Events
Ackland Film Forum: “Boyhood” (Richard Linklater, 2014)
The Lumina Theater 620 Market Street, Chapel Hill, United StatesFilmed 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…
Ackland Film Forum: “Crooklyn” (Spike Lee, 1994)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesSet in 1970s Brooklyn, Crooklyn recounts childhood from the perspective of nine-year-old Troy Carmichael (Zelda Harris), whose coming of age unfolds within the rhythms of Black family life, neighborhood culture, and social constraint. The film balances warmth and humor with moments of rupture, revealing how maturity often arrives through confrontation with authority, injustice, and grief. Lee…