By Jay Fernandez Michael Barker Tom Bernard Portrait Issue 32 - P 2011 ... How do you balance an artist’s personal behavior or reputation with the impact of his or her art?

Tom Bernard and Michael Barker are a rarity in ... Thirty-year veterans of the specialty film business who created and ran United Artists Classics then Orion Classics, Bernard and Barker (along ...

“Tom Jones” for Bernard) to the future of independent film. Bernard and Barker met in 1979 at United Artists (Bernard said they drew each other’s names in the Christmas gift exchange), a ...

When Tom Bernard and Michael Barker saw “Equity ... They met in 1979 as employees of Films Incorporated before moving on to run the art-house labels United Artists Classics and Orion Classics.

“I see nothing happening on a major scale to try to get the older audiences back to theaters,” griped Sony Pictures Classics’ co-president Tom Bernard. Ideally, Bernard wants NATO to trumpet ...

Films released by Barker and Bernard have received 184 Academy Award ... artistic director Christian Jungen. “Michael and Tom have been producing and distributing sophisticated entertainment ...

Jersey Storytellers Project events feature up to seven tellers -- influencers, artists and everyday community members -- sharing stories of about 8 to 10 minutes long on a theme. We all know New ...

Sony Pictures Classics presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard offered sound advice ... from first working together at United Artists Classics and then at Orion Classics, before establishing ...