Watch: Metrograph’s ’25Y2K’ Screening Series ‘Y2K Bug’ Promo Trailer

“This is your life! Right here, right now!” The famed art house cinema in New York called Metrograph has introduced a new screening series of movies called 25Y2K. They’re borrowing inspiration from the brilliant Crtierion Channel collections, featuring a thematic selection of iconic movies to feature in a special package. This time they’re looking back at Y2K, and the “Millennium Bug”, and how it affected cinema. “A computer glitch that was supposed to drown the world in darkness—[was] on everyone’s lips, the air thick with the anticipation of apocalypse. Did that anxiety impress itself on some of the finest films?” Definitely. They’re showing classics like Fight Club, Pi, The Truman Show, American Psycho, Strange Days, Audition, Being John Malkovich, Vanilla Sky, American Beauty, and others. To promote the series, Metrograph cut together a quick trailer with Fatboy Slim’s “Right Here, Right Now” which samples a line from the film Strange Days. // Continue Reading ›