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Boston Phoenix

Maybe the problem with movies last year was that there were no Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, or Henry James adaptations. If so, then iconoclastic British director Terence Davies gets us off to a good start with The House of Mirth (January 19), Wharton's tale of a woman independent in spirit but not in means who contends against the entitled pooh-bahs of New York's gilded age. The eclectic cast features former Agent Scully, Gillian Anderson, who seems quite at home in a corset, as well as Dan Aykroyd, Eric Stoltz, and Anthony LaPaglia.

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