Twenty Questions

Jun 3, 2017

1h 0m

★ 0.0

It's about life… It's about death… It's about everything… well, sort of.

Overview

Twenty people, from all walks of life, are each locked alone in a room for the length of one 400-foot roll of 16mm film (11 minutes). They are each given the same set of twenty questions, which they can answer at random...if they're not completely distracted by their surroundings. Shot in 1987.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Generic Films

Twenty Questions Trailers

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The action is placed in a cramped flat in Warsaw’s district of Ochota. A father and a son, both bedridden, live in a fascinating symbiosis. The son, a well‑known photographer Bernard ben Dobrowolski, is lying in bed because a chronic condition has deformed his body and immobilized him. The father, Dominik, has recently suffered from a stroke. Now they are taking care of each other and crowds of visitors move through their room.

7.5

Speeding, of Course

Mar 6, 2025

70-year-old Timo makes the most of his short ride to work. Speeding up on a bicycle ends up in a ditch, but the adrenaline rush leaves a feeling of pleasure.

0.0

White Death

Oct 1, 2014

Impressionist portrait of a landscape forged by tragedy. A ghostly wanderer among the vestiges of a story where 44 young soldiers and a sergeant were pushed to their deaths

6.0

Cosmic Zoom

Feb 2, 1968

This short animation transports us from the farthest conceivable point of the universe to the tiniest particle of existence, an atom of a living human cell. The art of animation and animation camera achieve this exhilarating journey with a freshness and clarity. Without words.

5.6

The Snowshoers

Feb 1, 1958

This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB's newly formed French Unit. Today, Les raquetteurs is considered a precursor to the birth of direct cinema.

3.6

Mario Banana I

Dec 7, 1964

Mario Montez in drag eats a banana.

6.6

A Diary for Timothy

Nov 1, 1945

A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944.

5.8

Housing Problems

Jan 1, 1935

The problem of slum dwellings in the 1930s.

7.4

Rain

Dec 14, 1929

A lyrical portrait of Amsterdam and its changing appearance during a rain-shower.

6.0

Lorelei Lee

Feb 13, 2009

Porn actress Lorelei Lee talks about her life, her job and her ambitions.

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6.0

Let's Dance

Jan 4, 1936

Choreographer Dave Gould and his students demonstrate various tap dancing steps. Also featured are an adagio and Russian sword dancers.

6.3

Who's Out There?

Jan 1, 1975

Orson Welles — with contributions from scientists George Wald, Carl Sagan, and others — examines the possibility and implications of extraterrestrial life. In examining our perceptions of alien 'martians' from his "War of the Worlds" broadcast, to then-modern explorations of Mars, this film from NASA provides a unique glimpse at life on earth, and elsewhere in the universe.

6.4

Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick

Jan 1, 1965

Andy directs Edie for a screen test.

6.0

Seven Reeds, One Dress

Oct 1, 1948

A short documentary on the production of rayon, shot in Torviscosa (Italy). It portrays the production of this new synthetic fabric in the small town of Torviscosa, entirely built following strict fascist canons.

7.1

A Is for Atom

Jan 1, 1953

General Electric sponsors this explanation of atomic energy, detailing some of its uses besides the bomb. Using animation and an off-screen narrator, the film describes the atom, elements and isotopes, the discovery of transmutation, experiments in artificial transmutation, and the reasons for the power of nuclear fission. The film argues that now, besides war, the atomic age holds promise for energy, farming, medicine, and research. The promise of the atomic age will depend on human wisdom.

5.0

The Gnomist

Apr 24, 2015

Deep in the forest of Overland Park, Kansas little gnomes made a home. But how did they get there? Experience the feel-good story of paying it forward, one tiny magical house at a time.

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0.0

Wave Form

Mar 29, 2015

Psychedelic animated short capturing the spirit of surfing

4.4

Marijuana

Dec 31, 1968

Sonny Bono appears onscreen to tell kids that marijuana is a "bummer" that turns you into a "weedhead" and will make you "trip out" (the fact that, based upon his performance, Sonny appears to have ingested unknown substances before the cameras started rolling tends to limit the film's crediblity somewhat).

6.0

An Opera of Violence

Nov 18, 2003

First part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in 1968. (Followed by The Wages of Sin.)