A Room with a View
Merchant Ivory Productions, led by director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, became a household name with A Room with a View, the first of their extraordinary adaptations of E. M. Forster novels. A cherubic nineteen-year-old Helena Bonham Carter plays Lucy Honeychurch, a young, independent- minded, upper-class Edwardian woman who is trying to sort out her burgeoning romantic feelings, divided between an enigmatic free spirit (Julian Sands) she meets on vacation in Florence and the priggish bookworm (Daniel Day-Lewis) to whom she becomes engaged back in the more corseted Surrey. Funny, sexy, and sophisticated, this gargantuan art-house hit features a sublime supporting cast–including Simon Callow, Judi Dench, Denholm Elliott, and Maggie Smith–and remains a touchstone of intelligent romantic cinema.
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director James Ivory and cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interviews with Ivory, Pierce-Roberts, costume designer John Bright, and actors Helena Bonham Carter, Simon Callow, and Julian Sands
- Segment about Merchant Ivory Productions from a 1987 episode of NBC Nightly News
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic and author John Pym
New cover by F. Ron Miller
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director James Ivory and cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interviews with Ivory, Pierce-Roberts, costume designer John Bright, and actors Helena Bonham Carter, Simon Callow, and Julian Sands
- Segment about Merchant Ivory Productions from a 1987 episode of NBC Nightly News
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic and author John Pym
New cover by F. Ron Miller
Cast
- Maggie Smith
- Charlotte Bartlett
- Helena Bonham Carter
- Lucy Honeychurch
- Denholm Elliott
- Mr. Emerson
- Julian Sands
- George Emerson
- Daniel Day-Lewis
- Cecil Vyse
- Simon Callow
- The Reverend Mr. Beebe
- Judi Dench
- Miss Lavish
- Rosemary Leach
- Mrs. Honeychurch
- Rupert Graves
- Freddy Honeychurch
- Patrick Godfrey
- The Reverend Mr. Eager
- Fabia Drake
- Catharine Alan
- Joan Henley
- Teresa Alan
Credits
- Director
- James Ivory
- Produced by
- Ismail Merchant
- Screenplay
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Photography
- Tony Pierce-Roberts
- Music
- Richard Robbins
- Editor
- Humphrey Dixon
- Costume design
- Jenny Beavan
- Costume design
- John Bright
- Production design
- Gianni Quaranta
- Production design
- Brian Ackland-Snow
- Makeup
- Christine Beveridge
