Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
1) Miles ahead
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (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.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who 'temporarily' parked her van in Bennett's London driveway and proceeded to live there for fifteen years.
3) All is true
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family.
4) Third person
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three stories of love, passion, trust and betrayal. The tales play out in New York, Paris and Rome through three couples who appear to have nothing related, but share deep commonalities.
6) Blue Jasmine
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger's humble apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.
7) The Duke
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1961 when Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full...
8) Moon
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Astronaut Sam Bell is completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy on the dark side of the moon: Helium-3. His declining health is causing headaches and hallucinations that lead to a near-fatal accident, rendering him unconscious. After recuperating, an unexpected discovery leads him to doubt his sanity, his identity, and the integrity of the company. Believing he is alone on his mission, his sole...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 112 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Long-term couple John and Ella Robina are experiencing the struggles of growing older. With John having Alzheimer's and Ella undergoing cancer treatment, they decide to abandon their disease-stricken lifestyles and embark on a journey from Boston to Key West in an attempt to fully live what's left of their lives. Their trusty RV, which they've dubbed "The Leisure Seeker", will be their mode of transportation as they enjoy what may be their last adventure...
10) I saw the light
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life.
11) The statement
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An escaped Nazi collaborator is the target of an ambitious judge, a scrupulous colonel and two mysterious hit men.
12) The wife
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man's Wife. Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his acclaimed and prolific body of work. Joe's literary star has blazed...
13) The father
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind, and even the fabric of his reality.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"...François Girard's sweeping historical drama about a man searching for his childhood best friend -- a violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust -- who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance."--