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Maushard embarks from Boston in his "beast," a dilapidated car that takes him to southern Mexico. His $900 already wearing thin, Maushard makes a valuable friendship with a Nicaraguan franchise operator, Donald, who helps him to the Nicaraguan border. The acquaintance really pays off when this wealthy merchant provides Maushard with the food, shelter and information he needs to survive in Nicaragua's capital city...
They are also the industry's longest-running creative partnership; the Guinness Book of World Records says so. Thirty years ago this month, Ivory began shooting The Householder, which Merchant produced and Prawer Jhabvala scripted from her novel. Columbia Pictures bought the rights for a pleasant piece of change, and the company was launched. But not into the movie mainstream. "Someone else would have gone and made a house in the Bahamas and lived happily ever after," Merchant says. "But we didn't do that. We put the money into our next film." And so on and so on -- dollar...
...triumvirate has collaborated on 15 films, many dramatizing the abrasion of English and Indian cultures: Shakespeare Wallah, The Guru, Autobiography of a Princess. But the best-known Merchant Ivory movies could be called Anglo- English: stately adaptations from Henry James (The Europeans, The Bostonians), Jean Rhys (Quartet) and E.M. Forster (A Room with a View and Maurice). With A Room with a View and their handsomely managed compression of two Evan Connell novels into Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990), the team found a ) fresh, elliptical vigor. Here were snapshots of family scenes that, when flipped briskly, revealed society in bittersweet...
...Howards End, Forster's richest novel, has become Merchant Ivory's finest film. Elegant and powerful, accommodating collisions of class and temperament with the grace of a perfect Edwardian hostess, Howards End is the work to which all Merchant Ivory's other films have pointed and aspired...
...CINEMA Merchant Ivory does thrilling justice to E.M. Forster, again...