Low-rise jeans, the Sony Discman, “…Baby One More Time” and the tamagotchi. The year 1999 was a pop-infused period packed with Y2K cyberculture and new millennium fashion. It was also an unusually good year for film. From bumbling Brit rom-com “Notting Hill” to the Handycam horror of “The Blair Witch Project,” the range of commercial and critical hits has proved near unrivaled in movie history. If you are ready to revisit (or, for some of our Gen Z readers, discover for the first time) the cinematic highs of 25 years ago, the Yorck cinema chain is currently offering the opportunity. Their Back to 1999 series is putting nineties nostalgia on the big screen with showings of classic turn-of-the-century films (continues throughout November). Running at eight Yorck cinemas, the program includes mind-bending fantasy “Being John Malkovich” (31.10 & 03.11) and the erotic mystery “Eyes Wide Shut” with Cruise, Kidman and Kubrick (21 & 24.11). The final film in the series is “The Matrix” (28.11), which is always worth a rewatch – not least because it nails our current predicament with eerie accuracy: a population imprisoned in a machine-created virtual world, with everyone living in their own (not so real) reality. Now where did I put my red pills?
Text: Benji Haughton / Photos: Daniel Horn / Film Still: The Talented Mr. Ripley
Back to 1999 is showing at eight Yorck cinemas throughout November – see full program and book tickets here.
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