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VHS : Age of InnocenceIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, Geraldine Chaplin, Daniel Day-Lewis, Tracey Ellis, Carolyn Farina  Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780767802796 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 0767802799 Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Release Date: January 20, 1998 Running Time: 139 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: October 01, 1993 Sales Rank: 40535 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential video: Martin Scorsese does not sound like the logical choice to direct an adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel about manners and morals in New York society in the 1870s. But these are mean streets, too, and the psychological violence inflicted between characters is at least as damaging as the physical violence perpetrated by Scorsese's usual gangsters. At the center of the tale is Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis), a somewhat diffident young man engaged to marry the very respectable May Welland (Winona Ryder). But Archer is distracted by May's cousin, the Countess Olenska (a radiant Michelle Pfeiffer), recently returned from Europe. As a married woman seeking a divorce, the countess is an embarrassment to all of New York society. But Archer is fascinated by her quick intelligence and worldly ways. Scorsese closely observes the tiny details of this world and this impossible situation; this is a movie in which the shift of someone's eyes can be as significant as the firing of a gun. The director's sense of color has never been keener, and his work with the actors is subtle. That's Joanne Woodward narrating, telling us only as much as we need to know--which is one reason why the climax comes as such a surprise.--Robert Horton Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Movie for 15 and overOne of the most beautiful love stories I have ever seen in a movie. It is most beautifully portrayed and ends the way you hope all love stories would end. Rating:  - Fails to engageTried to care about this elegant saga, but despite all the fetching details and careful crafting, it all feels rather pointless. Michelle Pfeiffer turns in a radiant performance trying to get out from under these overstuffed rooms and overwrought sensibilities, but can't quite manage it. The stumbling point, in my view, Daniel Day-Lewis here plainly just doesn't cut it as a leading man. His emasculated, simpering deadpan, dispensing dialogue medicinally as so much cough syrup, completely ... Read More Rating: - ON MY TOP FIVE LIST OF MY FAVORITE FILMSI did my senior research paper on the original Edith Wharton novel, and the film is so faithful to her original language and vision that I was nearly knocked backward by the brilliance of this ravishingly intoxicating film. All of the symbolism of the novel is here, including the colors and flowers associated with May and Ellen respectively. Whenever I read the novel, I always see Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day Lewis as the ill-fated lovers in my mind, and I very much wish that Michelle Pfeiffer had ... Read More Rating: - A Breathtaking Departure for ScorseseMore renowned for his action and crime films, "The Age of Innocence" just happens to my favorite of Scorsese's works. It isn't perfect, but it's very, very good. Based on the eponymous novel by the great American writer, Edith Wharton, the film exposes the unwritten but ironclad social mores, and their attendant hypocrisies, of upper-class New York society in the late nineteenth century. Therefore, this film required the director to make his points in a subtler manner than we are accustomed to seeing ... Read More Rating: - SIX STARSOne of Martin Scorcese's best, and that's saying a lot. Reams could be written about it; the costumes, sets, even the plates of food - the controlled, seething passion of Daniel Day-Lewis. This is his best since "The Incredible Lightness of Being". Another book turned into great film. I loved every moment, word, breath. Truly captures Wharton's book. And the flavor of early New York City, at least it's upper crust. Much credit should be given to Winona Ryder here. A very nuanced performance. Watch ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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