mrs.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E6D91238F936A35757C0A963948260 (610 words)

	Merchant of films and feasts : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Merchant discovered cinema on the streets of Bombay but managed to escape the city's limitations and carved a niche for himself in Hollywood and beyond.
		Merchant Ivory Productions, which the spunky, ebullient producer formed with the relatively low-key American director James Ivory in 1961, made films all over the world with actors and technicians drawn from virtually every major entertainment centre of the world.
		It was 30 years after MIP made its first film that Merchant made his debut as a director with In Custody, based on a novel by Anita Desai and shot in Bhopal.
	www.hindustantimes.com /2005/Nov/23/181_1554627,001302000002.htm (784 words)

	The Seattle Times: Obituaries: Ismail Merchant, 1936-2005: Period drama was filmmaker's forte
		Merchant, who was born in Bombay but spent most of his life in the West, had been ill for some time and recently underwent surgery for abdominal ulcers, according to Indian television reports.
		Merchant and Ivory, a native of Oregon, made some 40 films together and won six Oscars since forming their famous partnership in 1961 with German-born screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
		Merchant first traveled to the United States in 1958 to study for a business degree at New York University but soon became involved in the film world.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/obituaries/2002288800_merchantobit26.html (612 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Ivory faces life without Merchant
		Ivory says his late colleague was "very involved" in the editing and completion of The White Countess.
		Ivory is pleased the White Countess is out and the company can try to move forward after Merchant's death.
		Ivory says the film is now unlikely to happen as "they never had a script that Ismail was happy with".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/4826060.stm (691 words)

	Merchant Ivory: News
		Filmmaker Ismail Merchant and rock-n-roll diva Tina Turner chat in a houseboat outside the southern Indian city of Cochin, February 12, 2004.
		On a sparkling April afternoon in the private garden of an elegant house near the Seine, James Ivory had shushed the actors, adjusted the lights and pointed the camera - but he was not about to call "Action!" on a party scene until the bells from a neighboring church had stopped ringing.
		Ismail Merchant and James Ivory announced today that the Merchant and Ivory Foundation will be a long-term sponsor of the Telluride Film Festival's "SHOWcase for Shorts" program, beginning at this year's festival.
	www.merchantivory.com /news.html (492 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.
	us.rediff.com /movies/2005/may/25ismail.htm (543 words)

	Ismail Merchant ‘defined independence’ -DAWN - International; May 27, 2005
		LONDON: Ismail Merchant, the Indian-born film producer who died on Wednesday, made such acclaimed period films, in partnership with Merchant Ivory, as Howards End, A Room With A View and Remains of the Day.
		Merchant Ivory won six Oscars since the pair’s famous partnership began in 1961 with German-born screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
		Merchant said in an interview with the Associated Press last year that their films worked because they told good stories.
	www.dawn.com /2005/05/27/int15.htm (456 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.
		Ismail Noormohamed Abdul Rehman, later Merchant, was born December 25, 1936, in Bombay, India.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/ivory_merchant.html (772 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Producer Merchant Speaks On Film-Making Career
		Merchant, who received an Oscar nomination for best short film when he was only 21, said he was inspired to go into film-making when he saw "Somebody Up There Likes You," starring Paul Newman during his childhood in Bombay, India.
		Merchant expressed the irony of his 33-yearpartnership with Ivory and screenwriter RuthPrawer Jhabvala.
		Merchant is an Indian Muslim,Ivory is an American of Irish origin and Jhabwalais a Jew of Polish descent.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=345518 (473 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)

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