Events
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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…
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Ackland Film Forum: “Z” (Costa-Gavras, 1969)
The Lumina Theater 620 Market Street, Chapel Hill, United StatesYves 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…