Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three sisters, Sachi, Yoshino and Chika, live together in the city of Kamakura, Japan. When their father, absent from the family home for the last fifteen years, dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral and meet their shy, teenage half sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them. Suzu eagerly agrees and a new life of joyful discovery begins for the four siblings.
Publisher
Varahonar Film Co.]
Pub. Date
c[1999], 2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mohammad joyfully returns to his tiny village on summer vacation from the Institute for the Blind in Tehran, unaware of his father's intention to disown him. Engaged to be married, the widowed man has kept Mohammad a secret from his fiancée, certain the boy's disability will destroy his only chance for happiness. With the wedding swiftly approaching, Mohammad's future hangs precariously in the balance as his father struggles against his destiny,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant Georgette.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (80 min.) : Blu-ray, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did seventeenth century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically, 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning ten years, his adventure takes him to Delft, Holland, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces, to the north coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney, and even to Buckingham Palace to see a Vermeer...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From its early Hawaiian roots to its current status as a recreational lifestyle enjoyed worldwide, big wave surfing is given the definitive exploration by acclaimed director Stacy Peralta.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been typically been handed down from father to son for centuries.
8) Whiplash
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite east coast music conservatory. Plagued by the failed writing career of his father, Andrew hungers day and night to become one of the greats. Terence Fletcher, an instructor equally known for his teaching talents as for his terrifying methods, leads the top jazz ensemble in the school. Fletcher discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer...
9) Inside job
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Provided is an analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research, and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation,...
10) Please give
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kate has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture at estate sales and marking it up at her Manhattan store. There's the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that she wants. There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations. And worst of all are the neighbors, cranky, old Andra...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documentary on folk rock musician Neil Young, covering two nights on his solo tour at Massey Hall in Toronto. The concert includes new music from Young's album Le Noise, as well as the classics Ohio; I Believe in You; and others. Mixed in with concert footage are scenes from a road trip through Ontario, Canada.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the romantic city of Rome. The intertwining stories of a worker who wakes up to find himself a celebrity, an architect who takes a trip back to the street he lived on as a student, a young couple on their honeymoon, and a frustrated opera director who has a talent for discovering talented singers.
13) Truth
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the ensuing firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers.
14) The Hollars
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
John Hollar, a struggling NYC artist is forced to navigate the small middle-American town he left behind when news of his mother's illness brings him home. Back in the house he grew up in, John is immediately swept up in the problems of his dysfunctional family, high school rival, and an over-eager ex-girlfriend as he faces impending fatherhood with his girlfriend in New York.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Northern Italy in 1983, seventeen year old Elio begins a relationship with visiting Oliver, his father's research assistant, with whom he bonds over his emerging sexuality, their Jewish heritage, and the beguiling Italian landscape.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the 1920s, Stanley, an Englishman posing as an Asian magician, attempts to debunk fake spiritualists. He then travels to the south of France to unmask a supposed medium named Sophie as a good-looking fake, but he ends up falling for her real-world charms instead.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lost wallet opens the door to Georges and Marguerite's romantic adventure. After examining the ID of its owner, it is not a simple matter for Georges to turn the wallet he has found into the police. Nor can Marguerite retrieve her wallet without being piqued with curiosity about the person who found it. As George and Marguerite navigate the social protocols of giving and acknowledging thanks, turbulence enters their everyday lives.
18) Animal kingdom
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Seventeen year-old J is in the process of becoming initiated into a gang of armed robbers, known as the Cody brothers. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world, but soon discovers that the entire situation is far larger and more menacing than he could ever imagine. Meanwhile, senior police officer Nathan Leckie recognizes that J's youth and inexperience may prove to be the key to finally conquering the Codys, and hopes to lure...
19) Miles ahead
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and medications, and his mind haunted my unsettling ghosts from the past.
20) Run Lola run
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A thrilling post-MTV, roller-coaster ride about two star-crossed lovers who have only minutes to change the course of their lives. Time is running out: Lola has just received a frantic call from her boyfriend Manni, who's accidentally lost a small fortune he was to deliver to his mobster boss. If they cannot find a way to replace the money within twenty minutes, Manni will surely suffer severe consequences.