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Sony Pictures Classics is an art-house, "independent" film division of Sony Pictures Entertainment founded in 1992 by former Orion Classics heads Michael Barker, Tom Bernard, and Marcie Bloom (similar to Fox Searchlight Pictures and Focus Features). It distributes, produces and acquires specialty films (especially of documentaries, independent films and art films) from the United States and around the world. As of 2015, Barker and Bernard are Co-Presidents of the division.
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The Raid 2 (2014)
, 2h30Directed by Gareth Evans
Origin Indonesie
Genres Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Crime, Martial arts
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Iko Uwais, Arifin Putra, Julie Estelle, Tio Pakusadewo, Alex Abbad, Kazuki Kitamura
Following the aftermath of The Raid: Redemption, the film opens with Bejo, a self-made Jakarta gang lord, executing Rama's brother Andi in a field outside Jakarta.
Foxcatcher (2014)
, 2h10Directed by Bennett Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about families, Sports films
Actors Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Steve Carell, Sienna Miller, Anthony Michael Hall, Vanessa Redgrave
Olympic wrestling champion Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) speaks at an elementary school in place of his older brother, Dave (Mark Ruffalo). Both are Olympic gold medal winners, but Mark feels overshadowed by Dave. Mark is contacted by philanthropist and wrestling enthusiast John E. du Pont (Steve Carell), an heir to the E.I. du Pont family fortune, who arranges to fly Mark to his estate in Pennsylvania where du Pont has built a private wrestling training facility. Du Pont invites Mark to join his wrestling team, Team Foxcatcher, to train for the World Championship and be paid. Mark accepts the offer, with du Pont urging him to enlist Dave as well. Dave declines for the sake of his wife and two children who are settled where they live, so Mark moves to Pennsylvania alone.
Saint Laurent (2014)
, 2h30Directed by Bertrand Bonello
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary
Themes La mode, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Gaspard Ulliel, Léa Seydoux, Jérémie Rénier, Louis Garrel, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Amira Casar
La vie d'Yves Saint Laurent, majoritairement entre 1967 et 1976, période « sombre » du couturier avec ses tourments professionnels et affectifs ainsi que sur ses relations avec le dandy Jacques de Bascher et celui qui est déjà son compagnon, Pierre Bergé. Le film se concentre sur ses méthodes de travail, sa rencontre avec ses deux muses, Loulou de la Falaise et Betty Catroux, les excès de ses nuits durant lesquelles le couturier sort beaucoup, mais surtout sur l'isolement quotidien et la pression exercée sur Saint Laurent.
Leviathan (2014)
, 2h20Directed by Andreï Zviaguintsev
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Alekseï Serebryakov, Vladimir Vdovitchenkov, Elena Lyadova, Roman Sergueïevitch Madianov
Set in fictional town of Pribrezhny (shot in the coastal town of Teriberka, Murmansk Oblast), Russia, the plot follows the tragic series of events that affect Kolya (Aleksei Serebryakov), a hotheaded car mechanic, his second wife Lilya (Elena Lyadova) and his teenage son, Roma (Sergey Pokhodyaev). The town's crooked Mayor Vadim (Roman Madyanov) has undertaken a legal plot to expropriate the land on which Kolya's house is built.
Land Ho! (2014)
, 1h35Directed by Aaron Katz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Paul Eenhoorn
A pair of ex-brothers-in-law set off to Iceland in an attempt to reclaim their youth through Reykjavík nightclubs, trendy spas, and rugged camp-sites.
Lambert & Stamp (2014)
, 2hOrigin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians
Actors Roger Daltrey, Chris Stamp, Terence Stamp
The film narrates that how aspiring filmmakers Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert, searching a subject for their underground movie, wound up discovering, mentoring and co-managing English rock band The Who.
Merchants of Doubt (2014)
, 1h36Directed by Robert Kenner
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Environmental films, Disaster films
Un documentaire sur ces soi-disants experts embauchés par les grandes entreprises et dont le but est de semer le doute sur des sujets tels que le réchauffement de la planète et la toxicité des produits chimiques.
Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
, 1h37Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Historical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, La provence
Actors Emma Stone, Colin Firth, Hamish Linklater, Marcia Gay Harden, Jacki Weaver, Eileen Atkins
In 1928, a globally famous illusionist, Wei Ling Soo, performs in front of a crowd in Berlin with his world-class magic act. As he walks off stage the film audience sees that he is actually a British man named Stanley (Colin Firth). He berates his employees and is generally curmudgeonly towards his well-wishers. In his dressing-room, he is greeted by old friend and fellow illusionist Howard Burkan (Simon McBurney). Howard enlists Stanley to go with him to the Côte d'Azur where a rich American family, the Catledges, has apparently been taken in by a clairvoyant and mystic, Sophie (Emma Stone). In fact, the son of the family, Brice (Hamish Linklater), is smitten with Sophie, and his sister Caroline (Erica Leerhsen) and brother-in-law George (Jeremy Shamos) are concerned Brice is considering proposing marriage. Howard says that he has been unable to uncover the secrets behind her tricks and he admits that the more he watched her the more he believed she really has supernatural powers. So he would like Stanley, who has debunked charlatan mystics in the past, to help him prove she is a fraud.
Infinitely Polar Bear (2014)
, 1h30Directed by Maya Forbes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana, Keir Dullea, Wallace Wolodarsky, Brianne Brozey
A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who do not make the overwhelming task any easier.
