The Bay Theatre is wishing a happy 30th to some of the most iconic films of 1994 with the eagerly awaited return of our Milestone Movies: The Anniversary Collection series. Beginning Friday, July 19th, don’t miss your chance to look back at an era when smash-hit studio productions and auteur-driven indie projects alike became cultural sensations, and influenced a generation of movie-making. Every week throughout the summer, re-discover another 1994 classic!

Hollywood brought us films in ’94 that remain deeply embedded in our cultural memory, be it one of Disney’s most enduring animated classics, The Lion King, or Jan de Bont’s epic thrill-ride Speed, Robert Zemeckis’ endlessly quoted Best Picture winner Forrest Gump, or the word-of-mouth sleeper hit of that year, The Shawshank Redemption. Meanwhile, young filmmakers and indie auteurs massively disrupted the traditional idea of what could be a box office success, with artists like Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) using their distinctive voices to tread a new path for box office success, while films like Ben Stiller’s Reality Bites indelibly captured the mood of Generation X. See them all as if for the first time on the big screen! Check out the full lineup below!

The celebration of 30th anniversary films continues on Netflix! For more details, read about it on Tudum.