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Klawans, Stuart | October 4, 1993 issue

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The article focuses on the motion picture "The Age of Innocence," by Martin Scorsese. Actually, Scorsese kicks off the film in his best form, perhaps because he's pretending, just for a few minutes, that the story is about Italians after all. The scene is the Academy of Music on the season's opening night. As the plot takes hold, in a version redacted by Scorsese and Jay Cocks, the film settles into a sedate rhythm of shot/countershot dialogue; of prettified, long-shot vistas alternating with close-ups of stuffy interiors; of restrained, discreet tracking shots broken up by fussy little montage essays on the lighting of a cigar or the laying out of a dinner service.

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AGE of Innocence, The (Film); SCORSESE, Martin; MOTION pictures; COCKS, Jay; MUSIC; ITALIANS
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