O diretor de "Howards End" (1992), James Ivory, e o ex-curador sênior de cinema do Museu de Arte Moderna de Nova York (MoMA), Laurence Kardish, conversam sobre o filme em 2016.
The movement of the dress's fabric through the grasses in the opening is really a tour de force of movie making. It established immediately a mood. One of my favorite moments in film and was such an unexpected sequence.
I wanted to actually visit this house after having seen the movie way back in the early 90s. It would be a dream. I saw this year that it had sold a couple of years ago for 7 millions euros. If only I had the money. SIGH...
Nothing like this fabulous movie! Well, except The Remains of the Day! At one point I owned both movies on video; then disc; now I only have “Remains...” in digital format. Merchant & Ivory pulled the BEST out of each actor; they became those characters. Fabulous!!!
Marvelous films that honor the novels and here, we learn how the great screenwriter made some adaptations.I also appreciated the remake of Howard’s End in four parts viewable on Starz.
Having just watched 'A Room with a View', I then went straight for this great work of 'Howard's End' as well. A film that one can never tire of. I'm afraid it's an era of great film making that is long gone. 'A Passage to India', 'Shadowlands', 'The Sting', 'Out of Africa' etc. have faded away. The only great exceptions would be some different films, yet quite watchable in 'A River Runs Through It', 'Legends of the Fall', 'Gladiator', 'Braveheart', 'Michael Clayton', 'Syriana', 'Spy Game' and a few others. For the longest time, I have not been able to say that a movie was truly great and excellently cast. Despite all of the money that James's Cameron ploughed into 'Avatar' and 'Titanic', they were only entertainment and hardly what I would view as great. I have a very eclectic taste in films and can easily enjoy a nicely made film for entertainment reasons, romance, get one thinking or simply to occupy some time. I cannot for the life of me understand why all the current screenwriters of today do is to continue re-make after re-make and ridiculous comic book movies. I could write a better film myself and I gather many other commentators could as well. Everything is all about CGI and the ability to truly act doesn't even matter anymore. We need to continue to appreciate not only the great films, yet the great actors who made them this way. I look back at the films I grew to love in my homeland of Australia of 'Gallipoli', 'The Man From Snowy River', 'The Lighthorsemen', 'The Year of Living Dangerously', 'All the River's Run', 'Breaker Morant', 'Mad Max', 'A Town Like Alice' and a few new films in 'Danger Close', 'William Kelly's War', 'The Water Diviner', 'The Dressmaker' and 'Red Dog'. Australia has become known as a great place to make movies, yet hasn't produced anything of real substance for quite sometime. Just as video killed the radio star, the greed of Hollywood has lead to the demise of any real films. At least technology has given us the chance to re-live the greats whenever we choose. At least we can be grateful for that.🇦🇺💖👩🏼🎨
me too... all the Merchant Ivory productions are beautiful! Interesting that at 90-something James Ivory did the Screen play for Call me by your Name and WON the Oscar! This house is enchanting.
The block in Victoria Square that stood in for Wickham Place is still just as it was in the film. No. 6, the Schlegel's house, sold not long ago for £5.5 million.
So good to see the legendary James Ivory looking so well. I have the utmost respect for you Sir, it would be a great honour to meet you in person. May God bless you.
Oh, Thank you so much for this. I enjoyed it and look forward to seeing Howard's End again. Also, I believe I will look into more of the works mentioned. Very nice.
I loved the movie, but it took me a while to get around to the book. I finally read Howards End in Turkey -- on my Kindle, mostly on the Metrobus in Istanbul, going back and forth. I need to read the book, and see the movie, again.
I was in love with Howard's End. It opened my mind to possibilities and suggestive thoughts and feelings. The characters were all lovely in their own right or wrong, real people with real feelings expressed, sometimes awkwardly. I was just in love with the movie. And the music screamed "love me!" I know they have made a new one, which I have not seen. Can any thing be reproduced, that was so great? That was so brilliant?....e
The 1992 film version is excellent. I'd say it was second only to the "A Room With a View" film adaptation from Merchant/Ivory. The recent BBC adaptation just couldn't match it.
I assumed Mr Ivory was British I need to see in 70 mm in Portland or Seattle I’m sorry that Forster had troubles in his time... I love the politics and human-ness of these stories
Very interesting. As to the omitted scene of Charles’s driving accident, does anyone share my suspicion that he had really run over a child, and not a dog? In the book the dog is suddenly changed to a cat, in the hope that Margaret will become less upset. It has always made me who or what was really killed.
This film and book have more facets than any other , it is the complete film as you can say its indicative of the whole of society and of what makes us human, only other film I can think of that has that feel of, the inability to pinpoint its only meaning, is Thelma and louise, another great movie..I hate it when its talked of as just a feminist film , it is so much more.
This is cool! As to the very first question... letters are not exactly filmable! So they filmed stuff rather than - what - show a letter on screen? I didn’t think that was a great question but it did evolve to some good conversation. I love Howards End!
Yes, Vanessa was nominated for best supporting actress for this film; Marissa Tomei won the award that year for "My Cousin Vinny". Clint Eastwood's great film "Unforgiven" won the best film over "Howard's End" that year.
I have nothing acute against 'Unforgiven' but I still can't believe it took best picture over 'Howards End'. And that Tony-Pierce Roberts did not take the award for Best Cinematography... come on...I've seen 'A River Runs Through It' and though I admire his work in 'Dangerous Liaisons' and think he SHOULD have been nominated for 'Henry and June', I just don't think his work in 'River' trumps Roberts'.
Just to straight things up: Vanessa thought she was being offered the role of Margaret, hence in want of a higher pay. She took the role anyway only to realize much later in the dressing room when she was informed by her hairdresser as she was about to receive the grandma makeover. 😂
Not sure I can agree about Forster having little understanding of the working class, given that one of his longest and most serious relationships was with a police officer.
I agree with you. Being British, being educated at boarding schools out of necessity rather than choice (and therefore being a Leonard looking in at the lives of the Helens & Margarets) and studying this book at A level left me with an impression of Forster’s masterful depiction of the working class being objects of curiosity & playthings for the sisters, rather than equally created human beings simply dealt a different hand in life. Forster’s use of true life grit rather than Disney fairy dust illustrates a better understanding of all the classes for me, not less.
That was in 1930 though, way later than Howard's End (and way later than all his famous novels which were published in his lifetime). This seems to have ended his writing career, as many of his earlier novels seem to have been based around the tension between snobbery and reality. Once he had proved the reality to himself, maybe there was nothing to discuss.
Simpsons ( Department store and Restaurant is or was...on Piccadilly not The Strand... Just a point and anyway it no longer exists. Its a Waterstones book shop now...So sad it was so very elegant .
No, it's still open as a restaurant located in The Strand. At least as of 2019, we were still able to enjoy traditional roast and try the fish pie (traditional menu amazingly unchanged).
@@poorthing possibly, but part of a casting director's job is to say, "no!" to the mediocre. James Wilby would not have made it into any film I was casting. He can't act.
