'Visions Of A Gilded Age' Film Series: The Age Of Innocence

"Visions of a Gilded Age" film series: The Age of Innocence (1993, 138 min.) Martin Scorsese’s direction dazzles in this adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel about New York society in the 1870s. Proper lawyer Daniel Day Lewis is engaged to Winona Ryder, but can barely resist the charms of the scandalous Michelle Pfeiffer. Out of the same era and milieu as the American artists featured in the Clark’s summer exhibition, Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly , the novels of Henry James and Edith Wharton have elicited a wide range of film adaptations, which this series, "Visions of a Gilded Age: Film Adaptations of Henry James and Edith Wharton," will survey.