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THE EXPERIENCE

Welcome to the SUMMER OF ’99, before smartphones, social media, and streaming. Pre-doom scroll, bed rot, and AI ubiquity. 1999 wasn’t just another year—it was THE year. The one that redefined cinema. Think: Go, All About My Mother, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Election, Three Kings, and Office Space. It was a launching pad for today’s biggest filmmakers, a breakout year for indie film, and a cultural turning point that echoes today. To honor this watershed moment in movie history, we’re teaming up with art + magazine space Chess Club and avant garde fashion boutique Stand Up Comedy to curate a season-long celebration featuring these enduring titles. The films above not only connect shared sensibilities, but reflect the language, skepticism, rage, humor, and romance that shaped a worldview. Leave your phone behind and hold onto your ticket stubs, because this is the SUMMER OF ’99.

ON SCREEN: All About My Mother 

1999. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes. Rated R.

Letterboxd review by Zā, April 3, 2017: “Fuck. She did that. And she did that. Then she did that.
But also, she did that. They all did that. I love everything.”

Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.

HOSTED BY: Chess Club

Chess Club (est. 2023) is a living index of global imaginations. It supplies humans with texts and tools for creative practices.

HOSTED BY: Stand Up Comedy

Stand Up Comedy (est. 2007) is located at 511 SW Broadway, and features clothes, objects, and print. It’s an uncomprehensive home with no fixed identity, for ideas that reflect an evolving attitude on societal norms and styles. The featured designers and artists use small swords to engage with more dominant forces, often exploring one discipline to better understand another. The store provides exposition for their narratives, proposing a de-centering of established order on how to look and what to see.

Note: We do not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, and films exhibited don’t necessarily reflect the views of PAM CUT, the Tomorrow Theater, or the Portland Art Museum. In addition to the synopses, trailers and other links on our website, further information about content and age-appropriateness for specific films can be found on sites like Common Sense Media, IMDb and DoesTheDogDie.com.