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The irreverent, brilliant memoirs of the legendary filmmaker James Ivory In Solid Ivory , a carefully crafted mosaic of memories, portraits, and reflections, the Academy Award–winning filmmaker James Ivory, a partner in the legendary Merchant Ivory Productions and the director of A Room with a View, Howards End, Maurice , and The Remains of the Day , tells stories from his remarkable life and career as one of the most influential directors of his time. At times, he touches on his love affairs, looking back coolly and with unexpected frankness. From first meeting his collaborator and life partner, Ismail Merchant, at the Indian Consulate in New York to winning an Academy Award at age eighty-nine for Call Me by Your Name ; from seeing his first film at age five in Klamath Falls, Oregon, to memories of Satyajit Ray, Jean Renoir, The New Yorker magazine's film critic Pauline Kael (his longtime enemy), Vanessa Redgrave, J. D. Salinger, George Cukor, Kenneth Clark, Bruce Chatwin, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and Merchant―Ivory writes with invariable fluency, wit, and perception about what made him who he is and how he made the movies for which he is known and loved. Solid Ivory, edited by Peter Cameron, is an utterly winning portrait of an extraordinary life told by an unmatched storyteller.
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"vivid thumbnail sketches of lovers, colleagues, and acquaintances ..."
"Many anecdotes rely on the fact that the reader is familiar with the people who were part of Ivory's social circle (footnotes are included when explanation is deemed necessary.) There is very little discussion of the making of specific Merchant Ivory films."
"However, they, along with the rest of us, may well be charmed and edified by Mr."
"a life that has been anyting but ordinary ..."
"I wasn't expecting his memoirs to be quite such a 'Remembrance of Penises Past' ..."
"it is odd that the second half of the famed Merchant Ivory film ..."
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