Jill Forbes

Dec 6, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Alex Davidson |Jill Forbes |Alex Ramon |Rogan Graham |Rōgan Graham

Despite its name, Stephen Soucy’s new documentary Merchant Ivory focuses not just on the hugely successful partnership (personal, as well as professional) between producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, best known for their period dramas and literary adaptations, such as A Room with a View (1985), Howards End (1992) and The Remains of the Day (1993).

Dec 4, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Jill Forbes |Alex Ramon |Rogan Graham |Rōgan Graham |Sam Wigley

Ian McEwan first became well known as an author of short stories with the publication of First Love, Last Rites (1975) and In Between the Sheets (1978) and of novels with The Cement Garden and The Comfort of Strangers. His writing has been described as ‘shocking’ and ‘morbid’; his fiction has a pronounced interest in perversity arid depravity and specialises in the portrayal of private worlds such as those created by lovers and children.