Title: Slaves of New York
Content:  Slaves of New York is a 1989 American comedy-drama Merchant Ivory Productions film. Directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant, it stars Bernadette Peters, Adam Coleman Howard, Chris Sarandon, Mary Beth Hurt, Mercedes Ruehl, Madeleine Potter, and Steve Buscemi. Based on the stories Slaves of New York by Tama Janowitz, the film follows the lives of struggling artists in New York City during the mid-1980s.
Title: Slaves of New York
Content:  with Miss Peters's originality. We wanted someone unusual and different but also ingenuous and not too knowing." Slaves of New York was shot on location in New York City, in the Lower East Side, a downtown gallery and a club. Shooting started on April 4, 1988, with a 10-week shooting schedule. There was a "modest" budget—$5 million—that meant there were no lengthy rehearsals. There was one read-through before shooting began. There are several cameos in this film: for example, Producer Ismail Merchant, lyricist Betty Comden and Adam Green, son of her writing partner, Adolph Green, and Tony Award-winning actress Tammy Grimes appear in party scenes.
Title: Slaves (film)
Content:  The movie, which was produced by the Theater Guild, is the first to be directed by Herbert J. Biberman, the blacklisted Hollywood director, since he made the controversial "Salt of The Earth" in 1954. Mr. Biberman is an intensely earnest propagandist, a man who has committed himself to working for good in his own way, which, unfortunately, does not include the making of good films. There is one, unequivocably pleasant thing about "Slaves," the brief appearance of Gale Sondergaard (Mrs. Biberman). She has a terrible line to say ("How can you support this eee-vill?" she asks a slave-owner) but it still recalled many memorable appearances, in earlier, happier times.
Title: Slaves of New York
Content: Bernadette Peters as Eleanor ; Chris Sarandon as Victor Okrent ; Mary Beth Hurt as Ginger Booth ; Madeleine Potter as Daria ; Adam Coleman Howard as Stash ; Nick Corri as Marley ; Charles McCaughan as Sherman ; John Harkins as Chuck Dade Dolger ; Mercedes Ruehl as Samantha ; Joe Leeway as Jonny Jalouse ; Anna Katarina as Mooshka ; Bruce Peter Young as Mikell ; Michael Schoeffling as Jan ; Steve Buscemi as Wilfredo 
Title: Slaves (film)
Content:  Slaves is a 1969 American drama film directed by Herbert Biberman. The film stars Dionne Warwick (in her screen acting debut), Ossie Davis, and Stephen Boyd.
Title: Slaves of New York
Content:  Slaves of New York received mostly unfavorable reviews at the time of its release. Janet Maslin wrote that the film "...simply drifts from situation to situation" and is "never terribly involving". Roger Ebert, who gave the movie a half-star rating, opened his review with the statement "I detest Slaves of New York so much that I distrust my own opinion." According to Box Office Mojo, the film's domestic gross was $463,972. Slaves of New York became a cult classic amongst the gay communities in the United States. It is notorious for a scene that features a very convincing drag act performing "Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart" by The Supremes while making their way down a street in full evening gowns.
Title: Slaves of New York
Content: "Mother Dearest" Written and performed on screen by Joe Leeway ; "Say Hi to Your Guy" Written and performed on screen by Johann Carlo and Michael Butler 
Title: Slaves (film)
Content: Dionne Warwick as Cassy ; Ossie Davis as Luke ; Stephen Boyd as MacKay ; Marilyn Clark as Mrs. Bennett ; Nancy Coleman as Mrs. Stillwell ; Julius Harris as Shadrach ; James Heath as Luther ; David Huddleston as Holland ; Eva Jessye as Julie ; Oscar Paul Jones as Zacharious ; Aldine King as Emmeline ; Robert Kya-Hill as Jericho ; Gale Sondergaard as New Orleans Lady ; Shepperd Strudwick as Mr. Stillwell ; Barbara Ann Teer as Esther 
Title: Slaves to the Underground
Content:  The New York Times praised the film's spontaneous performances.
Title: Slaves (film)
Content:  Warwick (Boyd's angry, alcoholic mistress who dresses African style) manages to keep her dignity intact and rise above it all. in The New York Times, Vincent Canby described the film as "a kind of cinematic carpetbagging project in which some contemporary movie-makers have raided the antebellum South and attempted to impose on it their own attitudes that will explain 1969 black militancy. The result, which opened here yesterday at the DeMille and neighborhood theaters, is a pre-fab 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' set in an 1850 Mississippi where everybody—masters and slaves alike—talks as if he had been weaned, at best, on the Group Theater, and, at worst, on silent-movie titles." He 

Question: Who was the director of Slaves of New York?
Answer: James Ivory.