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...Remains of the Day, directed by James Ivory, Merchant Ivory Productions, starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson...
...first glance, Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Remains of the Day seems the ideal subject for a Merchant Ivory adaptation. Like many of the E.M. Forster works which Merchant Ivory has produced in the past, The Remains of the Day takes place in the English countryside in a time of lost glory; each of the novel's eight sections, as in E.M. Forster's novels, even assume the name of the locale in which they are set. Likewise, Ishiguro's work is preoccupied with moral questions, just as Howard's End is. Compared to Forster's novels, though, The Remains...
Frank Cardullo says he's seen a lot of changes in his 50 years as a Square merchant. "I'm not sure," he says, "they're for the better for Harvard Square...
...lovely film that James Ivory (director), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (screenwriter) and Ismail Merchant (producer) have made of The Remains of the Day has the hallmarks of their best recent work: the aggrieved passion of Howards End, the acutely drawn sense of loss in Mr. and Mrs. Bridge. They have peppered the story with deft details that illuminate the cottage industry of running a lavish estate: snipped hedges, gleaming doorknobs, decapitated fowl, the Times pages freshly ironed each morning. And they have filled the house with a perfect cast: Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton; James Fox as Lord Darlington; Peter Vaughn...
...sanctions. Among the demands are the retirement of army commander Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, an end to human-rights abuses and the disarming of the "attaches," a ganglike auxiliary police force that has terrorized citizens. At week's end a U.S. Coast Guard cutter fired warning shots at a merchant ship that refused to change course...