Sony Pictures Classics

Why A Separation Will Win This Year's Best Foreign Language Oscar

E. Nina Rothe | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Asghar Farhadi, Abu Dhabi Film Festival, Berlinale, A Separation, Academy Awards, Adff, Sony Pictures Classics, Culture News
E. Nina Rothe

A Separation is not the story of a couple falling out of love, but a commentary on a society that has already lost its direction, and only lives in the opposing, inhuman corners of right and wrong.

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Inside Job Director Talks Future Films, Says Wall Street 'Not Entirely Sane'

Felice Arenas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sony Pictures Classics, Film Review, Charles Ferguson, Glenn Hubbard, The Oscars, Los Angeles, Interview, Wall Street Crisis, Independent Film, Wall Street, Inside Job, Chicago, Documentary, Financial Crisis, Entertainment News, No End in Sight, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Felice Arenas

The documentary is both amusing and riveting and people may wonder if they should have enjoyed themselves so much; after all, the story really happened and didn't come from Ferguson's imagination.

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Inside Job -- a Caper Movie for the Financially Inclined

Michael Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sony Pictures Classics, Elizabeth Warren, Sec, Wall Street, Kenneth Rogoff, Countrywide Financial, Inside Job, Pledge to America, Charles Ferguson, Angello Mozilla, Documentary, Carmen Reinhart, Matt Damon, Michael Rose, Documentaries, Los Angeles News
Michael Rose

2010-10-13-wallst.jpgAs far back as the 1300's elements like rapid deregulation and real estate bubbles coupled with arrogance and ignorance were the sparks that set fire to an economy.

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Toronto Day 5: Parties and the House That Film Built

Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sony Pictures Classics, Stephen Frears, Anthony Hopkins, Charles Ferguson, Toronto Film Festival, Foreign-Films, Michael Moore, Tom Bernard, Michael Barker, James Franco, Entertainment News
Erica Abeel

Don't imagine that all we journos do is work and challenge our digestive systems. Consider the array of parties clamoring for my presence. Something of a TIFF ritual is the Sony Pictures Classics dinner.

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Toronto Social Diary

Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeremie Renier, Sony Pictures Classics, Vera Farmiga, Abut Dhabi, The Topp Sisters, Gaspar Ulliel, Parties, The C List, Michael Douglas, Entertainment News
Erica Abeel

Unlike some colleagues who disdain parties, with their trans fatty nibbles, I actively seek them out -- provided the party starts before 11pm when I'd rather be flossing.

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Live from the Toronto Film Festival: Day 2

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: An Education, Sony Pictures Classics, Penelope Cruz, Up in the Air, Toronto International Film Festival, Jason Reitman, The Damned United, George Clooney, Broken Embraces, The Coen Brothers, Toronto Film Festival, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Directed by Jason Reitman, Up in the Air puts Reitman at three for three, in terms of movies that manage to be both smart and wickedly witty. This film could easily put a second Oscar on George Clooney's mantle.

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Frozen River: Breaking Through the Summer Pack

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sony Pictures Classics, Sundance Film Festival, Women's Issues, Breaking Entertainment News, Box Office, Women Film Journalists, Native Americans, Misty Upham, Tom Bernard, The Oscars, Movies, Single Mothers, Women Filmmakers, Illegal Immigrants, Frozen River, Mohawk Nation, Melissa Leo, Courtney Hunt, Women Directors, Entertainment News
Marcia G. Yerman

"Smart movies like Frozen River are an alternative" says Sony Pictures co-president Tom Bernard. "We never try to win the weekend... we try to win the war."

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Cassian Elwes: Future of Independent Film "Somewhere Over The Rainbow"

Paige Donner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sony Pictures Classics, The Wackness, Independent Film Distribution, Mark Gill, Cassian Elwes, Julia Roberts, IFC Films, Movies, Juno, Los Angeles Film Festival, Sundance '08, William Morris Agency, Apple iTunes, Digital Downloads, American Girl, Abigail Breslin, Entertainment News
Paige Donner

Mark Gill, former head of Warner Independent, one of the recent casualties of independent film's radically changing landscape, explained: "The world is falling apart in independent cinema."

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