Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Nascimento : 1927-05-07, Cologne, Germany
Morte : 2013-04-03
História
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE (7 May 1927 – 3 April 2013) was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant.
After meeting Cyrus Jhabvala in England, she married him and moved to India in 1951; Jhabvala was an Indian-Parsi architect. The couple lived in New Delhi and had three daughters. Jhabvala began then to elaborate her experiences in India and wrote novels and tales on Indian subjects. She wrote a dozen novels, 23 screenplays, and eight collections of short stories and was made a CBE in 1998 and granted a joint fellowship by BAFTA in 2002 with Ivory and Merchant.She is the only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Oscar.
Herself (archive footage)
Merchant Ivory is the longest running partnership in the history of cinema. As a film production entity, Merchant Ivory was founded in 1961 by producer Ismail Merchant (1936–2005) and director James Ivory (b. 1928). Merchant and Ivory were life and business partners from 1961 until Merchant's death in 2005. During their time together they made 43 films.
Screenplay
Omar Razaghi, 28 anos, aluno de doutorado da Kansas University, ganha uma bolsa para escrever uma biografia do escritor latino-americano Jules Gund. Omar precisa passar por três pessoas próximas a Gund - seu irmão, viúva e amante mais jovem - para conseguir autorização para escrever a biografia. Escrito por Maris Gabriella, editado por Krystal Frauendienst.
Herself (archive footage)
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Isabel Walker, americana, vai para a França visitar sua irmã Roxeanne, que está grávida, mas foi abandonada pelo marido recentemente. Durante sua estadia na França, Isabel se apaixona por Edgard, um diplomata francês que é casado e também é tio de sua irmã. E juntamente com Roxeanne, Isabel passa a conhecer a bela Paris e participar de seus acontecimentos e eventos sociais.
Herself
The filmmakers and lead actors of The Remains of the Day (1993) discuss how they came to make the film, and the subtle power of its execution.
Writer
An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal, "The Golden Bowl" tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower and his sheltered daughter, both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful American expatriate and an impoverished Italian aristocrat, are entangled with one another in a romantic intrigue of seduction and deceit.
Screenplay
This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience health problems. Living in France with his wife, daughter, and an adopted son, the family travels an unconventional road which casts them as outsiders to others. Preaching a sexual freedom, his daughter's sexual discovery begins at an early age and betrays her when the family moves to Hanover in America. Her overt sexuality clashes with the values of her teenage American peers and gives her a problematic reputation. Meanwhile, her brooding brother copes with his own interior pain regarding his past, only comfortable communicating within the domestic space.
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Em 1943 o famoso pintor Pablo Picasso (Anthony Hopkins), com 60 anos, conhece Françoise Gilot (Natascha McElhone), que tem 23 anos, sonha ser pintora e idolatra o grande mestre. Ela se tornaria sua amante, mas isto não impede Picasso de ser infiel. Françoise lhe dá dois filhos, Claude e Paloma, e aceita as mulheres dele como parte do relacionamento. Ele, em contrapartida, lhe mostra grandes obras de arte e a apresenta aos grandes mestres, mas a união gradativamente começa a se desgastar de forma inexorável.
Writer
A história de Thomas Jefferson enquanto embaixador em Paris, alguns anos antes de ser presidente, e as especulações em torno de uma suposta amante, a escrava Sally, de apenas 15 anos, com quem teria tido um filho.
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1958. James Stevens (Anthony Hopkins), um homem de idade, em um grande carro antigo começa uma viagem pela Inglaterra em direção ao mar. Por muitos anos ele foi o mordomo-chefe de Darlington Hall, uma famosa casa de campo. Neste época sacrificou sua vida pessoal por vários anos para ter um alto desempenho profissional, reprimindo seus sentimentos e aparentando uma frieza que na verdade não era parte da sua personalidade. Ele está indo visitar Sally Kenton (Emma Thompson), que tinha sido governanta em Darlington e ele não vê há muito tempo. Ele pensa que talvez ela possa ser persuadida a retomar a sua antiga posição, trabalhando para o novo proprietário de Darlington, um congressista americano aposentado. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
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Helen Shlegel se apaixona por Paul Wilcox, mas é rejeitada. Sua irmã Margaret se torna amiga da mãe dele, que promete à ela a casa da família, Howards End. Infelizmente, depois de sua morte, o testamento desaparece. Até que o viúvo Henry Wilcox se torna atraído por Margaret.
