Ackland Film Forum
Events

Ackland Film Forum: Color Triumphant in Silent Film
Chelsea Theater 1129 Weaver Dairy Road, Suite AB, Chapel Hill, United StatesContrary to popular myth, color didn’t arrive to the movies when Dorothy landed in Oz. While Hollywood studios embraced black and white cinematography in the sound era, reserving the use…

Ackland Film Forum: “Mississippi Masala” (Mira Nair, 1991)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesMira Nair’s second feature film, and her first set in the United States, tells the story of Ugandan Indian family who is forced to leave their country after the dictator…
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Ackland Film Forum: “Aftersun” (Charlotte Wells, 2022)
Chelsea Theater 1129 Weaver Dairy Road, Suite AB, Chapel Hill, United StatesSet during a modest holiday at a Turkish resort in the early 2000s, Aftersun approaches coming of age obliquely, through memory and retrospection. Stunningly shot on 35mm film, which is contrasted…

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…

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…