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Anthony Hopkins is Stevens the butler, the old bulldog of Darlington Hall. In the thrust of his Churchillian jaw one can read a declaration of honorable purpose; in his blue eyes one can hear the quiet bark, feel the dogged bite. Stevens lives to serve his master and to rule...
Stevens is the narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro's 1988 novel, The Remains of the Day, a drama so delicate that it touches the reader deeply without applying the pressure of sentiment. The story runs on parallel tracks: the years before World War II, when Stevens worked for his beloved Lord...
The 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...
This time Ivory and his longtime colleagues have gone their source one better, or one quieter: the film is even more discreet, more Stevens-like, than the book. They have withheld the revelations of tears and admission of heartbreak that finally clatter around the butler like broken Wedgwood. Here, Stevens...
PHOTOGRAPHY: Richard L. Boeth, MaryAnne Golon, Rose Keyser, Robert B. Stevens (Associate Editors); Kevin J. McVea (Operations); Renee Mancini (Syndication); Arnold H. Drapkin (Consultant); Dorothy Affa Ames, Sarah Buffum, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith-Alam (Assistant Editors); Cristina T. Scalet, Marie Tobias, Mary Worrell-Bousquette (Researchers) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Sahm Doherty...