James Ivory
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
The main part of his few movies were filmed in the quarter of a century
in which he worked closely together with the Indian producer
Ismail Merchant and the German writer
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. His first
films are all set in India and are very much influenced by the style of
Satyajit Ray and
Jean Renoir. After this period, he filmed
three stories in New York and then dedicated his work to the great
works of the English literature which made him internationally famous.
Examples of this period are
The Europeans (1979) and
The Bostonians (1984) by
Henry James,
Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
by Jane Austen,
Quartet (1981) by
Jean Rhys or
A Room with a View (1985) and
Maurice (1987) by
E.M. Forster.
