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Category: Ackland Film Forum

  • Ackland Film Forum: “Z” (Costa-Gavras, 1969)

    The Lumina Theater 620 Market Street, Chapel Hill, United States

    Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Irène Papas headline this electrifying political thriller. A politician is assassinated in broad daylight, setting in motion an investigation that gradually exposes the distance between official narratives and lived reality. Racing ahead with remarkable urgency, Z channels late-1960s anti-authoritarian currents and the growing sense that democratic institutions can no longer be…

  • Ackland Film Forum: “Dog Day Afternoon” (Sidney Lumet, 1975)

    The Lumina Theater 620 Market Street, Chapel Hill, United States

    Al Pacino and John Cazale lead one of the defining crime films of the 1970s. What begins as a poorly planned Brooklyn bank robbery soon becomes a public spectacle shaped by television cameras, police theatrics, and an increasingly invested crowd. Made in the aftermath of Watergate, the film finds humor, empathy, and absurdity amid a…

  • Ackland Film Forum: “Set It Off” (F. Gary Gray, 1996)

    The Lumina Theater 620 Market Street, Chapel Hill, United States

    Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, and Vivica A. Fox anchor this energetic reworking of the heist film. After a series of setbacks leaves four Black women with few viable paths forward, they embark on a string of increasingly audacious bank robberies. Blending humor, suspense, and tragedy, Set It Off captures both the bonds of friendship and the…

  • Ackland Film Forum: “Nightcrawler” (Dan Gilroy, 2014)

    The Lumina Theater 620 Market Street, Chapel Hill, United States

    Jake Gyllenhaal delivers a career-defining performance as an ambitious freelancer who prowls Los Angeles after dark in search of footage for local television news. The city's nocturnal landscape of police sirens, flashing lights, and breaking stories becomes the backdrop for a mordant examination of ambition, competition, and media culture in the twenty-first century. This film…