Provincetown Film Art Series: Merchant Ivory

The Provincetown Film Art Series, now in its 18^th year, is sponsored by the Provincetown Film Society (PFS) and Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) and curated and hosted by film scholar Howard Karren. Films in the series, both recent and vintage, are chosen around central themes, but the focus is on films about artists and creativity, and films that are themselves works of art.

Merchant Ivory (2024)

Directed and cowritten by Stephen Soucy. With James Ivory. Documentary. 1 hour, 52 minutes.

Director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant were a 20th-century curiosity: a filmmaking powerhouse and a gay couple. Their triumphant careers began humbly in India and reached a critical and commercial peak with exquisite adaptations of classic novels with screenplays by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and scores by Richard Robbins. Stephen Soucy’s documentary presents a star-studded collection of actors and collaborators who create a compelling, deeply personal picture of Merchant and Ivory’s lives in art.