Ackland Film Forum
Events
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Ackland Film Forum: “Dog Day Afternoon” (Sidney Lumet, 1975)
The Lumina Theater 620 Market Street, Chapel Hill, United StatesAl 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…
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Ackland Film Forum: “Set It Off” (F. Gary Gray, 1996)
The Lumina Theater 620 Market Street, Chapel Hill, United StatesJada 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…
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Ackland Film Forum: “Nightcrawler” (Dan Gilroy, 2014)
The Lumina Theater 620 Market Street, Chapel Hill, United StatesJake 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…