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Adam Yauch’s Top 10

Adam Yauch is a founding member of the Beastie Boys. Recently he created a new division of his company Oscilloscope Laboratories called Oscilloscope Pictures (oscilloscopepictures.com) for the sole purpose of distributing films. He even hired two guys from ThinkFilm to come over to his new company. At first we were a little concerned that Adam intended to compete with Criterion, but then we thought it over and, honestly, we have been doing this for a long time and are not threatened by Adam’s new company. The groundbreaking DVD The Beastie Boys Video Anthology is currently available from the Criterion Collection. So right there that proves we have the upper hand.

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Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa

Japan

1954

207 minutes

1.33:1

1. C’mon, I gotta tell why this movie is good? You tell me!

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Walkabout

Nicolas Roeg

Australia

1971

100 minutes

1.77:1

2. Saw this one when I was in junior high school and it stayed with me. Glad to see it in the collection.

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Nights of Cabiria

Federico Fellini

Italy

1957

110 minutes

1.33:1

3. I don’t know what to write. I just love this movie.

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Yojimbo

Akira Kurosawa

Japan

1961

110 minutes

2.35:1

4. I guess you have figured out by now that I am really not going to review any of the films that I picked.

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Sanjuro

Akira Kurosawa

Japan

1962

96 minutes

2.35:1

5. But I do like the folks up at the Criterion Collection. Those are my people up in there.

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Rushmore

Wes Anderson

United States

1998

93 minutes

2.35:1

6. They are a really great team that’s into some bugged-out, esoteric shit.

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And God Created Woman

Roger Vadim

France

1956

92 minutes

2.35:1

7. Peter is like the bigwig. He’s the head honcho.

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The Harder They Come

Perry Henzell

United States

1973

103 minutes

1.66:1

8. Susan has her ear to the street. She always looks for some interesting stuff to put out.

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Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa

Japan

1950

88 minutes

1.33:1

9. When I was hanging out up there Heather was working on the audio. But now she switched over to some other department.

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Wes Anderson

United States

2004

118 minutes

2.35:1

10. Sometimes I get free DVDs from Criterion, but not always. I wanted to get one of each, you know, like the whole collection, but they said, “No, Adam, we don’t do that.”