The Age of Innocence

Director: Martin Scorsese

1993 / 139min / 4K DCP

One breathtaking composition follows another in Scorsese’s adaptation of Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece about social mores (and taboos) amongst New York’s viperous moneyed classes in late 19th-century New York, brought to life by an all-star lineup of craftspeople including cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, production designer Dante Ferretti, and composer Elmer Bernstein. In front of the camera there are Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer suffering beautifully as wealthy lawyer Newland Archer and Countess Ellen Olenska, the divorced pariah whom he yearns for.

“In No Fault, I write about my friendship with the film critic and labor organizer Teo Bugbee, and how they taught me so much about movies; it was Teo who first told me that Martin Scorsese considers Innocence the most violent movie he’s ever made, and when Countess Olenska asks Newland Archer where they can go to be free of what people think about their love for each other, it really is as brutal as any mob movie.” —Haley Mlotek

Introduction by organizer and critic Teo Bugbee on Sunday, February 23rd