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"In both cinema and the world at large, there was before 2001 and there was after 2001. For movie lovers, there will always be the cinematic and cultural meaning of the year as enshrined by Stanley Kubrick in 1968 as a beacon of future shock and a symbol of human endeavor. But when that year finally came, it was indeed a herald of larger shifts that had begun to take place at the turn of the millennium. We had made it through the clamor and paranoia of Y2K, but the internet had only begun to transform our relationships to ourselves and others; the dot-com bubble had already burst; and the harbinger of early digital video was starting to make itself known, many years before it would change the way movies were shot, distributed, projected, and consumed. And, of course, the cataclysmic events of September 11 changed how we saw and experienced the world.
It also happened to be a spectacular movie year, many films of which seem unusually remarkable in their greatness and for the prescient ways they predicted the century to come, in both theme and form. This series pays tribute to the films (and, in one case, a television series) of that spectacular year, which still hold sway over the imaginations of movie lovers everywhere—a treasure trove of new classics all celebrating their 25th anniversaries.
All the films in this series either world premiered or had their U.S. premieres in 2001."—Museum of the Moving Image