Are you sure this podcast isn’t starting from the end? That it isn’t happening concurrently with the beginning? That what you’re listening to is reliable? That this isn't really about THE ODYSSEY?!?!

MEMENTO often pops up in lists as a 2000 movie because that was the year of its festival release, but the movie didn’t hit movie theaters for the actual buying public until 2001 so Christopher Nolan’s first widely known flick is officially in our camp. And what a movie this is!

Guy Pearce stars as Leonard, a guy who might be the most unreliable narrator to ever grace a movie screen. He’s trying to find the guy who killed his wife, but what he might find is something scarier than a murderer: the truth!

Slate walks us through a brief history of major film festivals during this week’s bonus feature before we try to remember to ask, “Does this movie matter?”

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NOT ANOTHER 2001 MOVIE PODCAST is a limited series exploring movies released in the first year of a chaotic century.

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