Returning to Howards End

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.

[@jimjimgl3]

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.

[@janejohnstone5795]

One of the best movies of all time...beautiful houses,scenery, actors....and story..

[@haret0n]

i just re read the book and watched the film again. both are brilliant. timeless. full of beauty and wisdom

[@ToniNYY]

One of my top 3 movies I ever watched. Film is surreal!

[@reinadegrillos]

I loved this movie, I've seen it many times, and always find something new in it.

[@Theranchhouse1]

Love them all.....All the Ivory / Merchant movies are fantastic.... Cannot wait !

[@Cassander_von_Quitzow]

One of my most favourite movies! Everything is quite perfect. I could watch it every month.

[@JustAThought155]

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!!!

[@clips001ify]

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.

[@lukasmiller486]

I wish they had interviewed Emma Thompson for this documentary since she played the lead and won an Oscar for it.

[@marysmyth8288]

One of my most adored films with fabulous Venessa Redgrave , Cannot get enough of Howard’s End Mary Canada 🇨🇦

[@speedracer2841]

This film is a rollercoaster of elegance, good taste, refinement.

[@krisushi1]

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.🇦🇺💖👩🏼‍🎨

[@jpm199]

Just now have i watched it goddamn greatest thing I've seen in a long time

[@blackkittens.]

One of my favourites, never forgot it after seeing it at the cinema all those years ago. I found a dvd copy in an op-shop last year and grabbed it ♡

[@beverlycongelliere1215]

I absolutely adore this movie love love love the movie!❤️

[@victoriaparker9277]

Mr Ivory, I love your film Howards End.

[@claireinglis889]

This is a wonderful interview, such humility and intellect.

[@kathleenstetler609]

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.

[@Jegiro]

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.

[@offthecuff1966]

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...

[@duantorruellas716]

I've seen all 3 films and I loved them. I love period films , especially british period pieces . Great interview , many thx.

[@StMeadMary]

Literally heaven watching this -- yes, richer and sharper. Howard's End love it x

[@michaeltres]

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.

[@timothyj1966]

and a beautiful home it is ...So glad it wasn't demolished

[@eduardoramirezjr4403]

Thank goodness. Its a beautiful home and neighborhood.

[@1minigrem]

I am so relieved to read this.

[@elizabeths4371]

I'm assuming it's Listed and protected as a Heritage Building.

[@vintagebrew1057]

Samuel West was superb as the clerk...

[@robertjackson6424]

The E M Forster years; best adaptations ever. Class.

[@jamesko220]

Watching on May 1st 2021. Beautiful!

[@kelleydupuis1059]

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.

[@evelynbyrd4961]

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

[@monicastordeur8683]

Fascinating interview, novel, and film.

[@Britgirl58]

that was so very enjoyable - thank you

[@themetalgardener4960]

The newer miniseries is nice but this version is just a bit more magical.

[@timothyhopkins6960]

Just wonderfully interesting talk about an exceptional book and what was made of it.

[@megenberg8]

for a kitty, you are most insightful. thank you for your precocious statement!

[@ag-xk6iv]

This is a beautiful movie and so well done. I have seen it many times. However, always at the end I am left thinking about Mrs. Bast. Everything ends up rosy for the Schiegels but she is not mentioned again. Was Forster saying something about the society by with this disregard? Surely she had to return to the streets.

[@yourmother2739]

MY CONCERN ALSO.

[@poorthing]

I want to live at Howard's End.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

tough

[@poorthing]

@@Marcel_Audubon wow. You are nasty, full of negativity.

[@SecretSquirrelFun]

Me too, do you want to go halves?🙂🐿

[@Marcel_Audubon]

@@poorthing first day on the internet, sweetpea? that's your idea of nasty and full of negativity? truly laughable

[@poorthing]

@@Marcel_Audubon every comment you make is negative. Everyone else is just lovin on the film, buttercup.

[@diannadarling699]

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

[@p_nk7279]

He’s right about that car scene - it is so vivid in the book. I thought it was in the film!! I guess it’s not.

[@Autostade67]

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'.

[@maryg6247]

👏👏👏

[@mteresavaldes2251]

Vanessa Redgrave reminds of a Pre Raphaelite beauty

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

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.

[@tinsel-pants]

I absolutely adore the latest BBC adaptation!

[@Girl-rj3qe]

@@tomkent4656I dont think Remains deserves to be compared since it’s not adapted from EM Forster

[@johntuffin3262]

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.

[@marcowen1506]

The uncertainty is deliberate, Forster was a master.

[@p_nk7279]

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!

[@petostacy1771]

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.

[@bernie4268]

I hope Vanessa was at least nominated for the Oscar? Wasn’t she truly Ruth Wilcox? A masterpiece. I wonder what lesser movie robbed it of the Oscar.

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

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.

[@plaster.art.ho3]

Is this worth watching? Like what issit abt

[@VLove-CFII]

Did Vanessa Redgrave really add anything to the film? She wanted her salary doubled before she took the role.

[@MadmanGoneMad2012]

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. 😂

[@clairenoon4070]

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.

[@indigopeas4047]

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.

[@kahkah1986]

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.

[@tomkent4656]

Kaddish seems to like the sound of his own voice too much.

[@janejohnstone5795]

Costumes...make the movie...

[@hotoneinspai]

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 .

[@pauloxborrow5523]

Simpsons in Piccadilly is now a bookshop, but Simpsons in the Strand is the famous and still open restaurant

[@jennelynnatividad464]

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).

[@robertjackson6424]

Simpsons on The Strand is fabolous. Gordon Ramsay I think. But the roast and full English are spectacular.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

James Wilby was one of the worst actors in the history of film. How did he keep getting parts? nepotism? blackmail? anyone know?

[@poorthing]

Another negative comment from you. Glad you aren't a casting director.

[@VLove-CFII]

What part did he play ....Charles Jr?

[@poorthing]

@@VLove-CFII yes, Charles Wilcox. He plays an A hole very well.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

@@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.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

@@VLove-CFII it's hard to tell what part he played coz he plays the exact same character in every film he's in.