Stories from 20/20 Film Site
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Space Tourists
20/20 Film Site &bull Dec 23, 2011
Christian Freis meticulously contrasted documentary explores the redefined frontiers of space from two very perspectives. In the first, we're shown how wealth can purchase an exalted individual passage into space for the ultimate in fantasy fulfilment. In the second, the impoverished masses scour the broken landscape for space junk, grasping for buckled pieces that rockets have shrugged off through their various phases of flight away from the… Full Story »
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For All Mankind
20/20 Film Site &bull Dec 14, 2011
When gifted with a chance to view thousands of hours of previously unreleased NASA footage from nine manned flights to the moon between December 1968 and November 1972, director Al Reinerts approach was to orchestrate a composite viewpoint for his… Full Story »
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Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
20/20 Film Site &bull Oct 26, 2011
An early figure from the career of Nick Cave and his seminal band, The Birthday Party, guitarist Rowland S. Howard would later leave his own mark on the local music scene. Beginning in the wild days of Melbourne pub rock of the 1970's with Cave and… Full Story »
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- Dwayne Johnson
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The House of the Devil
20/20 Film Site &bull Oct 14, 2011
by David O'Connell Writer-director Ti West added copious servings of comedy to the mix when writing his most recent chiller, The Innkeepers. Recently, at the Melbourne International Film Festival, he... Full Story »
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Tornado Alley 3D
20/20 Film Site &bull Oct 10, 2011
by David O'Connell For newcomers to the craze of pursuing deadly weather events conjured by Mother Nature, Sean Casey's Imax short Tornado Alley will be a tasty bite-size introduction to... Full Story »
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- IMAX
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CORPO CELESTE @ The Italian Film Festival
20/20 Film Site &bull Sep 21, 2011
by David O'Connell Writer-director Alice Rohrwacher's Corpo celeste is a welcome dosage of social realism from Italy. Taking her cue from the visual aesthetic perenially employed by the Dardennes brothers... Full Story »
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- Brothers
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ESCORT IN LOVE @ The Italian Film Festival
20/20 Film Site &bull Sep 16, 2011
Using cliches as crutches, writer-director Massimiliano Bruno has taken a very safe route with his latest film, Escort in Love (Nessuno mi puo giudicare) (2011). No shipping into unchartered waters for Bruno who, with co-writer Edoardo Falcone, contrives a scenario in which as 33 year old woman used… Full Story »
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A QUIET LIFE @ The Italian Film Festival
20/20 Film Site &bull Sep 14, 2011
Claudio Cupellinis A Quiet Life is a masterful turning of the screw, a quietly evolving tale of vengeful ghosts of the past returning to claim a darkened soul from his temporary state of grace. Rosario (Toni Servillo) has much to envy:… Full Story »
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LOST KISSES @ The Italian Film Festival
20/20 Film Site &bull Sep 8, 2011
by David O'Connell Roberta Torre's spasmodic Lost Kisses is a missed opportunity. This lackadaisical film about a 13 year old girl in the town of Librino revered for a vision... Full Story »
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MABUL @ The Israeli Film Festival
20/20 Film Site &bull Sep 2, 2011
by David O'Connell The latest film from one of Israel's most interesting directors, Guy Nattiv, is a triumph of complex characterisations, interwoven stories and the hardships of coming-of-age. In Mabul... Full Story »
