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James Ivory in Conversation: How Merchant Ivory Makes Its Movies Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition
by Long, Robert Emmet
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- Title James Ivory in Conversation: How Merchant Ivory Makes Its Movies
- Author Long, Robert Emmet
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 350
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press
- Date 12/11/2006 12:00:01
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # mon0003504702
- ISBN 9780520249998 / 0520249992
- Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 8.74 x 5.8 x 0.85 in (22.20 x 14.73 x 2.16 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004022679
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.430
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Robert Emmet Long: Merchant Ivory is known to be the independent film production team of the last few decades, achieving its success on its own, outside the Hollywood studio system-or maybe in defiance of it.
From the rear cover
"From sensitive enfant terrible to playful elder statesman, James Ivory has carried a delicate candle of pure hedonism through the violent decades, sheltering it from every hostile wind which sought to extinguish it. One of the few to whom one can unhesitatingly apply the phrase "citizen of the world," he has spent a lifetime scattering beautiful moments across the continents."--Wallace Shawn
"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. Offering precious insights into how the cinematic cultures of Europe, Asia and America, of Arthouse and Hollywood, came to be blended into a ravishingly beautiful body of work, Ivory also draws for us a vivid picture of what it really feels like to put together an independent movie. But perhaps most striking is the way this book illuminates the human face of film-making, and becomes a touching testament to the deep friendships - the bonds of trust, affection, professional respect - that have made possible the unique triumph that is Merchant Ivory."--Kazuo Ishiguro
"Robert Emmet Long's James Ivory in Conversation transforms what might have been a routine Q & A into a lucid film history told from the unostentatious matter-of-fact viewpoint of that least narcissistic of productive and creative directors, James Ivory, with 25 films to his credit in a career that has spanned more than 40 years. He has become almost inseparably linked with producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Jhabvala to form the most famous collaborative troika in film history. As Mr. Ivory's perceptively assiduous Boswell, Mr. Long deserves much of the credit for the felicitous outcome of the project. This is a must-read for all venturesome cineastes, particularly as a counterweight to all the reverse snobbery heaped upon the troika for succeeding commercially with serious and tasteful literary adaptations into film."--Andrew Sarris
"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. Offering precious insights into how the cinematic cultures of Europe, Asia and America, of Arthouse and Hollywood, came to be blended into a ravishingly beautiful body of work, Ivory also draws for us a vivid picture of what it really feels like to put together an independent movie. But perhaps most striking is the way this book illuminates the human face of film-making, and becomes a touching testament to the deep friendships - the bonds of trust, affection, professional respect - that have made possible the unique triumph that is Merchant Ivory."--Kazuo Ishiguro
"Robert Emmet Long's James Ivory in Conversation transforms what might have been a routine Q & A into a lucid film history told from the unostentatious matter-of-fact viewpoint of that least narcissistic of productive and creative directors, James Ivory, with 25 films to his credit in a career that has spanned more than 40 years. He has become almost inseparably linked with producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Jhabvala to form the most famous collaborative troika in film history. As Mr. Ivory's perceptively assiduous Boswell, Mr. Long deserves much of the credit for the felicitous outcome of the project. This is a must-read for all venturesome cineastes, particularly as a counterweight to all the reverse snobbery heaped upon the troika for succeeding commercially with serious and tasteful literary adaptations into film."--Andrew Sarris