Ismail Merchant, the Indian film producer who died yesterday at 68, was for more than 40 years one of the most unorthodox but successful independent filmmakers in Hollywood. With his partner James ...

Director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant made 43 films together between 1961 and 2007. They worked with screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and composer Richard Robbins on more than half of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Director James Ivory is profiled in a new documentary about some of Merchant Ivory's seminal movies, including A Room With a View ...

Theirs was one of the longest partnerships in cinema history (1961-2007), almost defining independent filmmaking, that is now being profiled definitively in the new conventional documentary "Merchant ...

Chances are, you can spot a Merchant Ivory production just from a single scene. There's often stunning cinematography, dazzling costumes, star-studded casts, a mature script and a sweeping score, all ...

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Cohen Media Group will give “Merchant Ivory,” a documentary about the professional and personal partnership of director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant and their production company — Merchant ...

LONDON -- Filmmaker Ismail Merchant, who with partner James Ivory became synonymous with classy costume drama in films such as "A Room With A View" and "Howards End," died Wednesday. He was 68.

At height of their fame in the 1980s and 1990s, director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant were a true partnership — on-screen and off. Movie lovers knew them as the two halves of Merchant ...

For those who only know James Ivory as the director of such critically acclaimed films as “A Room With a View,” “Howards End,” “The Remains of the Day,” and other adaptations of literary classics, it ...