Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The definitive portrait of one of history's most extraordinarily talented women. Go beyond Callas, the original diva, and meet Maria, the woman who longed for a normal life. Told through private letters, unpublished memoirs, performances and TV interviews, the film is the first to tell the life story of the legendary Greek-American opera singer completely in her own words with never-before-seen footage.
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the reign of the Tang dynasty in China, a secret organization called "The House of the Flying Daggers" rises and opposes the government. Leo is a police officer who sends officer Jin to investigate a young dancer named Mei, claiming that she has ties to the "Flying Daggers" organization. Leo ends up arresting Mei, only to have Jin break her free in a plot to gain her trust and lead the police to the new leader of the secret organization. But...
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Appears on list
Description
DVD-R. A definitive exploration of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, "Hallelujah." Approved for production by Leonard Cohen just before his 80th birthday in 2014, the film accesses a wealth of never-before-seen archival materials from the Cohen Trust including Cohen's notebooks, journals and photographs, performance footage, and extremely rare audio recordings and interviews.
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.
8) 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.
9) Please give
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...
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the 1930's, the fictional Emmet Ray ruled as the second greatest jazz guitarist in the world. But his reputation was eclipsed by his eccentric career moves, hilarious clashes with gangsters and stormy love affairs with two very different women.
12) Paris can wait
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The wife of a successful movie producer takes a car trip from the south of France to Paris with one of her husband's associates.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career. Unknown to him, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon. Long rumored there to be dead, two fans, record store owner Stephen Segerman and journalist Craig Bartholomew-Strydom, decided to seek out the truth of his fate.
15) Foxcatcher
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 134 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on true events, the dark and fascinating story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire and two champion wrestlers.
16) Winged migration
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows bird migrations flying over the seven continents: from one pole to the other, from the seas to snowcapped mountains, from the canopy of heaven to mangroves and swamps.
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
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.
18) The rider
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a tragic riding accident, young cowboy Brady, once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, is warned that his competition days are over. Back home, Brady finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose: to ride and compete. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland...
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Pigoil's adulterous wife leaves with his beloved son, he gambles everything to get him back. As the previous manager of the now closed Chansonia Theatre, he makes a deal with the new owner to give him one month to turn the theater around and make a profit.
20) Jindabyne
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A group of men discover the body of an Aborigine girl in an Australian fishing hole. Instead of reporting the murder right away, they wait until they've filled their coolers with fish. Their inaction sets off a scandal that threatens to tear them apart.