• Scott Returns to Howards End

    For his contribution to the New York Times’s video column “Critics’ Picks” this week, A. O. Scott selects the Merchant Ivory masterwork Howards End. In the not quite four-minute piece, featuring clips from the film that showcase Richard Robbins’s driving score and Tony Pierce-Roberts’s sterling photography, Scott praises the drama’s “scrupulous fidelity” to its E. M. Forster source material as well as its “vivid, complicated, beautifully rendered individuals.” Howards End, which is available from Criterion on Blu-ray and DVD, is “much more than a period piece,” argues Scott: it’s a “biting social critique” and “a stick of dynamite wrapped in lace.”

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  • By @coolgreenpines
    October 05, 2010
    09:08 PM

    I cannot properly express my love of this film (or book) without resorting to an excess amount of gushing. It is beautifully done and so very special to me. I feel equal parts Helen and Margaret Schlegel. Emma's performance in the film is pitch perfect. Has an actress and role ever been so perfectly matched? She inspires a variety of emotion throughout her journey: endearment, frustration, protectiveness, admiration, awe...Oh my goodness! I just found out it's on right now on cable. The films Gods are listening. Gotta go!
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