Oscilloscope (company)

Oscilloscope
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryMotion picture
Founded2006 (2006)
Founder
Key people
  • Dan Berger
Websiteoscilloscope.net

Oscilloscope Laboratories is an independent film company, distributor, recording studio and production facility. It was founded by Adam Yauch and former TH!NKFilm executive David Fenkel. Fenkel left the company in May 2012 to co-found A24.[1] Dan Berger was named president of Oscilloscope in 2008.[2][3]

Releases

Film Year Country Director(s) Notes Spine Number
God & Country[4] 2024 U.S. Dan Partland 151
Wildcat[5] U.S. Ethan Hawke
Sometimes I Think About Dying U.S. Rachel Lambert 150
Canary[6] 2023 U.S. Danny O'Malley

Alex Rivest

144
Piaffe[7] 2022 Germany Ann Oren 145
Shortbus U.S. John Cameron Mitchell re-release (2006) 128
Claydream 2021 U.S. Marq Evans 133
Poser U.S. Ori Segev, Noah Dixon 132
The Tale of King Crab Italy Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis 130
Anonymous Club Australia Danny Cohen 136
Clara Sola Costa Rica Nathalie Álvarez Mesén 135
Stanleyville Canada Maxwell McCabe-Lokos 131
So Late So Soon U.S. Daniel Hymanson 123
The Velvet Queen France Marie Amiguet 129
No Ordinary Man Canada Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt 126
Les Nôtres Canada Jeanne Leblanc 125
Silo U.S. Marshall Burnette 124
Sophie Jones U.S. Jessie Barr 122
Truth to Power U.S. Garin Hovannisian 121
What Happened Was... U.S. Tom Noonan re-release 116
Billy the Kid 2020 U.S. Jennifer Venditti re-release (2007)
The Twentieth Century Canada Matthew Rankin 115
Martin Margiela: In His Own Words Belgium, Germany Reiner Holzemer 120
We Are Little Zombies Japan Makoto Nagahisa 114
All I Can Say U.S. Danny Clinch, Taryn Gould, Colleen Hennessy, Shannon Hoon
Clementine U.S. Lara Jean Gallagher 117
The Infiltrators Canada Cristina Ibarra, Alex Rivera 112
Run This Town[8] Canada Ricky Tollman
Saint Frances U.S. Alex Thompson
Cane River U.S. Horace B. Jenkins re-release (1982) 111
VHYES U.S. Jack Henry Robbins
Midnight Traveler 2019 U.S. Hassan Fazili
Ms. Purple Justin Chon
Jay Myself Stephen Wilkes
The Hours and Times Christopher Munch re-release (1991)
Relaxer Joel Potrykus
Combat Obscura Miles Lagoze
Wrestle Lauren Belfer, Suzannah Herbert
Hal 2018 U.S. Amy Scott
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection Julien Faraut
Madeline's Madeline Josephine Decker
Searching for Ingmar Bergman France, Germany Felix Moeller, Margarethe von Trotta
The King U.S. Eugene Jarecki
On Her Shoulders Alexandria Bombach
Summer 1993 Spain, U.S. Carla Simón
Sollers Point U.S. Matthew Porterfield
November Estonia, Poland, Netherlands Rainer Sarnet
Song of Granite 2017 U.S. Pat Collins
Beauty and the Dogs France, U.S. Kaouther Ben Hania
May It Last: A Portrait of The Avett Brothers U.S. Judd Apatow, Michael Bonfiglio
Bobbi Jene Elvira Lind
Brimstone & Glory Viktor Jakloveski
The Road Movie Belarus, U.S. Dmitrii Kalashnikov
Polina France Valérie Müller and Angelin Preljocaj
Santoalla Spain, U.S. Andrew Becker, Daniel Mehrer
Kedi U.S. Ceyda Torun
Always Shine[9] U.S. Sophia Takal 78
Contemporary Color U.S. Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross 80
The Love Witch[10] 2016 U.S. Anna Biller
Girl Asleep U.S. Rosemary Myers
Lost in Paris U.S. Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
The Alchemist Cookbook U.S. Joel Potrykus
Notes on Blindness U.K. Peter Middleton, James Spinney Short film
One Week and a Day Israel Asaph Polonsky
Pickle (short film)[11] U.S. Amy Nicholson
The Fits U.S. Anna Rose Holmer
Ma Ma Spain, France Julio Medem
The Wait Italy, France Piero Messina
Embrace of the Serpent 2015 Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina Ciro Guerra
What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy U.K. David Evans
Above and Below Switzerland, Germany Nicholas Steiner
Body U.S. Dan Berk, Robert Olsen
The Second Mother Brazil Anna Muylaert
Félix & Meira Canada Maxime Giroux
El Elefante Desaparecido (The Vanished Elephant) Peru, Colombia, Spain Javier Fuentes-León
The Past is a Grotesque Animal U.S. Jason Miller
The Wonders Italy, Switzerland, Germany Alice Rohrwacher 85
Catch Me Daddy U.K. Daniel Wolfe 83
Mad as Hell U.S. Andrew Napier 88
The Kill Team 2014 Dan Krauss 78
Art and Craft Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman; co-directed by Mark Becker 79
Gabriel Lou Howe
Low Down Jeff Preiss 80
