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The Important Cinema Club

#240 - The Best Films of 2020

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7576 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We pick the best film of 2020! And we share our five favourite discoveries we've made this year! It's been a real rough 365 days! JUSTIN AND WILL'S 2020 PICKS (IN NO ORDER): * Survival Skills * Fight for Fury * Tommaso * Daze * On The Rocks * Spree * The Kid Detective * Red Post on Escher Street WILL AND JUSTIN'S FAVOURITE FILM DISCOVERIES: * Kaithi (2019) * The Deeper you Dig (2019) * La Notte (1961) * Kaun (1999) * The Trip Back with Florrie Fisher (1970) * Park Row (1952) * Screamplay (1985) * Devil Story (1986) * Just Great (1972) * 100 Horseman(1964)

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0:00.0

Hello, my name is Justin a clue and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

0:08.0

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today we're doing our big 2020 year-end

0:14.4

wrap-up. It's been quite a year, hasn't it, Will? Yes. What happened this year?

0:18.4

I don't know, man. It just moved past in a blur. I don't even remember any of the highlights. Movie and or otherwise.

0:24.8

I saw so many of the big movies this year. I saw Sonic the Hedgehog. I saw Birds of Prey. I saw Underwater with Kristen Stewart.

0:34.0

Oh gosh. What else did I see? I saw Doolittle. I saw the grudge. And then it all came crashing down.

0:40.0

That's right, because of the pandemic. So we all spent the rest of our time at home, getting depressed, feeling bad, knowing that the world is ending around us because elected officials won't do anything out of fear and just stupidity. And now here we are talking

0:55.1

about movies once more, trying to, I don't know, sum up a whole terrible, terrible year.

1:00.3

Annually, this is our most popular episode. And it's going to be particularly hard this year

1:05.8

because I think I don't want to speak for you, but I know that I at least saw far fewer

1:10.8

new movies this year than I think I have in any year since I was 17, I want to say.

1:18.8

I mean, God.

1:19.6

I was looking at Letterbox because you can just kind of cycle things and categorize them by year.

1:26.1

And yeah, you're right.

1:26.9

I did not see many films in 2020, especially any films that I'm like,

1:31.2

oh, yeah, this was the great ones.

1:33.6

And as I look at the list of movies that I did see this year that were new movies,

1:38.1

I mean, it's a roll call of shame.

1:40.7

It's irresistible.

1:42.3

It's Tenet.

1:43.5

It's fucking Rebecca on Netflix. It's Tenet. It's, uh, fucking Rebecca on Netflix. It's Mank, you know,

1:48.9

movies that are not, I'm just going to say, be on any top 10 list of mine. Oh, definitely

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