The Age of Innocence

TCM's Dave Karger introduces The Age Of Innocence, 1993.

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces The Age Of Innocence, 1993.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Age Of Innocence, 1993.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Age Of Innocence, 1993.

Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) in a more cordial parting with Countess Ellen (Michelle Pfeiffer), with May (Winona Ryder) and her mother (Geraldine Chaplin), Joanne Woodward narrates to his dinner, with his mother and sister (Sian Phillips, Carolyn Farina) and Jackson (Alec McCowen), in Martin Scorsese’s The Age Of Innocence, 1993.

Director Martin Scorsese breaks with narrative convention, with Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) after attending a play, involving yellow roses, with Countess Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer), then joining her upstate, their desire still repressed, when Beaufort (Stuart Wilson) appears, in The Age Of Innocence, 1993.

From the opening opera sequence, with one of a series of single takes as remarkable as any by director Martin Scorsese and cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, with Joanne Woodward’s enthralling narration from the Edith Wharton novel, following Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis), in The Age Of Innocence, 1993.

Martin Scorsese’s opening, shooting at the Philadelphia Academy Of Music, introducing Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis), gossips Lefferts and Jackson (Richard E. Grant, Alec McCowen), May (Winona Ryder), Mrs Welland (Geraldine Chaplin) and Countess Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer), in The Age Of Innocence, 1993.

Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder star in Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of Edith Warton's The Age Of Innocence (1993).