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Alongside Spike Jonze, Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz, Beastie Boys Story is also executive produced by Dechen Wangdu-Yauch, John Silva, John Cutcliffe, Peter Smith, Thomas Benski, Dan Bowen, Sam Bridger, Michele Anthony, David Blackman and Ashley Newton. Ad-Rock and Mike D host a convivial trip down memory lane in this filmed record of a live show staged in tribute to third member Adam Yauch, Last modified on Thu 23 Apr 2020 13.16 EDT.

Logo Concept by: Illumination Ink. Thanks to a combination of talent, ambition, and hard work, the fruit of your labors starts to resonate with people outside of your immediate social circle. The result is a warm and intimate film, and one that I frequently found myself wishing I could experience in the IMAX format, which I can only imagine was intended to re-create the original live theatrical experience. By joining Slate Plus you support our work and get exclusive content. We see grainy video of the band performing at the Kitchen in New York, reading their rhymes off of torn notebook pages. And you'll never see this message again. With amiably rehearsed back-and-forth banter, they introduce the embarrassing photos and excruciating TV clips that are shown on a big screen. That fantasy so many of us have harbored about bands is a fantasy of the young, and in many ways it’s a fantasy of eternal youth. The documentary will have a special cut released in select IMAX theaters for a limited time starting on April 3, and then the regular version of the documentary will premiere on Apple TV+ on April 24. A gorgeous and almost impossibly moving remembrance unfolds. There are no talking heads weighing in on the band’s significance, no corny montages, and there is no Behind the Music­­–style canned drama. I’d enjoyed it immensely, but it had started to feel shaggy, like it had run out of places to go. There’s a certain time in a lot of our lives when we fantasize about being in bands, and those fantasies usually go something like this. They were the opposite, and that’s so much better. Inevitably, the Beasties spiralled financially over the top, relocating to LA where they rented a gigantic house featuring a swimming pool with a bridge over it, and went broke.
Jonze and his two subjects have made an honest and open film, firmly in character for a band that always seemed exceptionally comfortable in its own skin. The film was shot at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn and is essentially a live, two-man show between the two surviving Beastie Boys, Michael Diamond (aka Mike D) and Adam Horovitz (aka the King Ad-Rock). You won’t have to fight for your right to see a documentary about the hip-hop group Beastie Boys from Oscar-winning Her and Being John Malkovich director Spike Jonze, but you will have to pay for a movie ticket or Apple TV+ subscription. There are many reasons that the Beastie Boys meant so much to so many people: They were cool, they were funny, and they were brilliantly creative. “Why did the Beatles break up?” is a question that’s likely been asked by billions of people since April of 1970, and most explanations tend to ignore the most obvious answer: The Beatles broke up because they were a band, and breaking up is what bands do. All rights reserved. Middle-aged people’s timelines are speckled with funny, sweet and sometimes unbearably sad images of themselves in unlined, unformed youth, doing goofy things in milky analogue pictures from back when you had 12 or 24 exposures on your roll-film camera and getting them developed at Boots was a pricey business. There’s a ton of cool footage, particularly of the band’s earlier years. At one point, Horovitz, choking back tears, has to turn things over to Diamond for a spell, and the two men basically help each other through the remainder of the film. Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz of Beastie Boys tell you an intimate, personal story of their band, and their 40 years of friendship together.

Privacy Policy / Cookie Policy. the crime-TV spoof for their single Sabotage. The last time the band performed live as a trio was at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in support of their album Hot Sauce Committee, and following Yauch’s death in 2012, the group disbanded. (Schellenbach went on to co-found the band Luscious Jackson, and she and her former co-Beasties have long since reconciled.)

Their album Licensed to Ill was the best-selling rap album of the 1980s and the first rap album to go number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, and it stayed there for five weeks.

Rather than “growing up” and getting “real jobs,” you and your friends find lasting fortune and fame by doing that same thing you were up to at the beginning: hanging out and being creative.

The documentary is an occasion to celebrate and reflect, charting the rise, fall, and reinvention of the group against a giddy backdrop of late-20th century pop history. However, they also appear genuinely mortified at the fact that, in the early days, they fired the only woman in their original lineup: Kate Schellenbach (now the TV producer of The Late Late Show with James Corden). Here’s Why I’m Supporting Donald Trump. In 1986, their album Licensed to Ill happened, along with its fascinating and deplorable and horribly brilliant single (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) As of now, there’s no details on how the IMAX cut of the movie differs from what will be coming to Apple TV+, but if you’re a big Beastie Boys fan, you’ll probably want to go out of your way to see this one in theaters. The press release also describes Jonze as the “former grandfather” of the band, which seems to be some kind of inside joke that we don’t get, probably because we’re not cool enough. I found myself thinking about all of this while watching Beastie Boys Story, a new film directed by Spike Jonze that was originally supposed to open in IMAX on April 3 but will now debut exclusively on Apple TV+ on April 24. They were, as they fondly recall, expected to be very dangerous on their foreign tours: particularly the British tour. Certainly anyone who’s read 2018’s Beastie Boys Book (and if you haven’t, for the love of God, go read Beastie Boys Book) won’t really find much here to change their basic idea of who and what the Beastie Boys were. They speak unusually extensively about the mammoth success of Licensed to Ill, an album whose legacy the group spent much of its career aggressively attempting to distance itself from. Join Slate Plus to continue reading, and you’ll get unlimited access to all our work—and support Slate’s independent journalism. It wasn’t supposed to end this way. Affiliate links used when available.

Beastie Boys Story was written by remaining band members Mike “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “MCA” Horovitz (sadly, Adam “Ad-Rock” Yauch passed away back in 2012) along with Jonze himself, who also produced the movie as well.
All contents © 2020 The Slate Group LLC. The two men narrate their own careers, with a generous amount of archival footage of the band that goes back to its very beginnings. (Bam blesses the record as “tough.”) And make sure to stay for the massive grab bag of footage that unfolds during the film’s end credit sequence, which lasts longer than some sitcoms and is worth every second.


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