Monday Night Cinema: Howards End (PG)

One of Merchant Ivory’s undisputed masterpieces – nominated for nine Oscars and winner of three – this landmark adaptation of EM Forster’s 1910 novel is a sumptuous, turbulent saga of class relations and changing times in Edwardian England.

Sisters Margaret (Emma Thompson, who won the Best Actress Oscar for her role) and Helen Schlegel (Helena Bonham Carter) collide with a wealthy, conservative industrialist (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife (Vanessa Redgrave), and a working-class man (Samuel West) and his mistress (Niccola Duffet). As years pass, the interwoven fates of the families and the diverging trajectories of the two sisters’ lives are closely connected to the ownership of Howards End – the Wilcox’s beloved country home.