Happenstance put ongoing movie club and classroom watching in fruitful collision. Last of the Mohicans teed up The Age of Innocence, previewing next week's A Room with a View. In hindsight, the Merchant Ivory seems much less mannered/overdetermined than the contemporaneous adaptation work of our two homegrown auteurs.
And how to communicate to those not yet born the 90s essence rare of Ms. Ryder onscreen and in the culture?
