FILM // Class of 1999: A Most Original Year: Run Lola Run. With post-screening lecture.

November 9 | 1 pm

Presented in Whiteman Hall. Limited capacity.

TICKETS: Free for Members | $8 for the general public

Lola answers a call from her boyfriend Manni, a small-time courier for a big-time gangster. He has a problem - his boss is coming to pick up 100,000 Deutsche Marks in twenty minutes, but he doesn’t have the money. With Manni’s life on the line, Lola runs through the streets of Berlin to reach him and somehow pick up 100,000 marks along the way, making split-second decisions and encountering acquaintances, family, and strangers. As the clock ticks down, the tiniest choices become life-altering (or life-ending), and the fine line between fate and fortune begins to blur.

Estimated runtime: 81 min. Rated R.

LEARN // Best. Movie. Year. Ever with Brian Raftery

Join Brian Raftery, author of Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen, for a lecture and discussion of his book and the films in the accompanying series 1999: A Most Original Year. Following the lecture, there will be a book signing with copies for sale at The Museum Store.

In 1999, Hollywood as we know it exploded with landmark titles including The Virgin Suicides, Being John Malkovich, Election, Run Lola Run, and Magnolia, pushing cinema to new limits. Freed from the restraints of budget and technology, they produced a slew of classics that took on every topic imaginable. The result was a highly unruly, deeply influential set of films that would not only change filmmaking, but also give us our first glimpse of the coming 21st century. Best. Movie. Year. Ever. features more than 130 new and exclusive interviews with directors and actors such as Reese Witherspoon, Edward Norton, Steven Soderbergh, Sofia Coppola, David Fincher, Nia Long, Matthew Broderick, and dozens more.

1999 Film Series is made possible by Fit Via Vi Films and Zia Records

Performing Arts Programming at Phoenix Art Museum is made possible in part by the generosity of the Angel and Leonard Singer Endowment for Performing Arts