Watch: Metrograph’s ’25Y2K’ Screening Series ‘Y2K Bug’ Promo Trailer
by Alex Billington
November 20, 2023
Source: YouTube
“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.
Here’s the official promo trailer for Metrograph’s 25Y2K screening series, direct from YouTube:
Metrograph introduction: “As the 20th century drew to a close, the words ‘millennium bug‘—a computer glitch that was supposed to drown the world in darkness—were on everyone’s lips, the air thick with the anticipation of apocalypse. Did that anxiety impress itself on some of the finest films being released at fin de siècle, by exemplary artists like David Cronenberg, Tsai Ming-liang, and Michael Mann / Michael Haneke? Maybe… but what’s certain is the moment brought a bumper crop of cinematic excellence to the screen, and after 25 years we’re bringing back some of our favorites, films whose end-of-days paranoia has no expiration date.” Metrograph is located at 7 Ludlow Street (see Google Maps) in NYC’s Chinatown neighborhood. For more info on the films / screenings, head to Metrograph’s website. Not everything will be shown in theaters, the rest of the selection will be available for streaming via their “At Home” service. Want to watch all these?
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