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Category: Ackland Film Forum

  • Ackland Film Forum: “Aftersun” (Charlotte Wells, 2022)

    Chelsea Theater 1129 Weaver Dairy Road, Suite AB, Chapel Hill, United States

    Set 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 States

    Filmed 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 States

    Set 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…

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  • Ackland Film Forum: “Z” (Costa-Gavras, 1969)

    The Lumina Theater 620 Market Street, Chapel Hill, United States

    Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Irène Papas headline this electrifying political thriller. A politician is assassinated in broad daylight, setting in motion an investigation that gradually exposes the distance between…

  • Ackland Film Forum: “Dog Day Afternoon” (Sidney Lumet, 1975)

    The Lumina Theater 620 Market Street, Chapel Hill, United States

    Al 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…

  • Ackland Film Forum: “Set It Off” (F. Gary Gray, 1996)

    The Lumina Theater 620 Market Street, Chapel Hill, United States

    Jada 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…

  • Ackland Film Forum: “Nightcrawler” (Dan Gilroy, 2014)

    The Lumina Theater 620 Market Street, Chapel Hill, United States

    Jake 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…