Sony Pictures Classics

The fact that we get a do-the-right-thing reunion here with... with Pino and bugging out from Do the Right Thing just 35 years later to see what the world has done is just so great to watch.

And as far as why more people aren't getting to see this, this is probably inside baseball, but I'm going to blame Sony Pictures Classics.

That studio cannot release a movie to save its life.

It's notoriously bad at marketing their movies.

One of the jokes I laughed out on Blue Sky last night watching the midterms return was Matt Patches hopping on Blue Sky and saying, I'm here to talk about the thing that I know is top of mind for everybody else, which is the only living pickpocket in New York.

I am finally Sony Pictures Classics age.

Okay, I was happy with that.

I am Sony Pictures Classics years old.

Yeah, that's actually better.

I was just delighted that you watched the movie.

Tom couldn't have known where any of this was leading, but eventually he'd be going to Cannes himself and Sundance and Toronto looking for great movies and figuring out how to get the rest of us to see them.

And along the way, Tom helped build Sony Pictures Classics into one of the great homes for independent and international film.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Capote, Midnight in Paris, Whiplash.

Films that Tom helped find and champion and bring to audiences around the world.

Let's get to what we've been watching this week.

This week, Devinder Hardwar and I both had a chance to check out a small, independent, limited release film released by Sony Pictures Classics.

It's called The Only Living Pickpocket in New York.

It stars John Turturro.

And, you know, it's funny.

Tom told me that when he spoke to a Michael Barker with Sony Pictures Classics, which had released a more, he told, you know, Michael that I was predicting, you know, Mando Riva and Michael was thrilled.

And when they realized that, you know, I was predicting her and that maybe she had a chance of winning, they convinced her to Mando Riva to, you know, to fly in from, from France to attend the Oscars.

And because she was 86 years old, didn't want like to fly, but they want her to go because, you know, They wanted to tell voters she would be there, so they'd vote for her.

It's one of those films that premiered at Sundance and got released only now, actually.

It has been in limited release for a couple of days, I believe since October 23rd in New York and L.A., but it has now expanded nationwide from Sony Pictures Classics.

It has played at the Berlin International Film Festival, Telluride, Toronto, New York...

It has gone everywhere, and people are in love with John Turturro's performance in this movie, Noah Segan's writing, his direction.

Now, I say the screenplay thing because, quite frankly...

I don't believe it will, but I do believe it's like hovering somewhere in the bottom five because people are really charmed by this movie.

And Sony Pictures Classics did get Blue Moon in for screenplay last year.

That was a bit more verbose than this one.