Cinema chain Alamo Drafthouse is launching Alamo Time Capsules, a retrospective film series, to kick off the new year. With screenings slated throughout the entirety of 2024, this will be the chain’s largest retrospective series yet.
Starting Jan. 5, each of Alamo Drafthouse’s forty locations across the U.S. will screen a selection of approximately 150 different films from the years 1999, 1994, 1989, 1984, 1979 and 1974 — chosen for being landmark years in cinema history. Each rotation will last six to eight weeks, with the first year, 1999, slated to run until February. 1999 films include “The Matrix,” “Cruel Intentions,” “She’s All That” and “Being John Malkovich.”
The year 1999 has personal significance to Alamo Drafthouse senior film programmer John Smith, who developed the retrospective along with programmers Jake Isgar and Jenny Nulf.
“My first job was making popcorn and tearing tickets at a second run movie theater in 1999, and I was lucky enough to get to see everything from that wild year of cinema, from ‘Blair Witch’ to ‘Magnolia’ to ‘She’s All That’ again and again and again,” said Smith. “Twenty-five years later, I’m proud that the Alamo Drafthouse team is able to bring these films back to the big screen to share with new generations all over the country.”
Although each year’s selection of titles will be announced a month before its rotation starts, audiences can expect films such as “Apocalypse Now,” “Chungking Express” and “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” among the list. The full schedule is as follows:
January and February: Time Capsule 1999
March and April: Time Capsule 1994
May and June: Time Capsule 1989
July and August: Time Capsule 1984
September through November: Time Capsule 1979
October through December: Time Capsule 1974
