Ismail Merchant Movies

Satyajit Ray’s masterpiece the Apu Trilogy is widely considered one of the most important works in cinema history. In 1992, Ray was awarded the...

Documentary about Merchant Ivory Productions, including interviews with the principals of the film production company and actors which have appeared...

A documentary about making The Remains of the Day.

In the time frame of a single day (from dawn to dust), the film records the wanderings of an Indian youth who sleeps on the beach, holds...

Historical context for The Remains of the Day.

Looks at the musical extravaganzas which constitute the main bulk of commercial cinema in India; in particular at the career of Helen, the undisputed...

On the birthday of her late father, a deposed Maharaja, a displaced Indian princess living in London and his former private secretary watch home...

Circa 1940 in Trinidad, still a British Colony, lives Ganesh Ramseyor, of East Indian origin, along with his wife, Leela. He longs to reach out to...

An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.

This short documentary, shot in July 1976 at the Mannes College of Music on Manhattan's Upper East Side, marks the first collaboration between...

Award-winning filmmaker James Ivory recounts his life as traveler, outsider, and artist during a trip to Afghanistan in 1960.

A British family is trapped between culture, tradition, and the colonial sins of the past.

Off-camera, a Western traveler tells us of hearing singing from his hotel window in Bombay. He searches for the source, and discovers a caste of...

In the Mumbai, India, tenement community of Pavanpul, young female courtesans sing, dance and perform sexual favors for male clientele. Directors...

Nirad C. Chaudhuri expounds his views on culture, history, religion and society from a comparative perspective.