James Ivory – MRQE

3 by Cheever: The 5:48 (TV)

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Five Forty-Eight, drawn from a Cheever story about the fictional New York suburb of Shady Hill, concerns an advertising man, John Blake (Laurence Luckinbill), who is emotionally estranged from his wife and those around him. His disturbed secretary, Miss Dent (Mary Beth Hurt), whom he has seduced and then fired and discarded, pursues him harrowingly, and in a final scene in which she holds him at gunpoint in a field beyond the Shady Hill railroad station, she forces him to confront the squalor of his life.

Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie’s Pictures (TV)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at nothing to possess them. Peggy Ashcroft and Larry Pine star as two rapacious art collectors who come to the decaying Art Deco palace of a young Maharaja (Victor Banerjee) to examine a legendary collection of Indian miniature paintings. While vying with each other to get the pictures away from the royal couplenicknamed Georgie and Bonnie as children by their Scottish governessthey must also divine the true motives of the Indian curator of the collection (Saeed Jaffrey), who, in league with the Maharajas beautiful sister (Aparna Sen), may be working against them. Amidst the backdrop of lavish tourist entertainments, Christmas parties, fireworks, and even an English ghost, a desperate game of palace intrigue will determine the ultimate resting place of the priceless paintings.

Quartet

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When her husband’s arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.

Savages

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A tribe of primitive “mudpeople” encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following it, they find themselves on a vast, deserted Long Island estate. Entering, they begin to become civilized and assume the stereotypical roles and dress of people at a weekend party. There follows an allegory of upper-class behavior. At last, they begin to devolve toward their original status, and after a battle at croquet, they disappear into the woods.

The City of Your Final Destination

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund – his brother, widow, and younger mistress – so he can get authorization to write the biography.

The White Countess

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1930s Shanghai, ‘The White Countess’ is both Sofiaa fallen member of the Russian aristocracyand a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat, who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.

Le Divorce

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.

The Guru

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Britain’s top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan.

The Golden Bowl

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal, “The Golden Bowl” tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower and his sheltered daughter, both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful American expatriate and an impoverished Italian aristocrat, are entangled with one another in a romantic intrigue of seduction and deceit.

A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience health problems. Living in France with his wife, daughter, and an adopted son, the family travels an unconventional road which casts them as outsiders to others. Preaching a sexual freedom, his daughter’s sexual discovery begins at an early age and betrays her when the family moves to Hanover in America. Her overt sexuality clashes with the values of her teenage American peers and gives her a problematic reputation. Meanwhile, her brooding brother copes with his own interior pain regarding his past, only comfortable communicating within the domestic space.