As a woman of colour trying to break into film, Merchant Ivory nurtured my career
‘I got you an Oscar. Why do I need to pay you?’ The secret shocking truth about Merchant Ivory
June 2023
Julian Sands: a hypnotically exotic actor full of style and extravagance
Peter Bradshaw
After the smash hit of A Room With a View, Sands’ idiosyncrasies were hard to contain in mainstream movies, but in the right roles he was mesmerising
December 2021
Solid Ivory by James Ivory review – an Oscar-winning film director tells all
Though more focused on flirtations and finery than the craft of film-making, there is much to enjoy in this entertaining ragbag
October 2021
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
March 2021
The stage on screen
Shakespeare Wallah: Merchant Ivory's bittersweet tale of Bollywood and the Bard
The Kendal family of actors star in a story inspired by their travels around India, whose booming film industry upstages their theatrical troupe
May 2019
Other lives
Toon Ghose obituary
Other lives: Flying instructor and civil aviation pioneer
March 2019
Heat and Dust review – a triumph of charm, complexity and hidden depths
This flawed Merchant Ivory gem picks apart imperial and sexual politics to reveal a story of forbidden love – but of what kind?
December 2018
André Aciman announces sequel to Call Me By Your Name
Author of the novel behind Oscar-winning romance says he will return to story of Elio and Oliver, after the director revealed his own plans for a follow-up film
August 2018
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
July 2018
Maurice review – Merchant Ivory’s EM Forster adaptation richer than ever
Hugh Grant and James Wilby star in this intensely poignant story of two young men forced to deny their love
March 2018
James Ivory: why Ismail Merchant and I kept our love secret
James Ivory is oldest Oscar winner ever with screenplay award for Call Me by Your Name
February 2018
Baftas 2018: Three Billboards wins best film and dancing fish-men – as it happened
It’s Shape of Water v Three Billboards v Darkest Hour as the British film establishment gets together for its big awards night
December 2017
Top UK films 2017
The 50 top films of 2017: No 1 Call Me By Your Name
Peter Bradshaw celebrates a peach of a film about ecstatic submission to love –the united No 1 choice of our British and American critics
November 2017
Why is Oscar-buzzed romance Call Me by Your Name so coy about gay sex?
Anita Desai: my literary apprenticeship with Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
October 2017
Call Me By Your Name review – a peach of a romance
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Call Me By Your Name review – gorgeous gay love story seduces and overwhelms
August 2017
Film investors’ fear of the Bard is burying my Richard II, says James Ivory
Veteran director claims financiers think he’s crazy for attempting Shakespeare adaptation
