The Age of Innocence

My reaction to Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence reminds me a lot of my reaction to David Lean’s Hobson’s Choice. Both are great works by master filmmakers that have been overshadowed by more well-known films, but they both prove to me, definitively, of the greatness of the filmmakers in question. There are filmmakers who aren’t that great who end up making a single film that fires on every cylinder, but then there’s Scorsese having made his name with a particular type of modern and mas...