R.I.P. Ismail Merchant

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LONDON - Filmmaker Ismail Merchant, who with partner James Ivory became synonymous with classy costume drama, died Wednesday, his production company said. He was 68.
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Merchant died surrounded by friends and family at a hospital, Merchant-Ivory's London office said.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Dang. My mom will be depressed; she's the Merchant-Ivory freak of the family.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

this is sad.

I saw "Howards End" three times in the theater.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Oof. I met him at the launch of one of his books a few years ago. A friend of mine also worked as his assistant for a good few years.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I really loved Room with a View. :-(((((

― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Sad :( A Room with a View is still one of my favorite movies. Was he the most prominent Muslim filmmaker in the west?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

His last movie was another Ishiguro project. I am anticipating...

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

he made some not-so-good films but his adaptaions of "Howards End" and "A Room With A View" are better than Forster's Novels, imo.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to say, after "Room with a View" they seemed way more interested in furniture and estates than people, except for "A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries," which I liked. I still haven't forgiven them for leaving "Connect, only connect" out of "Howards End."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 May 2005 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the books are better.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 26 May 2005 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

explain 'connect, only connect' to me dr! what's that?
have only seen the film.

love the original soundtrack music to 'howard's end'.

i think 'educating rita' put a whole generation off reading the book but i loved the film. did Merchant have anything to do with
'the remains of the day' ?

― piscesboy, Thursday, 26 May 2005 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

'connect, only connect'... the most quoted line from the novel, in a crucial scene between Margaret and Wilcox.

They botched James' The Bostonians, too.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 May 2005 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

"Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die."

see now i'm still confused.
why should they be connected?
eh?

someone who's studying this Forster guy help me out here.

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

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