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Having just watched 'A Room with a View', I then went straight for this great work of 'Howard's End' as well. A film that one can never tire of. I'm afraid it's an era of great film making that is long gone. 'A Passage to India', 'Shadowlands', 'The Sting', 'Out of Africa' etc. have faded away. The only great exceptions would be some different films, yet quite watchable in 'A River Runs Through It', 'Legends of the Fall', 'Gladiator', 'Braveheart', 'Michael Clayton', 'Syriana', 'Spy Game' and a few others. For the longest time, I have not been able to say that a movie was truly great and excellently cast. Despite all of the money that James's Cameron ploughed into 'Avatar' and 'Titanic', they were only entertainment and hardly what I would view as great. I have a very eclectic taste in films and can easily enjoy a nicely made film for entertainment reasons, romance, get one thinking or simply to occupy some time. I cannot for the life of me understand why all the current screenwriters of today do is to continue re-make after re-make and ridiculous comic book movies. I could write a better film myself and I gather many other commentators could as well. Everything is all about CGI and the ability to truly act doesn't even matter anymore. We need to continue to appreciate not only the great films, yet the great actors who made them this way. I look back at the films I grew to love in my homeland of Australia of 'Gallipoli', 'The Man From Snowy River', 'The Lighthorsemen', 'The Year of Living Dangerously', 'All the River's Run', 'Breaker Morant', 'Mad Max', 'A Town Like Alice' and a few new films in 'Danger Close', 'William Kelly's War', 'The Water Diviner', 'The Dressmaker' and 'Red Dog'. Australia has become known as a great place to make movies, yet hasn't produced anything of real substance for quite sometime. Just as video killed the radio star, the greed of Hollywood has lead to the demise of any real films. At least technology has given us the chance to re-live the greats whenever we choose. At least we can be grateful for that.🇦🇺💖👩🏼‍🎨

From 2009.

This is literally Fontaine

Hugh grant ist so hübsch😍❤️

As a team, they made so many beautiful films!!

Excellent

deveriam ter mantido o diálogo de Maurice e clive onde Maurice mostra pra ele o quanto ele o amava e agora ele está livre dessse sentimento e vai tentar se feliz e quanto clive por medo e egoísmo o deixava sempre de lado, fez sua vida mesmo que de fachada,e ao mesmo tempo queria ele sempre por perto ,não se importando o quanto o deixado triste, magoado e infeliz

deveriam ter mantido o diálogo de Maurice e clive onde Maurice mostra pra ele o quanto ele o amava e agora ele está livre dessse sentimento e vai tentar se feliz e quanto clive por medo e egoísmo o deixava sempre de lado, fez sua vida mesmo que de fachada,e ao mesmo tempo queria ele sempre por perto ,não se importando o quanto o deixado triste, magoado e infeliz

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Whirring. Beautiful. Mysterious. Exquisite.

Most Indians I've met in the States are wonderful.

Excellent. I prefer the acting and ending in this version over the 1984 movie.

Like the line where she says “it makes no difference, God is here”.

I think I've seen this man at the beginning of this movie on an episode of 'The Avengers' [British TV show]...'Honey For The Prince' - they were trying to get Emma Peel into the Prince's hareem to find an assassin. Yes! It is...Zia Mohyeddin.

Beautiful piece of artwork! Nomi 💖🙏

This TV adaptation: 6.5/10, and I’m being generous. David Lean’s 1984 movie adaptation: 9.0/10 The key problem with Lean’s version is that it does not show correctly the magnitude of British oppression in India, and India’s discontent with the British.

As I recall, David Lean could not use Zia because he felt he was too old for the part by then, though he wanted to

Blurred images .... what a pity!!😪

What a shame that the movie is blurry. I would have loved to watch it and give a thumbs-up, but I can't.

In the movie Mississippi Masella, Denzel Washington plays opposite a lovely Indian actress.

In George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh, he has Ravi Shankar playing Indian music., among other musicians.

One of Forster's more obscure moments: what IS Margaret's motivation for accepting Wilcox's proposal?

Ah, yes...this clever track used to such excellent effect in the film, just squeaks by temporally. The tango, from what historical understanding I have of it, reached Paris round about 1909-1910 so, realistically, there is every possibility it may have jumped the Channel soon after and a place as chic as Simpson's have had it on their menu (Forster's novel dates from 1910).

Let's face it, the film versions of A.R.W.A.V, Maurice and Howards End are essentially a trilogy - thematically [truth of self, the connection/dialectic of heretofore socially incongruous persons] and Robbins weaves a particular musical continuity between the three, culminating in Howards End finding that golden mean between the sunny outcome of 'A Room' and the darker, less resolved social realities of Maurice (remember, in 1910, an unmarried single mother of the bourgeois British class would have been a scandalous figure; Wilcox, whose entire sense of privilege has been unravelled by the end of the film, has no choice BUT to cede to Margaret's bequeathing of the house to her nephew (Helen's son by Leonard Bast).

