Ackland Film Forum
Ackland Film Forum Watch Party & Panel for “A Fantastic Woman”
Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket) , United StatesJoin us for the final film in the Ackland Film Forum's Global Queer Cinema Series, A Fantastic Woman (Sebastian Lelio, 2017, Chile). The series is a collaboration with the Film Studies Program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill, and features a selection of four international films presented in connection with…
Ackland Film Forum: “The Underground Railroad” First Virtual Screening
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAcross his three feature films to date (Medicine for Melancholy, Moonlight, and If Beale Street Could Talk), Barry Jenkins has devised a new cinematic vocabulary for the portrayal of Black experience in the United States. With sumptuous imagery and hypnotic soundscapes, Jenkins has embraced aesthetic beauty as a strategy for addressing the past and present…
Ackland Film Forum: “The Underground Railroad” Second Virtual Screening
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAcross his three feature films to date (Medicine for Melancholy, Moonlight, and If Beale Street Could Talk), Barry Jenkins has devised a new cinematic vocabulary for the portrayal of Black experience in the United States. With sumptuous imagery and hypnotic soundscapes, Jenkins has embraced aesthetic beauty as a strategy for addressing the past and present…
CANCELLED: Ackland Film Forum Panel | Spellbinding: The Cinematic Virtuosity of Barry Jenkins
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesUnfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances owing to the artists' schedules, this event has been cancelled. -- Across his three feature films to date (Medicine for Melancholy, Moonlight, and If Beale Street Could Talk), Barry Jenkins has devised a new cinematic vocabulary for the portrayal of Black experience in the United States. With sumptuous imagery and…
Ackland Film Forum: “The Man Who Saved the World” (1982)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesWe kick off our Global Cult Cinema series with the sci-fi/martial arts/fantasy film known as Turkish Star Wars. The Man Who Saved the World Çetin İnanç, Turkey, 1982, 1h 31m FILM SYNOPSIS Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Saved the World) is an otherwise obscure Turkish Science Fantasy Martial Arts film from 1982 directed by…
Ackland Film Forum: “Tears of the Black Tiger” (2000)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesOur Global Cult Cinema series continues with this Thai cult film blending westerns and romance. Tears of the Black Tiger Wisit Sasanatieng, Thailand, 2000, 1h 50m Introduced by Martin Johnson, UNC Dept. of English & Comparative Literature FILM SYNOPSIS "In the countryside of Thailand, a gang of outlaws makes the region unsafe. Among them is…
Ackland Film Forum: “The Big Boss” (1971)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us at the next Global Cult Cinema screening to see the kung-fu classic that made Bruce Lee famous. The Big Boss Wei Lo, Hong Kong, 1971, 1h 40m Introduced by Martin Johnson, UNC-Chapel Hill FILM SYNOPSIS Cheng, played by Bruce Lee, is a city boy who moves with his cousins to work at a…
Ackland Film Forum: “Om Shanti Om” (2007)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesA murder-mystery and romance combine in this Indian cult film that caps off our Global Cult Cinema series. Om Shanti Om Farah Khan, 2007, India, 2h 42m Introduction by Priya Shanker, UNC-Wilmington FILM SYNOPSIS In the 1970s, Om, an aspiring actor, is murdered, but is immediately reincarnated into the present day. He attempts to discover…
Ackland Film Forum: Ang Lee, “Life of Pi” (2012, US)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us for the first film in the Ackland Film Forum's Fall 2022 series "Art and Artifice"! Ang Lee, Life Of Pi (2012, US) With a special introduction by Whitney Crothers Dilley, author of The Cinema of Ang Lee: The Other Side of the Screen. A wild and improbable tale of a sixteen-year-old boy, Pi…
Ackland Film Forum: Andre DeToth, “House of Wax” (1953, US)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAndre DeToth, House Of Wax (1953, US) Although best known as one of the few films that successfully exploited the 3D fad of the 1950s, Andre DeToth’s film House of Wax begins as a sensitive portrait of a sculptor struggling to keep his small, dignified wax museum afloat. After experiencing what appears to be a…