Soul of a Banquet Wayne Wang 81
Buzzard Joel Potrykus 82
Animals Collin Schiffi 87
Pulp: A Film About Life, Death, and Supermarkets U.K. Florian Habicht 86
Big Significant Things U.S. Bryan Reisberg 84
Whitewash Canada Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais 71
12 O'Clock Boys U.S. Lotfy Nathan 56
Teenage Germany Matt Wolf 57
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors 2013 U.S. Sam Fleischner 72
Coherence U.K. James Ward Byrkit 77
About Sunny U.S. Bryan Wizemann 62
Dying to do Letterman Joke Fincioen, Biagio Messina 63
Welcome to Pine Hill Keith Miller 64
Wasteland U.K. Rowan Athale 65
A Teacher U.S. Hannah Fidell 67
Breakup at a Wedding Victor Quinaz 68
Off Label Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher 69
Our Day Will Come France Romain Gavras 70
Tim and Susan Have Matching Handguns U.S. Joe Callander Short film 73
It's a Disaster Todd Berger[2] 52
These Birds Walk Pakistan, U.S. Omar Mullick, Bassam Tariq 53
Mother of George Nigeria Andrew Dosunmu 54
After Tiller U.S. Martha Shane, Lana Wilson 55
The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best Ryan O'Nan 47
Jingle Bell Rocks! Canada Mitchell Kezin 58
Bunohan: Return to Murder Malaysia Dain Said 60
Metro Manila U.K. Sean Ellis
The Rise 2012 U.S. Rowan Athale
We Need to Talk About Kevin 2012 U.K. Lynne Ramsay 43
Happy Few 2012 France Antony Cordier Released as Four Lovers
Shut Up and Play the Hits 2012 U.S. Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern 45
Hello I Must Be Going 2012 U.S. Todd Louiso 46
The Apple Pushers[12] 2012 U.S. Mary Mazzio 75
Only the Young 2012 U.S. Jason Tippet, Elizabeth Mims 48
Tchoupitoulas 2012 U.S. Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross 49
Reality 2012 Italy Matteo Garrone 50
Wuthering Heights 2012 U.K. Andrea Arnold 51
We Can't Go Home Again 2012 U.S. Nicholas Ray 39
Samsara 2012 U.S. Ron Fricke 59
Oma & Bella 2012 Germany Alexa Karolinski 61
28 Hotel Rooms 2012 U.S. Matt Ross 35
Dark Days 2011 U.S. Marc Singer re-release (2000) 36
Don't Expect Too Much 2011 U.S. Susan Ray 92
Compassion in Emptiness 2011 U.S. Dalai Lama
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front 2011 U.S. Marshall Curry 38
Bellflower 2011 U.S. Evan Glodell 40
Rebirth 2011 U.S. Jim Whitaker 41
The Other F Word 2011 U.S. Andrea Blaugrund Nevins 42
Monogamy 2011 U.S. Dana Adam Shapiro 29
The Unloved 2011 U.K. Samantha Morton 30
Meek's Cutoff 2011 U.S. Kelly Reichardt 31
Who Took The Bomp? Le Tigre On Tour 2011 U.S. Kerthy Fix 33
Bananas!* 2011 Sweden Fredrik Gertten 24
Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love 2010 U.S. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi 20
The Maid (La Nana) Chile Sebastián Silva 21
Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak U.S. Lance Bangs, Spike Jonze Companion to Where the Wild Things Are 22
The Exploding Girl U.S. Bradley Rust Gray 23
A Film Unfinished Israel Yael Hersonski 25
Howl U.S. Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman 26
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within U.S. Yony Leyser 27
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale U.S. Richard Shepard 28
Exit Through the Gift Shop U.S. Banksy Home release only 32
Kisses Ireland Lance Daly 9
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale Finland Jalmari Helander 34
The Paranoids Argentina Gabriel Medina 14
The Thorn in the Heart (L’Epine dans le Coeur) France Michel Gondry 16
Polytechnique 2009 Canada Denis Villeneuve 91
Terribly Happy (Frygtelig lykkelig) Denmark Henrik Ruben Genz 17
Treeless Mountain Korea So Yong Kim 7
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man U.S. Stephen Kijak 8
The Garden U.S. Scott Hamilton Kennedy 10
The Law (La Loi) U.S. Jules Dassin re-release (1959) 11
Burma VJ Denmark Anders Østergaard 12
Unmistaken Child Israel Nati Baratz 13
No Impact Man U.S. Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein 15
The Messenger Oren Moverman 18
Beautiful Losers Aaron Rose 19
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell 2008 Matt Wolf 74
Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot Adam Yauch 1
FLOW: For Love of Water France Irena Salina 2
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father U.S. Kurt Kuenne 3
Wendy and Lucy Kelly Reichardt 4
Frontrunners Caroline Suh 5
Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie Jay Delaney 6