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Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.
Screenplay
In London, eccentric piano instructor Madame Sousatzka takes on a new prize protégé, Manek, a teenage Bengali immigrant who displays incredible talent. Manek forms a close bond with his teacher, but soon discovers that she expects her pupils to become disciplined in all areas of life, and not just behind the piano
Screenplay
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
Screenplay
A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter.
Self
Documentary about Merchant Ivory Productions, including interviews with the principals of the film production company and actors which have appeared in their films.
Novel
Anne está investigando a vida de sua tia avó Olívia, cujo destino sempre foi envolto em escândalo. A busca remonta ao início da década de 1920, quando Olívia, recém-casada com Douglas, funcionário público da administração colonial, vai morar com ele na Índia. Lentamente, Olivia fica fascinada pela Índia e pelo governante local, um Nawab que combina a distinção britânica com a pompa e crueldade da Índia. Esse fascínio não é isento de riscos: a região está sendo saqueada por um grupo de bandidos sanguinários, e as intrigas se opõem à comunidade britânica preconceituosa liderada pelo Major Minnies e pelo Dr. Saunders contra o Nawab. Como Anne investiga a história de sua tia-avó, ela é levada a reconsiderar sua própria vida. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
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Anne está investigando a vida de sua tia avó Olívia, cujo destino sempre foi envolto em escândalo. A busca remonta ao início da década de 1920, quando Olívia, recém-casada com Douglas, funcionário público da administração colonial, vai morar com ele na Índia. Lentamente, Olivia fica fascinada pela Índia e pelo governante local, um Nawab que combina a distinção britânica com a pompa e crueldade da Índia. Esse fascínio não é isento de riscos: a região está sendo saqueada por um grupo de bandidos sanguinários, e as intrigas se opõem à comunidade britânica preconceituosa liderada pelo Major Minnies e pelo Dr. Saunders contra o Nawab. Como Anne investiga a história de sua tia-avó, ela é levada a reconsiderar sua própria vida. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
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In the Mumbai, India, tenement community of Pavanpul, young female courtesans sing, dance and perform sexual favors for male clientele. Directors James Ivory and Ismail Merchant blend documentary footage and dramatic reenactments in their exploration of this seamy underworld, the flip side of the Bollywood film industry, where aspiring actors and dancers -- some even sold into prostitution by their own families -- end up, with their innocence lost and their hopes for movie stardom shattered.
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When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.
Writer
Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.
Screenplay
A New England household is upset by the arrival of two cousins from Europe.
Story
This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at nothing to possess them. Peggy Ashcroft and Larry Pine star as two rapacious art collectors who come to the decaying Art Deco palace of a young Maharaja (Victor Banerjee) to examine a legendary collection of Indian miniature paintings. While vying with each other to get the pictures away from the royal couple—nicknamed Georgie and Bonnie as children by their Scottish governess—they must also divine the true motives of the Indian curator of the collection (Saeed Jaffrey), who, in league with the Maharaja’s beautiful sister (Aparna Sen), may be working against them. Amidst the backdrop of lavish tourist entertainments, Christmas parties, fireworks, and even an English ghost, a desperate game of palace intrigue will determine the ultimate resting place of the priceless paintings.
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"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.
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On the birthday of her late father, a deposed Maharaja, a displaced Indian princess living in London and his former private secretary watch home movies and reminisce about royal India.
Screenplay
An English novelist travels to Bombay to watch one of her novels translated to film. She chases after the movie's leading man while the screenwriter chases after her.
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Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan.
Story
The story of a family troupe of English actors who travel around the towns and villages in India giving performances of Shakespearean plays. Through their travels we see the changing face of India as the old is replaced by the new, Maharajas become hotel owners, sports become more important than culture and the theater is replaced by Bollywood movies. Based on the travels of Geoffrey Kendal with his daughter Felicity Kendal.
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Follows the fortunes of a young teacher, Prem, who isn't ready to take on the responsibilities of his arranged marriage.