It will be for the screenplay of Call me by your name by Luca Guadagnino with which he won the Oscar (it is one of the most loved films by young people) or who knows what else: to see the Petrassi hall of the Auditorium of the Rome Film Festival sold out with an audience of young people waving to the 94-year-old master of Camera con Vista, is the real news of James Ivory's masterclass, a lifetime achievement award.
The cinema lesson ended with autographs and selfies in front of a prepared audience who had 'recovered', in their own words, almost symbolic films, for another generation such as Room with a View (1985) with a barely adult Helena Bonham Carter or Quel that remains of the day (1993) with an almost rookie Hugh Grant alongside the holy monster Anthony Hopkins with Emma Thompson.
Really a mystery.
The American director of Berkley who is very often called English, for the many famous films of sentiment, British countryside, period costumes, told about his long career, a lot of which in a company with the Indian Ismail Merchant - the independent company longest-lived in the world of cinema, even present in the Guinness Book.
The Indian films, the American ones, then in Europe between Italy and England, Ivory does not deny that he made a cinema '' with a tourist gaze '', and then returned home, New York or Oregon.
"With Ismail we have been travelers of images and cultures through stories of feelings, with people at the center as well as environments that are always very important" and a theme often dealt with as opposed homosexuality (see Maurice).
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considered a master of literary adaptations: Kazuo Ishiguro, EM Foster, Jean Rhys, Henry James (like The Bostonians for example with Vanessa Redgrave and Christophe Reeve) to name but a few.
"They label me with England but the beauty is that as a young man I dreamed of Italy and France. On the road to the United Kingdom the English people I met in India put me, that was my training passage. gold of the Merchant-Ivory company, the stars competed to enter their refined films, a special touch evidently intact still today. (ANSA).
Italy and France.
On the way to the UK they put me the English people known in India, that was my training passage.
In the golden years of the Merchant-Ivory company, stars vied to get into their refined films, a special touch evidently intact even today.
(HANDLE).
Italy and France.
On the way to the UK they put me the English people known in India, that was my training passage.
In the golden years of the Merchant-Ivory company, stars vied to get into their refined films, a special touch evidently intact even today.
(HANDLE).