References

  1. ^ Martin, Michael (21 June 2008). "How Beastie Boy Adam Yauch Turned Into a Filmmaker". New York. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Todd Berger's Apocalyptic 'It's A Disaster' Goes to Laub and Berger's Oscilloscope". 23 August 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  3. ^ Thielman, Sam (2009-06-30). "Oscilloscope, WB team up online". Variety. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  4. ^ Boorstein, Michelle (January 11, 2024). 'God & Country' film spotlights Christian nationalism’s threat to democracy". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 15, 2024.
  5. ^ Complex, Valerie (2024-01-17). "Oscilloscope Acquires Ethan Hawke Film 'Wildcat'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
  6. ^ "'Canary' Review: A Portrait of Perseverance". The New York Times. September 14, 2023.
  7. ^ Sophie Monks Kaufman (August 12, 2022). "'Piaffe' Review: A Horse's Tail Invokes a Sexual Awakening in Thrilling New Erotic Cinema Entry". IndieWire. Retrieved January 15, 2024.
  8. ^ Ramos, Dino-Ray (2020-01-23). "Oscilloscope Teams With Twitter For Innovative Release Of Ricky Tollman's 'Run This Town' Starring Ben Platt". Deadline. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
  9. ^ The Hollywood Reporter
  10. ^ "Cannes: Oscilloscope Buys Anna Biller's 'The Love Witch'". Variety. 2016-05-18. Archived from the original on 2023-06-16.
  11. ^ IndieWire
  12. ^ "Oscilloscope shines up 'Apple Pushers'". Variety. 18 April 2012. Retrieved 14 May 2012.