Favorite Merchant Ivory film?

[Holmes]

The Criterion Collection:

For five decades, the name Merchant Ivory has been an imprimatur signaling a certain type of quality cinema: literate, sumptuous, classical. But the more than fifty films made by the production team named for Ismail Merchant and James Ivory are distinguished by more than just their glossiness: multivalent, morally complex, and inquisitive, these works, shot all over the world (from Delhi to Paris to New England), are stories of class and of social change, of cultures divided and clashing.

What is your favorite of the Merchant Ivory canon?

[Holmes]

My personal top five:

1. Howards End
2. Maurice
3. The Remains of the Day
4. The Bostonians
5. A Room with a View

[Todd Tomorrow]

Howard's End. It's just such a great story, perfectly cast.

[AKORIS]

Remains of the Day followed closely by Howards End

[arcadeforest]

Jefferson in Paris

[Cremildo]

I've seen less than half of them, but I'll be surprised if anything tops Maurice.

[jeangreyforever]

1. The Remains of the Day
2. Howards End
3. A Room with a View
4. The Bostonians
5. The White Countess

[Cremildo]

For now, Maurice, but there's still plenty of his work I need to watch.