'Visions Of A Gilded Age' Film Series: The Golden Bowl

"Visions of a Gilded Age" film series: The Golden Bowl (2000, 130 min.) Merchant and Ivory are back again, with a sumptuous look at James’s final novel, about a wealthy American played by Nick Nolte who is collecting art in Europe with a plan to build a museum back home. His young wife, played byUma Thurman, becomes entangled with the marriage of his daughter, played byKate Beckinsale. 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.