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Produced by Ismail Merchant...
...unleashed by the painful first love of a young boy and girl in Edwardian England. A Room with a View is that exploration, Forster's sketch of love and anguish sparked on the Tuscan hills and resolved in the English countryside. In the new screen version by the Ismail Merchant-James Ivory team (Heat and Dust, The Bostonians), we are treated to a respectful and intimate adaptation of Forster's touching novel...
...often center on guilty secrets and the way the past reverberates into the present. In The Maul and the Pear Tree, James applies her narrative and analytic talents to the actual: the Ratcliffe Highway murders that took place in early-l9th century London. Although the seven killings in two merchant households were widely publicized and later inspired Thomas De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts," James and her collaborator, Police Historian T.A. Critchley, found that few researchers had scrutinized contemporary accounts and public records. Their own examination unearthed appalling evidence of police ineptitude...
...were the Marcos shoes, like the billions of stolen dollars, merely grotesque? The Russian word poshlost suggests the transcendent vulgarity at work in the Marcos spectacle. Poshlost is something preposterously overdone but without self-knowledge or irony. It is comic and sad and awful. An 18th century French merchant of great wealth named Beaujean came to the same dead end as Marcos with his Swiss gold and his ruined kidneys. "He owned amazing gardens," the historian Miriam Beard wrote of Beaujean, "but he was too fat to walk in them . . . He had countless splendid bedrooms and suffered from insomnia...
...financial crunch has depleted the once proud merchant marines of Western countries. Britain's fleet has shrunk in a decade from more than 1,600 ships to just 614. One reason is the country's high labor costs. A British crew for a bulk carrier costs an estimated $1.5 million a year, vs. only $550,000 for Korean sailors or $275,000 for Chinese...