We're about one month away from the announcement of this year's Honorary Oscar recipients. They're usuallly announced at the end of August for a November Governor's Awards ceremony. This year's ceremony will be on November 12th. Last year rumors circled that it was Doris Day's turn but that didn't turn out to be accurate. For the past two years, The Film Experience has tried to make up for the dearth of movie site reporting about the Oscar Honorary careers (beyond the sharing of press releases / YouTube videos of their speeches) with mini-retrospectives so we're always hoping they'll choose well to give us wonderful careers to discuss right here.
Let's reprint a list of worthies we shared a year or so ago, with a few adjustments, in case any of the elites in the Academy are undecided about who to put forth or get behind for these coveted honors.
James Ivory...
Let's reprint a list of worthies we shared a year or so ago, with a few adjustments, in case any of the elites in the Academy are undecided about who to put forth or get behind for these coveted honors.
James Ivory...
- 7/19/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
“I got a call from my agent and he said, ‘Do you know Terrence Malick?’ And I decided I would try to be a smarty-pants and I said, ‘Of course,’ but I had never seen any of his films. I was aware of his name like you’re aware of names like Atom Egoyan or Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, artsy-fartsy films unlike the things I’m in or write.” And so begins comic actor/screenwriter Thomas Lennon's ("Reno 911!," CBS' "The Odd Couple") amazing story to Business Insider about his single day shooting Terrence Malick's "Knight Of Cups." Lennon got the call to join the film for what would turn out to be a full day shooting a party sequence, but true to Malick's form, there was no script, or even details about who the actor would be playing. Instead, it was expected that the actor would improvise in the moment.
- 3/2/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Guy Lodge calls Julia Roberts the Mvp of the all-star cast from "August: Osage County," the upcoming film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tracy Letts play. He contends that she nails the role of Barbara "with searing specificity" and that it "escalates in intensity in perfect sync" with co-star Meryl Streep. He calls it her finest work since winning an Oscar for the 2000 film "Erin Brockovich" but wonders if she will get another nomination because of category confusion. Even though she and Streep are basically co-leads, campaigners are asking voters to nominate her as a supporting actress. Hitfix. In a lengthy chat this weekend at a BAFTA Life in Pictures event, two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson charms the audience with a career discussion. Topics included her collaborations with Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, Richard Curtis, and Ang Lee, plus actors Dustin Hoffman and Anthony Hopkins. She is currently an awards...
- 11/25/2013
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: An intriguing package coming together quickly: Fox Searchlight and Alexander Payne are in talks to next team on The Judge’s Will. Conde Nast Entertainment will produce the film, which is based on Ruth Prawer Jhabvala‘s final published work for The New Yorker before she died. Cne will produce with Ad Hominem Enterprises, the company that Payne runs with Jim Burke and Jim Taylor. Jhabvala, who teamed with Ismael Merchant and James Ivory on so many great films, wrote this story about the final moments in the chess game relationship between an ailing Delhi judge and his beautiful younger Bombay wife. Each has separate lives even though they live under the same roof and as he nears death, the judge wants to be sure that his even younger, barely educated mistress is cared for and not cast out. The story was published in March. As usually happens when he makes a film,...
- 10/8/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the prodigiously gifted novelist and prolific screenwriter, Oscar winner for her adapted screenplays "Room with a View" and "Howard's End," has died in Manhattan after a long illness. She was 85. As the screenwriter for movies by producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory she was for 40 years the hypotenuse of one of the most productive filmmaking triangles in film history. A German Jew who left her native country for England during World War II and relocated to India and then the United States, she was attuned to tales of dislocation and cultural collision. She was a brilliant adapter of novels -- both of her Oscars were for screenplays based on E.M. Forster works -- who distilled the nuance and depth of the source material in under two hours running time.Read the rest of this obituary here.
- 4/3/2013
- by Carrie Rickey
- Thompson on Hollywood
One of the hot properties at Cannes was the film version of Lionel Shriver's bestselling We Need to Talk About Kevin, but it's the rare book that makes a successful film. Here are 5 others that worked.
The next novel to watch as a film is We Need to Talk About Kevin, based on Lionel Shriver's chilling Orange Prize-winning novel, and directed by Lynne Ramsey. A spooky Tilda Swinton plays a mother who wonders what, if any, responsibility she has for her teenage son's murderous rampage, in the film, which had its premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival (early reviews called it "superb" ). Ramsey cowrote the script with Rob Festinger, who also adapted Andre Dubus' short story "The Killings" into the knockout 2001 film In the Bedroom, which was a hit at Sundance and nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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The next novel to watch as a film is We Need to Talk About Kevin, based on Lionel Shriver's chilling Orange Prize-winning novel, and directed by Lynne Ramsey. A spooky Tilda Swinton plays a mother who wonders what, if any, responsibility she has for her teenage son's murderous rampage, in the film, which had its premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival (early reviews called it "superb" ). Ramsey cowrote the script with Rob Festinger, who also adapted Andre Dubus' short story "The Killings" into the knockout 2001 film In the Bedroom, which was a hit at Sundance and nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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- 5/25/2011
- by Jane Ciabattari
- The Daily Beast
For 30 years, a Merchant Ivory production has signaled a particular genre: a period drama of manners featuring genteel characters in opulent settings. These films are often British and based on Henry James or E.M. Forster, nearly always penned by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, more than once featuring Anthony Hopkins. In director James Ivory’s latest project, filmed in 2007, the latter collaborations recur and, although the setting (modern-day Latin America) and source material (a novel by American Peter Cameron) have shifted hemispheres, the look and feel are very much of a piece with Merchant Ivory’s previous films.
Omar Razaghi (Omar Metwally) is an Iranian-born graduate student whose fellowship at the University of Colorado depends on his writing an authorized biography of the deceased Latin American author of one hit book, Jules Gund. Unfortunately, the executors of Gund’s estate refuse authorization. So, encouraged by his bossy girlfriend Deirdre (Alexandra Maria Lara...
Omar Razaghi (Omar Metwally) is an Iranian-born graduate student whose fellowship at the University of Colorado depends on his writing an authorized biography of the deceased Latin American author of one hit book, Jules Gund. Unfortunately, the executors of Gund’s estate refuse authorization. So, encouraged by his bossy girlfriend Deirdre (Alexandra Maria Lara...
- 4/14/2010
- Moving Pictures Magazine
By Susan Granger - James Ivory's first cinematic excursion since the death of his longtime partner Ismail Merchant continues their richly refined, tantalizing and exotic storytelling tradition.
After a young Iranian-American graduate student, Omar Razaghi (Omar Metwally), is refused permission to write the authorized biography of Jules Gund, a little known Uruguayan novelist who recently committed suicide, his assertive American girl-friend Deidre (Alexandra Maria Lara) convinces him to travel to South America to try to get Gund's reluctant executors to change their minds.
After a young Iranian-American graduate student, Omar Razaghi (Omar Metwally), is refused permission to write the authorized biography of Jules Gund, a little known Uruguayan novelist who recently committed suicide, his assertive American girl-friend Deidre (Alexandra Maria Lara) convinces him to travel to South America to try to get Gund's reluctant executors to change their minds.
- 4/14/2010
- Arizona Reporter
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