| Helena Bonham Carter in the Merchant Ivory film 'Howards End', which has been digitally restored |
Howards End's James Ivory: 'I don't have some morbid preoccupation with detail for the sake of detail'
It's time to see beyond the frocks of Merchant Ivory films with the rerelease of 'Howards End', which has undergone a digital 4K restoration overseen by the director
Tuesday 25 July 2017 16:15
Merchant-Ivory’s Howards End (1992) is being given a major rerelease in British cinemas this month, 25 years on from its original release.
As it hits our screens again it is easy to forget just how polarising and contentious Merchant Ivory’s work once seemed. These films, produced by Ismail Merchant and directed by James Ivory, were a mainstay of British cinema at a time when the UK industry was in a parlous state during the mid to late 1980s and early 1990s.