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Howards end review book5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() If Howards End is mentioned at all 30 years from its release, it’s as a dusty relic from the days before Oscar-bait became weapons-grade. Influentially, of course, is another matter. At the time, it was the more successful of the two films, monetarily speaking, making about $26 million at the box office to a paltry $2.8 million for Dogs and netting nine Academy Award nominations to boot. ![]() ![]() What I find offensive is that Merchant-Ivory shit.”Ī scant month and a half later, Merchant Ivory’s film Howards End premiered on March 13, 1992. “I don’t know about you,” the director said, as relayed in Peter Biskind’s indispensable recent history Down and Dirty Pictures, “but I love violent movies. After the final Sundance screening of Reservoir Dogs held in the storied Egyptian Theatre, Quentin Tarantino was asked how he justified all the violence in his film. ![]()
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