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The Ten Best Films from Adam Yauch’s Oscilloscope Laboratories

Adam “MCA” Yauch was a groundbreaking musician, but he was pretty darned important to the indie film world, too. He founded Oscilloscope Laboratories, an indie distribution company that over the last few years has released not only these ten amazing films but dozens more, including Wendy and Lucy, The Messenger, If a Tree Falls, Howl, and The Maid. In the process, the company has become not only a critical and festival darling, but also a Paste favorite. I had a great conversation at Sundance this year with an O-scope exec about how much our companies’ respective sensibilities overlapped. I told him that when I saw that O-scope was releasing a film, it automatically doubled my interest in it, and he laughed and said he felt the same about Paste‘s recommendations. I thought about that conversation this weekend when we got the sad, sad news of Yauch’s far-too-early passing. I’ll miss his music of course, like everyone, but as the Film Section Editor for Paste I thought it was also important to pay tribute to his contributions to the indie film world, too. While you’re spinning Beastie Boys records this week in his honor—and you should—why not pick up one or two of these films, too? In honor of Yauch and our dear friends at Oscillocope Laboratories, here are our 10 favorites.

http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/05/the-ten-best-films-from-adam-yauchs-oscilloscope-laboratories.html