We wish Adam Yauch of Oscilloscope Laboratories (or better known as MCA from the Beastie Boys) a speedy recovery. One third of the hip hop trio will be sidelined from performing with the group this summer due to a treatable, cancerous tumor in his salivary glands. With film being his second passion, perhaps there is a positive to be found in a negative: more down time, might mean more movie watching?
Less than three years old, his independent film distribution label has become a testament during a full blown crisis in the film industry, that a small scale model can still thrive and deliver quality films to a public. He’ll be busy with Oscilloscope’s upcoming releases of Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein’s No Impact Man this September, Oren Moverman’s The Messenger in November and he has the eventual releases of a Jules Dassin title The Law, Lance Daly’s Kisses, Michel Gondry’s L’epine dans le Coeur and Gabriel Medina’s The Paranoids (Los Paranoicos) to prep for.
Update: Yauch tells INDIEWIRE, ““This will be a good opportunity to dig through that pile of screeners,” Yauch said, in a statment sent to indieWIRE this afternoon. “Maybe I’ll find a few gems.”
