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The 20 Must-See Films of 2020

The Films of 2020

Tigertail

Yang got to film his debut in Taiwan…
respect the Netflix touch with these types of productions.

Release Date: Fall 2020

Director: Alan Yang 

Why we’re dying to see it? Yang is one half the creative force behind Master of None.  Telling a generational family tale of life and sacrifice for a new beginning has us supremely interested in this Drama.  Yang has cast John Cho (if you haven’t seen Columbus, stop what you’re doing and seek it out) and the amazing Tzi Ma (recently a comedic assassin in The Farewell) as the lead character.  Netflix giving Yang the freedom to make a drama rather than forcing him into the comedic pigeonhole that many other studios would have done is one of the many reasons we want to see this.  

Mank 

There could literally be no trailer and we’d still go see it opening day.

Release Date: December 2020 

Director: David Fincher 

Why we’re dying to see it?  It’s David Fincher. After a 6-year hiatus from Film Fincher is back with a biopic about the man who wrote Citizen Kane.  Knowing Fincher’s propensity for bending genres to his will, Mank has us positively giddy. This is also a passion project for Fincher as his father Jack Fincher wrote the script. Netflix gambling big again on a project no other studio would come near (I remember back in the day when Ridley Scott tried to get RKO281 made in Black & White with Ed Norton as Orson Welles… imagine if Netflix was around then?)  Did we mention its being shot in Black & White!  Need we say more?  

West Side Story

Spielberg doing a musical? Yeah, we’re in.

Release Date: December 18, 2020 

Director: Steven Spielberg 

Why we’re dying to see it? This one is special.  Very special.  Spielberg has never directed a musical.  If that wasn’t enough of a dare, he’s added a Sondheim Musical and one that’s possibly the most beloved Musicals of the last 60 years.  


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