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Thursday, May 26, 2005

Farewell to a man who made classy films of bygone eras

Ismail Merchant, doyen of the film industry, passes away

Thus ends the partnership of Merchant-Ivory and their bevy of beautifully cinematographed offerings. Although Jim Ivory was primarily the one who directed, none of those films with their exquisite depth, talent, and sense of history could have been made without Merchant, responsible for the money side of things...the hiring, the fund-raising, the actual producing.

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