The was a bit of hoopla that Kenneth Branagh's 'Hamlet' of 1996 was the first film shot in 70mm since Ryan's Daughter in 1970...but in an interview with James ivory that I came across on CZcams, the interviewer points out that it is rarely mentioned that Howards End was shot in 70 mm. Ivory confirms this - that Tony Pierce-Roberts wanted to establish a particular tone for the film by using 70mm and different film stock than usual. The results, as we see, are gorgeous: I feel he was denied a much deserved Oscar (I have no issue with Phillippe Rousselot's work overall - Rousselot himself should have at least been nominated for 'Henry & June' in 1990...I just don't feel his Oscar winning 'A River Runs Through It' is the equivalent of 'Howard's End'.

The best title I've a come across for a soundtrack cue: if you remember, 'Edna Mae' is the imaginary erotic figure Maurice's psychologist/mesmerist conjures in order to 'readjust' Mr. Hall toward the ladies. She is seen only briefly in a dream sequence floating like a pre-Raphaelite corpse along with an equally 'dead' Maurice, their Cambridge punt looking more like a double coffin. One can only imagine Mis Edna Mae's surprise indeed if she happened upon Lord Risley, Clive, or Maurice in some Edwardian Alley with some marble mouthed yob from the Kings Own Rifles. And hats off to Ben Kingsley for taking on the role of the psychologist: Kingsley, who arrive like a meteor with his singular performance as the Mahatma five years before, had slipped into semi-semi-obscurity; his slightly comic, and ultimately brilliantly sympathetic character (complete with continental American accent) is a jewel

'Maurice' was made in 1987 for a mere 2.5 - 3 million dollars and to see the film now -as then, (when a mid-budget film cost about 10 million) one wonders how it was done. Pierre L'homme's photography alone gives the a visual depth of a much more expensive film (along with costumes, set dec, and a stellar cast). For lovers of the film check out some of the excised material from the original rough cut (they actually shot the entire book but scenes were cut for length including an amazing scene where a game of charades thick with irony is played in a drawing room) and an opening montage that is very different from how the film actually opened in final cut (the final cut opening is more faithful to the book's opening chapter).

Sir David is one of my Cinematic Gods. This fascinating piece proves why he's in my film firmament.

I've always thought the pond scene was a pretty on-the-nose reference to Walt Whitman and the "souse with spray" part of Song of Myself but I'm surprised that I've never seen this mentioned anywhere before. The preceding shot is of Julian Sands dressed just like Whitman in the famous Samuel Hollyer engraving and adopting an identical pose, so I'm convinced it's not just a coincidence

This God damn novel promoted dividing India based on religion.. it's great that India managed to overcome so many obstacles and emerge as a great country..

I'm still in shock that Merchant and Ivory are actual human beings! Their movies are pure heaven.

Zia Mohyeddin saturated any scene he was is in (in anything) with an incredible energy; he must have been a man of amazing warmth and intelligence.

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I have nothing acute against 'Unforgiven' but I still can't believe it took best picture over 'Howards End'. And that Tony-Pierce Roberts did not take the award for Best Cinematography... come on...I've seen 'A River Runs Through It' and though I admire his work in 'Dangerous Liaisons' and think he SHOULD have been nominated for 'Henry and June', I just don't think his work in 'River' trumps Roberts'.

32:52 that transition !!

31:12 the way he says “i’m scudder” is so funny 😭

26:35 this would’ve been a sweet scene to add into the movie, i wonder why they didn’t

who is the guy at 6:02 ? i don’t recognize him from the movie

Thank you Maurice Jarre for this wonderful theme

Pity the copy is so bad

Zia mohiyyuddin sound like and act like Peter Sellers

We watch movies with a lot of viewers and this is a masterpiece with only 40k viewers. Beautiful thing.I read the novel once. I think I have to read it again.

Just now have i watched it goddamn greatest thing I've seen in a long time

1:29 what film is this?

I was 19 years old when I saw Room With a View for the first time in a cinema in London Ontario (Canada), It changed my life, it opened me up to the world of E.M. Forster and it has informed my approach to life and beauty ever since, Julian Sands, Helena Bonham Carter and the entire cast are brilliant, The film is a Masterpiece, thank you so much for this documentary.

This is a masterpiece.

This is on my list of top 10 most loved films. EVERYONE in it was stellar in EVERY way! Daniel Day-Lewi blew my mind! What a wizard he is! What a chameleon! He can be literally ANYONE! I love him SO much! And the pond scene, where the boys are swimming and playing and splashing… I saw absolutely nothing erotic about that at all! For me, it was just three boys having a blast being “children“! I grew up in the country and lived this kind of experience in complete innocence as a child. That’s all I saw in it! It’s one of my most favorite scenes in the entire film! I laughed so hard I was weeping when I first saw it! It is cinematic perfection! Such a great film!

1. Maurice 2. Brokeback Mountain 3. Call me by your name.....each decade has a masterpiece.