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The Talented Mr. Ripley // Summer of ’99 Series
The following description was submitted by the event organizer.
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, Tomorrow Theater is 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 also 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: The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999. Directed by Anthony Minghella. Runtime: 2 hours 14 minutes. Rated R.
Letterboxd review by MM, December 13, 2013: “very attractive cast and movie but so scary and
weird”
Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) is a calculating young man who believes it’s better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie (Jude Law). Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend (Gwyneth Paltrow), plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.