By Aaron Hillis
Beastie Boys founding member and filmmaker Adam Yauch (that's "McA" to you, sucka!) isn't giving up the studio and stage for a life in Hollywood, though he's certainly passionate about the medium. Besides directing many of his band's videos and the multi-camera Beasties concert doc "Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!", Yauch recently launched his own indie film label and sales company called Oscilloscope Pictures. Their first project? "Gunnin' For That #1 Spot," a doc helmed by Yauch himself, about the 24 high school b-ball prodigies who competed in 2006's first annual "Boost Mobile Elite 24 Hoops Classic," held in Harlem's Rucker Park. With a predictably well-curated soundtrack of hip-hop and break beats, the film chases eight of the competitors down the court and behind the scenes, as the media, shoe companies, money-eyed advisers and coaches line up to woo them with future NBA dreams. I passed the mic to Yauch,...
Beastie Boys founding member and filmmaker Adam Yauch (that's "McA" to you, sucka!) isn't giving up the studio and stage for a life in Hollywood, though he's certainly passionate about the medium. Besides directing many of his band's videos and the multi-camera Beasties concert doc "Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!", Yauch recently launched his own indie film label and sales company called Oscilloscope Pictures. Their first project? "Gunnin' For That #1 Spot," a doc helmed by Yauch himself, about the 24 high school b-ball prodigies who competed in 2006's first annual "Boost Mobile Elite 24 Hoops Classic," held in Harlem's Rucker Park. With a predictably well-curated soundtrack of hip-hop and break beats, the film chases eight of the competitors down the court and behind the scenes, as the media, shoe companies, money-eyed advisers and coaches line up to woo them with future NBA dreams. I passed the mic to Yauch,...
- 6/27/2008
- by Aaron Hillis
- ifc.com
By Neil Pedley
As the temperature rises, romance blooms amongst the geriatric set, "Mary Poppins" goes Bollywood, and parents will get their first chance to lay eyes on that which will likely have them driving to Toys "R" Us all summer long.
"Elsa and Fred"
Seeing anyone under 30 fall in love on screen is elusive these days, and so director Marcos Carnevale's gentle and endearing tale of romance between a couple with a real-life combined age of 176 is quite the breath of fresh air. In a role that nabbed several awards in his native Spain, Manuel Alexandre stars as Fred, an embittered widower whose chance encounter with Elsa (China Zorilla), a mischievous Fellini fanatic, leads the pair to Italy to fulfill her dream of reenacting the famous Trevi Fountain scene from Fellini's "La Dolce Vita." In Spanish with subtitles.
Opens in limited release.
"Finding Amanda"
Fans of the small...
As the temperature rises, romance blooms amongst the geriatric set, "Mary Poppins" goes Bollywood, and parents will get their first chance to lay eyes on that which will likely have them driving to Toys "R" Us all summer long.
"Elsa and Fred"
Seeing anyone under 30 fall in love on screen is elusive these days, and so director Marcos Carnevale's gentle and endearing tale of romance between a couple with a real-life combined age of 176 is quite the breath of fresh air. In a role that nabbed several awards in his native Spain, Manuel Alexandre stars as Fred, an embittered widower whose chance encounter with Elsa (China Zorilla), a mischievous Fellini fanatic, leads the pair to Italy to fulfill her dream of reenacting the famous Trevi Fountain scene from Fellini's "La Dolce Vita." In Spanish with subtitles.
Opens in limited release.
"Finding Amanda"
Fans of the small...
- 6/23/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
NEW YORK -- Beastie Boy Adam Yauch is launching indie film distribution and international sales company Oscilloscope Pictures, a new arm of his music and film production outfit, Oscilloscope Laboratories. Former ThinkFilm vp David Fenkel is set to run the unit.
Yauch and Fenkel plan to acquire narrative and documentary features from festivals for release in the U.S. and provide funds to complete and release unfinished films.
The pair, who worked on Yauch's Beastie Boys docu Awesome! I Fuckin' Shot That! at ThinkFilm, will complete all postproduction and marketing work from OL's downtown Manhattan production space. Fenkel's fellow ThinkFilm alumni Dan Berger is joining them in the venture.
"We're kind of winging it," said Yauch, who has recorded albums, produced Awesome and created ads out of the 8,000-square-foot office since 2002. He plans on releasing two to 10 films in the first year, and without any outside financial backing for the self-financed venture, hopes to make deals where the filmmakers share the risk.
Yauch and Fenkel plan to acquire narrative and documentary features from festivals for release in the U.S. and provide funds to complete and release unfinished films.
The pair, who worked on Yauch's Beastie Boys docu Awesome! I Fuckin' Shot That! at ThinkFilm, will complete all postproduction and marketing work from OL's downtown Manhattan production space. Fenkel's fellow ThinkFilm alumni Dan Berger is joining them in the venture.
"We're kind of winging it," said Yauch, who has recorded albums, produced Awesome and created ads out of the 8,000-square-foot office since 2002. He plans on releasing two to 10 films in the first year, and without any outside financial backing for the self-financed venture, hopes to make deals where the filmmakers share the risk.
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