'Visions Of A Gilded Age' Film Series: The House Of Mirth

"Visions of a Gilded Age" film series: The House of Mirth (2000, 140 min.) In Terence Davies’ stark but sensitive adaptation of the Wharton novel, Gillian Armstrong is the precarious social climber trying to make her way into New York society at the mercy of ruthless characters like Dan Ackroyd and Laura Linney. 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.