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20 Minutes In
by Robert Beames
Join filmmaker Tom Oliver and ex-critic Robert Beames as they dissect the first twenty minutes of the great, good and godawful of cinema history.At a California convenience store, a man in a bathrobe and sandals writes a 69¢ cheque for a carton of milk. In provincial France, townspeople sing about mundane concerns while one young woman gets lost in books and dreams of more. Amidst dense jungle, dozens of armed men fail to control a single dinosaur despite their advanced technology.Beginnings set the tone, with the greatest movies establishing characters, themes, and setting up story from the opening moments. Likewise, the problems that define bad films can usually be seen within the opening minutes.Who are our characters? What do they want? What is the movie about? Join Tom and Rob as they try to answer those questions of more as they go 20 Minutes In.
Episodes
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#12 - Barry Lyndon
How do you go from the opening 20 minutes of Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon to a dissection of empathy and modern incel culture? Join Rob and Tom to find out!
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#11 - Promethues
Join Rob and Tom as they dissect the first 20 minutes of Ridley Scott's divisive return to the world of Alien, 2012's Promethues
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#10 - Memento
In which Rob and Tom are joined once again by special guest Craig Ennis, to work out the labyrinthine opener for Christopher Nolan's 2000 thriller Memento.
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#9 - The Avengers
In which Rob & Tom are joined by friend and 20MinsIn fan Craig Ennis to dissect the opening 20 mins of 2012's The Avengers, ahead of the release of Avengers: Endgame
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#8 - Do The Right Thing
In which Rob and Tom appraise the opening twenty minutes of Spike Lee's seminal 1989 classic, Do The Right Thing
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#7 - Cloud Atlas
In which Rob and Tom look back at the wildly ambitious and utterly strange cloud Atlas
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#6 - Seven Samurai
In which Rob and Tom discuss Kurosawa's 1954 masterpiece Seven Samurai.
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#5 - Ready Player One
In which Rob and Tom enter the Oasis to try and figure out why Spielberg made Ready Player One.
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#4 - The Master
In which Rob and Tom examine the opening twenty minutes one of Paul Thomas Anderson's finest and most overlooked films, The Master
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#3 - Only Yesterday
In which Rob and Tom celebrate the work of the late Isao Takahata with a look at the opening of his oft-overlooked masterpiece Only Yesterday.
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#2 - Jurassic Park
In which Rob and Tom wash the taste of Pixels from their mouths by reliving the opening of a mutual favourite: the original Jurassic Park.
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#1 - Pixels
In which Rob and Tom introduce themselves and discuss the inspiration for the podcast
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Join filmmaker Tom Oliver and ex-critic Robert Beames as they dissect the first twenty minutes of the great, good and godawful of cinema history.At a California convenience store, a man in a bathrobe and sandals writes a 69¢ cheque for a carton of milk. In provincial France, townspeople sing about mundane concerns while one young woman gets lost in books and dreams of more. Amidst dense jungle, dozens of armed men fail to control a single dinosaur despite their advanced technology.Beginnings set the tone, with the greatest movies establishing characters, themes, and setting up story from the opening moments. Likewise, the problems that define bad films can usually be seen within the opening minutes.Who are our characters? What do they want? What is the movie about? Join Tom and Rob as they try to answer those questions of more as they go 20 Minutes In.
HOSTED BY
Robert Beames
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Join filmmaker Tom Oliver and ex-critic Robert Beames as they dissect the first twenty minutes of the great, good and godawful of cinema history.At a California convenience store, a man in a bathrobe and sandals writes a 69¢ cheque for a carton of milk. In provincial France, townspeople sing about...
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