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A Room with a View

March 2024

  • ‘She’d worked 13 days in a row and Ismail tried to cancel her weekend off’ … Emma Thompson with Anthony Hopkins in Howards End.

    ‘I got you an Oscar. Why do I need to pay you?’ The secret shocking truth about Merchant Ivory

    They were the box-office titans behind sumptuous period masterpieces. Yet underneath, reveals a new warts-and-all film, they were skint, stressed, prone to blood-curdling bust-ups – and ping-ponging between lovers

June 2023

  • Charlotte Higgins

    Julian Sands in A Room With a View: the soulful heart of a brilliantly romantic film

    Charlotte Higgins
    Sands’ performance in the EM Forster adaptation gave a focus to dreamily tragic teenagers who aspired to a more meaningful existence

January 2023

  • Julian Sands attends the 76th Venice film festival in September 2019 to promote The Painted Bird

    Missing hiker in California revealed to be British actor Julian Sands

    Actor, 65, known for movies such as A Room with a View and The Killing Fields, went missing on Friday near Mount Baldy

October 2021

  • ‘We gave each other strength and we made our kinds of films, despite all the misgivings of people’ … James Ivory.

    James Ivory: ‘I keep being asked, was it difficult, your life? My life, if anything, was too easy’

    At 93, the Merchant Ivory director – and oldest ever Oscar winner – reflects on enduring love, delighting in his sexuality and defying film-making expectations

August 2018

  • Charlotte Higgins

    The film Maurice is 30 years old, but its frankness is ahead of its time

    Charlotte Higgins
    The rereleased Merchant-Ivory film depicts gay love with a straightforwardness that few films since have matched, says Guardian columnist Charlotte Higgins

May 2018

  • On Chesil Beach; Victoria & Abdul; A Room With a View.

    Steve Rose on film
    No sex please we’re British: exploring On Chesil Beach's chaste state of mind

    Repressed, stiff-upper-lipped Englishness is en vogue again. But should we be encouraging it?

June 2015

  • Still from the film The Comfort of Strangers with Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson.

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best fictional holidays

    From Salter’s Tuscany to the east coast of England…

July 2014

  • Julian Sands and Helena Bonham Carter in A Room With a View

    Role model
    Why I'd like to be ... Julian Sands in A Room With a View

    Continuing our series in which writers reveal the movie characters they want to emulate, Laura Barton revives her tomboy teen admiration for George Emerson in the 1985 adaptation of EM Forster's novel of Edwardian repression

June 2014

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    Five best moments
    Helena Bonham Carter: five best moments

    Some of the her best performances to date. What others would you add to the list?

July 2013

  • Grease film still

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best screen holiday romances – in pictures

    The finest summer lovers, from Daniel Day-Lewis in A Room With a View to Olivia Newton-John in Grease

April 2013

  • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

    Ruth Prawer Jhabvala obituary

    Novelist and screenwriter known for her work on Merchant Ivory films, including A Room with a View and Heat and Dust

October 2010

  • Julian Sands and Helena Bonham Carter in A Room With a View

    The 25 best romantic films of all time
    A Room With a View: No 9 best romantic film of all time

    James Ivory, 1985

July 2005

  • Adaptation of the week
    A view to a killing

    James Ivory's A Room With a View (1985)

June 2001

  • Video releases

    The Magnificent Seven | Sebastiane | Jubilee | A Room With a View/Howards End

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