Aloft (2014)
, 1h33Directed by Claudia Llosa
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Jennifer Connelly, Mélanie Laurent, Cillian Murphy, Oona Chaplin, William Shimell, Ian Tracey
Nana Kunning (Jennifer Connelly), a struggling mother of two young sons, takes her children out into an isolated location. She, along with other parents and children, have come there in order to be seen by the Architect, a faith healer who heals by constructing small delicate structures out of branches and then bringing patients inside them. The Architect works by lottery and Nana's son Gully, who has an inoperable brain tumour, is not chosen to be saved. Nana and the rest of the crowd stay to watch the healing happen, however before the Architect can touch the patient, Nana's son Ivan's hawk crashes into the structure. Nana goes inside to try and lead the hawk outside but the Architect stops her and allows the hawk to break out on its own which destroys the structure. The crowd is furious at Nana and her sons for ruining the healing and refuse to give her a ride unless they abandon the animal. When Ivan finally releases the hawk one of the men shoots it down in front of him.
Whiplash (2014)
, 1h46Directed by Damien Chazelle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about education, Films about music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Miles Teller, Melissa Benoist Wood, J. K. Simmons, Austin Stowell, Jayson Blair, Kofi Siriboe
Andrew Neiman is a first-year jazz student at the prestigious Shaffer Conservatory in New York. He has been playing drums from a young age and aspires to become one of the greats like Buddy Rich. Famed conductor Terence Fletcher discovers Andrew practicing in the music room late one night and eventually invites him into his studio band as the alternative for core drummer Carl Tanner. Fletcher is abusive toward his students, mocking and insulting them; when the band rehearses the Hank Levy piece "Whiplash" and Andrew struggles to keep his tempo, Fletcher hurls a chair at him, slaps him, and berates him in front of the class.
Love Is Strange (2014)
, 1h34Directed by Ira Sachs
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Alfred Molina, John Lithgow, Marisa Tomei, Darren E. Burrows, Charlie Tahan, Cheyenne Jackson
Ben and George, a same-sex couple from Manhattan, get married after 39 years together. George is a Catholic school music teacher, and when word of the marriage reaches the archdiocese, he is fired. Without his salary, the couple can no longer afford their New York apartment and are forced to ask their friends and family for shelter, resulting in their separation. Ben stays in Brooklyn with his nephew Elliot, Elliot's novelist wife Kate, and their teenage son Joey, while George bunks with their (now former) neighbors, a younger same-sex couple of two party-loving cops, Roberto and Ted.
Mr. Turner (2014)
, 2h30Directed by Mike Leigh
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Peinture
Actors Timothy Spall, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Dorothy Atkinson, Paul Jesson, Jamie Thomas King, Lesley Manville
A look at the last quarter century of the great British painter J. M. W. Turner. Profoundly affected by the death of his esteemed father, loved by his housekeeper, Hannah Danby, whom he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close and loving relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies.
Jimmy's Hall (2014)
, 1h49Directed by Ken Loach
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Barry Ward, Andrew Scott, Jim Norton, Brían F. O'Byrne, Francis Magee, Karl Geary
In 1932, after ten years in the United States, Jimmy Gralton returns to his native Ireland to help his mother run the family farm. A new government is in power in Ireland ten years after the end of the Civil War. To meet the needs of the young people of County Leitrim, Jimmy, in spite of his reluctance to cause upset to his old enemies (the Church and the local landowners), decides to reopen the "Hall", a young people's centre, free and open to all, where the local young people meet to dance, study or talk. Success comes quickly, but the growing influence of Jimmy and his radical ideas are not to the taste of everyone in the village.
Coming Home (2014)
, 1h49Directed by Zhang Yimou
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Gong Li, Guo Tao, Zhang Huiwen, Liu Peiqi, Zu Feng, Ding Jiali
The story is adapted from the novel, The Criminal Lu Yanshi (陆犯焉识; 陸犯焉識) written by novelist Geling Yan. Lu Yanshi (陆焉识; 陸焉識, "Yanshi" literally means "how to recognize") was a professor before being sent to the labor camp (laogai, literally "reform through labor") during the Cultural Revolution. He escaped from the labor camp in Xining to meet his long-missed wife Feng Wanyu (冯婉瑜; 馮婉瑜) and daughter Dandan (Chinese: 丹丹). However, the police were already waiting outside the house to arrest him. Dandan, who was then a teenage ballerina, could not play the leading role in Red Detachment of Women due to her father's outlaw status. Under the temptation of regaining the leading role, Dandan revealed her parents' secret meeting plan to the police. The meeting ended with the capture of Lu and Dandan getting the supporting role. After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Lu came home only to find his broken family, his wife suffering from amnesia and his daughter working as textile worker. Under the shock of a former official's sexual harassment, his wife sometimes recognized him as Officer "Fang" instead of being her husband. To reawaken his wife's memory, Lu played out as a total stranger just to be near with his wife. Although she recognized him as a letter reader or a piano tuner, he never could be able to be close enough to live with his chaste wife. During these years, Lu continued to write to his wife as a way of communicating with her, and to convince his wife to forgive their daughter. The movie ended with Feng waiting to receive her husband outside the railway station and Lu standing with her on a snowy day, pretending to be pedicab driver.