1999
16 Episodes
It’s been twenty-five years since cinema bid the twentieth century farewell with an extraordinary batch of films. In retrospect, 1999 was a time of intriguing cross-pollinations between the studios and independents, national and international productions, and high and low culture. Bringing together art-house favorites (BEAU TRAVAIL, GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI), Hollywood hits (GIRL, INTERRUPTED; THE INSIDER), and new cult classics (GO, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES), this cinematic time capsule takes us back to the premillennial, pre-smartphone, dial-up moment just before the world as we knew it seemed to change forever.
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01:09Episode 1
1999 Teaser
Episode 1
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Go
Episode 2
Directed by Doug Liman • 1999 • United States
Starring Sarah Polley, Timothy Olyphant, Katie HolmesDirector Doug Liman’s follow-up to SWINGERS is a hyperkinetic, MDMA-fueled cult joyride that bounces, with whiplash-inducing abandon, between a coterie of twentysomething Californians chasing drug...
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2:37:48Episode 3
The Insider
Episode 3
Directed by Michael Mann • 1999 • United States
Starring Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher PlummerBased on a true story, Michael Mann’s coolly riveting exposé of corporate corruption recounts the chain of events that pitted an ordinary man against the tobacco industry and dragged two people...
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1:36:58Episode 4
The Virgin Suicides
Episode 4
Directed by Sofia Coppola • 1999 • United States
Starring Kirsten Dunst, Kathleen Turner, James WoodsWith this debut feature, Sofia Coppola announced her singular vision, exploring the aesthetics of femininity while illuminating the interior lives of young women. An adaptation of Jeffrey Eugeni...
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1:51:54Episode 5
The Straight Story
Episode 5
Directed by David Lynch • 1999 • United States
Starring Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean StantonIn between the dark, florid surrealism of the LA-set neonoirs LOST HIGHWAY and MULHOLLAND DR., director David Lynch took a detour to America’s heartland for this surprisingly down-to-eart...
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1:33:22Episode 6
Beau travail
Episode 6
Directed by Claire Denis • 1999 • France
Starring Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire ColinWith her ravishingly sensual take on Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd, Sailor,” Claire Denis firmly established herself as one of the great visual tone poets of our time. Amid the azure waters and sunbaked ...
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2:01:01Episode 7
Bringing Out the Dead
Episode 7
Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1999 • United States
Starring Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John GoodmanThis searing collaboration between director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader continues their ongoing inquiry into questions of guilt, torment, faith, and existential meaning. S...
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2:07:29Episode 8
Girl, Interrupted
Episode 8
Directed by James Mangold • 1999 • United States
Starring Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Brittany MurphyBased on a true story, this searingly intense portrait of adolescent turmoil provides a powerhouse showcase for an ensemble of dynamic young actors, including Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Cle...
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2:22:08Episode 9
Summer of Sam
Episode 9
Directed by Spike Lee • 1999 • United States
Starring John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira SorvinoSpike Lee’s fever-pitch vision of murder, mass hysteria, and machismo run amok charts the escalating paranoia within an Italian American Bronx neighborhood during the sweltering summer of 1977 as the...
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The Limey
Episode 10
Directed by Steven Soderbergh • 1999 • United States
Starring Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Lesley Ann WarrenSteven Soderbergh’s stylish, fascinatingly fractured revenge thriller stars Terence Stamp as a British ex-con who, following his release from prison, heads to Los Angeles to investigate hi...
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1:30:01Episode 11
Bye Bye Africa
Episode 11
Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun • 1999 • Chad, France
Starring Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Garba Issa, Aïcha YelenaThe first feature by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (and the first ever made in Chad) is an autobiographical semidocumentary in which the director plays a version of himself, an African filmmaker...
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Trick
Episode 12
Directed by Jim Fall • 1999 • United States
Starring Christian Campbell, John Paul Pitoc, Tori SpellingThe Doris Day–style romantic comedy gets a gay 1990s update in this charming, sweetly sexy tale of two Greenwich Village guys—shy aspiring Broadway composer Gabriel (Christian Campbell) and hu...
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1:45:19Episode 13
Buena Vista Social Club
Episode 13
Directed by Wim Wenders • 1999 • Germany, United States
Traveling from the streets of Havana to the stage of Carnegie Hall, this revelatory documentary captures a forgotten generation of Cuba’s brightest musical talents as they enjoy an unexpected encounter with world fame. The veteran vocalists...
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Following
Episode 14
Directed by Christopher Nolan • 1999 • United Kingdom
Starring Jeremy Theobald, Alex HawBefore he became a sensation with the twisty revenge story MEMENTO, Christopher Nolan fashioned this low-budget, 16 mm black-and-white neonoir with comparable precision and cunning. Providing irrefutable evi...
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1:56:08Episode 15
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Episode 15
Directed by Jim Jarmusch • 1999 • United States
Starring Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Cliff GormanJim Jarmusch combined his love for the ice-cool crime dramas of Jean-Pierre Melville and Seijun Suzuki with the philosophical dimensions of samurai mythology for an eccentrically postmodern take o...
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1:33:54Episode 16
Ratcatcher
Episode 16
Directed by Lynne Ramsay • 1999 • United Kingdom
Starring Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, William EadieIn her breathtaking and assured debut feature, Lynne Ramsay creates a haunting evocation of a troubled Glasgow childhood. Set during Scotland’s national garbage strike of the mid-1970s, RATCAT...