Oscilloscope Laboratories (Firm)
81) Bellflower
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
An apocalyptic love story, BELLFLOWER is both explosive and visually stunning. While Woodrow and Aiden prepare for the global apocalypse by crafting homemade flamethrowers and fire breathing Mad Max-inspired muscle cars, Woodrow falls hard in love with a femme fatale who's potentially more dangerous than the end of days. Nominated for Best Cinematography and the John Cassavetes Award at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. Nominated for the Emerging...
82) The Fits
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
While training at the gym, 11-year-old tomboy Toni becomes entranced with a dance troupe. As she struggles to fit in she finds herself caught up in danger as the group begins to suffer from fainting spells and other violent seizures. Nominated for the Best of Next! Award at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Nominated for the Golden Gate Award for Best New Director at the **San Francisco International Film Festival**. Winner of the Someone to Watch Award...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Arabic
Description
When Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, is raped by police officers after leaving a party, she is propelled into a harrowing night in which she must fight for her rights even though justice lies on the side of her tormentors. Employing impressive cinematic techniques and anchored by a tour-de-force performance from newcomer Mariam Al Ferjani, BEAUTY AND THE DOGS tells an urgent, unapologetic, and important story head-on. A rare, startling film from a...
84) The proposal
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Luis Barragan is among the world's most celebrated architects of the twentieth century. Upon his death in 1988, much of his work was locked away in a Swiss bunker, hidden from the world's view. In an attempt to resurrect Barragan's life and art, boundary redefining artist Jill Magid creates a daring proposition that becomes a fascinating artwork in itself. A high-wire act of negotiation that explores how far an artist will go to democratize access...
85) The love witch
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In this darkly comic gem, it's Christmas Eve in northern Finland, and an archeological dig has just unearthed Santa Claus. But this Santa isn't one you want coming to town. When local children begin disappearing, Pietari and his father capture the mythological being and attempt to sell Santa to the corporation sponsoring the dig. Winner of the Variety Piazza Grande Award at the **Locarno International Film Festival**. Winner of Best Film, Best Director,...
87) Clementine
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Reeling from a one-sided breakup, anguished Karen (Otmara Marrero) flees Los Angeles for her ex's idyllic lake house in the Pacific Northwest. There, she becomes entangled with a mysterious, alluring younger woman (Sydney Sweeney), whom she cannot seem to resist. Equal parts psychological thriller and sexual coming-of-age story, CLEMENTINE is a tense rumination on who to love and how to let go. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**.
88) Reality
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Italiano
Description
A darkly comic look at Luciano, a charming and affable fishmonger whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on the reality show Big Brother leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia. So overcome by his dream of being on reality TV, Luciano's own reality begins to spiral out of control.
89) Wrestle
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Hoop Dreams goes to the mat in this intimate coming-of-age documentary about four members of a wrestling team at Huntsville's J.O. Johnson High School, a longstanding entry on Alabama's list of failing schools. Teammates Jailen, Jamario, Teague, and Jaquan each face challenges far beyond a shot at the state championship: splintered family lives, drug use, teenage pregnancy, mental health struggles, and run-ins with the law threaten to derail their...
90) So late so soon
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Half a century into their marriage, Chicago artists Jackie and Don Seiden approach the fragility of their elderly lives in their own distinct ways. Jackie, notorious for her unbounded energy, is constantly on the move, inspired to create works of art while also maintaining the couple's multistory, brightly-painted Victorian house. Don steadily sketches in his notebook while facing alarming interruptions to his health. Director Daniel Hymanson filmed...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Italiano
Description
Luciano is a wandering outcast in a remote, late nineteenth-century Italian village. His life becomes undone by alcohol, forbidden love, and a bitter conflict with the prince of the region over the right of passage through an ancient gateway. When the quarrel escalates, Luciano is exiled to the distant Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego where, with the help of ruthless gold-diggers, he searches for a mythical treasure, paving his way toward redemption....
92) May It Last
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
From longtime fans Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio and filmed with extraordinary access over the course of more than two years, MAY IT LAST is an intimate portrait of the acclaimed North Carolina band The Avett Brothers, charting their decade-and-a-half rise, while chronicling their present-day collaboration with famed producer Rick Rubin on the multi-Grammy-nominated album "True Sadness". With the recording process as a backdrop, the film depicts...
93) Sophie Jones
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true experiences of grief, girlhood, and growing up, Jessie Barr's SOPHIE JONES provides a stirring portrait of a sixteen year old. Stunned by the untimely death of her mother and struggling with the myriad challenges of teendom, Sophie (played with striking immediacy by the director's cousin Jessica Barr) tries everything she can to feel something again, while holding herself together, in this sensitive, acutely realized, and utterly...
94) Relaxer
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Doom and gloom are on the way. The Y2K apocalypse can't be stopped. Abbie's older brother issues him the ultimate challenge before it goes down: beat the infamous level 256 in Pac-Man and no getting up from the couch until he does so. Abbie's survival story begins here; inside a rotting living room with no food or water, and a revolving door of friends and acquaintances. It's THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL by way of SLACKER. Official Selection at the **SXSW...
95) November
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Estonian
Description
Set in a pagan village, this surreal tale centers on a love triangle among a peasant girl, a cocky stable boy & a sleepwalking baroness. The approach of winter prompts the inhabitants to steal food & supplies. Nominated for Best International Narrative Feature at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. *"This midnight-movie classic in the making uses ancient Estonian folk tales to create something shockingly unexpected. Both gravely serious and demonically...
96) River Of Grass
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed director Kelly Reichardt's (*Certain Women*) first film follows Cozy and Lee, lovers who are as criminally inclined (and hopelessly incompetent) as they come. Ironically, their robbery spree gets disrupted when they find themselves running from the police for a crime they didn't commit. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Nominated for the Someone to Watch Award, Best First Feature, Best Screenplay,...
97) Moon Garden
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A little girl in a coma is thrust into a surreal industrial dreamworld. Haunted by a spectre that feeds off her tears, she must follow her mother's voice to find her way back to consciousness.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Writer and director Faraut revisits the rich bounty of footage of the left-handed tennis star John McEnroe as he competes in the French Open at Paris's Roland Garros Stadium in 1984. Far from a traditional documentary, Faraut probes the archival film to unpack both McEnroe's attention to the sport and the footage itself, creating a lively and immersive look at a driven athlete, a study on the sport of tennis and the human body and movement, and finally...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
This strikingly photographed epic follows wandering drunk Luciano on an around-the-world journey after tragedy at home in Italy. His exile to Argentina's Tierra del Fuego finds him consumed by greed in a search for a long-lost treasure.
100) Jingle Bell Rocks!
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A trippy, cinematic sleighride into the strange & sublime universe of alternative & underground Xmas music, featuring The Flaming Lips, Run-DMC, The Free Design, Low, Miles Davis & Bob Dorough, Clarence Carter, John Waters, and many more. Official Selection at the **San Francisco Documentary Film Festival** and **DOC NYC**.
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