#775: IVORY, James: A Room With A View (1986)
IVORY, James (United Kingdom)
A Room With A View [1986]
Spine #775
Blu-ray
Blu-ray
Merchant Ivory Productions, led by director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, became a household name with A Room with a View, the first of their extraordinary adaptations of E. M. Forster novels. A cherubic nineteen-year-old Helena Bonham Carter plays Lucy Honeychurch, a young, independent-minded, upper-class Edwardian woman who is trying to sort out her burgeoning romantic feelings, divided between an enigmatic free spirit (Julian Sands) she meets on vacation in Florence and the priggish bookworm (Daniel Day-Lewis) to whom she becomes engaged back in the more corseted Surrey. Funny, sexy, and sophisticated, thus gargantuan art-house hit features a sublime supporting cast — including Simon Callow, Judi Dench, Denholm Elliott, and Maggie Smith — and remains a touchstone of intelligent romantic cinema.
117 minutes
Color
Color
2.0 Surround
1:66:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2015
Director/Writers
Screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
James Ivory was 58 when he directed A Room With a View.
Other Ivory films in the Collection:
#488: Howards End (1992)
The Film
Other Ivory films in the Collection:
#488: Howards End (1992)
The Film
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Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by film critic and author John Pym.
Commentary
None.
Interviews
With Ivory, DP Tony Pierce-Roberts, costume designer John Bright, and actors Carter, Callow, and Sands.
Segment
About Merchant Ivory Productions from a 1987 episode of NBC Nightly News.
Trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by film critic and author John Pym.
Commentary
None.
Interviews
With Ivory, DP Tony Pierce-Roberts, costume designer John Bright, and actors Carter, Callow, and Sands.
Segment
About Merchant Ivory Productions from a 1987 episode of NBC Nightly News.
Trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
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