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…
Ackland Film Forum: Blake Edwards, “Victor/Victoria” (1982, US)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesBlake Edwards, Victor/Victoria (1982, US) One of the first mainstream Hollywood films to frankly discuss the complexity of gender and sexuality, Blake Edwards’s Victor/Victoria is a backstage musical that continually calls into question what it means to perform. Set in Paris in the 1930s, Julie Andrews plays the titular role, an actor and singer who…
Ackland Film Forum: Charles Allen, “Sidewalk Stories” (1989, US)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesCharles Lane, Sidewalk Stories (1989, US) In this nearly silent homage to Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid (1921), Charles Lane directs and stars in a film about a street artist who unexpectedly becomes the caregiver of a toddler. Set on the streets of lower Manhattan, where Lane’s character is one of many unsheltered people struggling to get…
Ackland Film Forum: Peter Strickland, “In Fabric” (2018, UK)
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesPeter Strickland, In Fabric (2018, UK) An homage to the Italian giallo horror films of the 1970s, In Fabric is the story of a spectacular red dress, and the fate of those who fall under its spell. Funny, strange, and, at times, genuinely scary, In Fabric is the kind of film that will stick with…