Ackland Film Forum: “Boyhood” (Richard Linklater, 2014)
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Filmed over twelve years with the same cast members who conspicuously age from segment to segment, Boyhood offers one of cinema’s most literal and radical explorations of coming of age. Following Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from early childhood through his first days of college, the film refuses traditional narrative climaxes in favor of accumulation: small moments, shifting family dynamics, and incremental changes in perception as time itself figures as the “main character.” Linklater’s method allows us to experience maturation as something lived, uneven, and quietly profound.
The film will be introduced by Rick Warner, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor and Director of Film Studies.
This film will be screened at 7:30 p.m. at The Lumina Theater (620 Market St, Chapel Hill, NC 27516).
Tickets are free for all audience members, and registration is required via The Lumina’s webpage. Please click here to reserve your free ticket. UNC-Chapel Hill students can receive CLE credit for attending by scanning the QR code at the event.
About the Series:
Join the Ackland Film Forum this spring for Growing Up, Looking Back, a series that accompanies the Ackland exhibition Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men. This semester’s series highlights the filmgoing experience by using three local movie theaters as its venues.
This film series is dedicated to the memory of Allison Portnow Lathrop, former Head of Public Programs at the Ackland Art Museum. For more than a decade, Allison was an indispensable champion of film culture on campus and in Chapel Hill, most notably through her visionary stewardship of the Ackland Film Forum. She fostered a spirit of generous collaboration among faculty, students, and artists. Her belief in the power of cinema lives on in the conversations and shared experiences she helped create.
The Ackland Film Forum is co-organized by the Ackland Art Museum and UNC Film Studies, housed in the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of English and Comparative Literature.
