Join us throughout the year for 21st Century Cult, a series celebrating the new cult canon of the 2000s and 2010s!
Frida After Dark returns this March for another late-night run of midnight movies and cult classics!
We’re dedicating March to “Queen of the Indies” Parker Posey, with three movies starring her playing this month!
The Frida Cinema commemorates Oscar season with our staff members’ favorite Best Picture winners!
Celebrate Valentine’s Day at The Frida all month-long with a series featuring beloved romances from all genres and generations!
Our February director of the month is Jordan Peele, the visionary mind behind Get Out and other modern horror classics!
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of Harry Lloyds’s Safety Last! with live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick!
Frida favorite Eraserhead returns to our screen as part of our Frida After Dark series!
Join us for an in-person Q&A with The Outwaters director Robbie Banfitch Friday night!
Join us for this month’s installment of Movie Trivia Night at 4th Street Marketplace!
Frida writing team members Josh Green and Bobby Thornson suggest another 4 films to serve as companion pieces to our 21st Century Cult series.
Frida Concessions Attendant Bobby Thornson talks with April Volunteer of the Month Yasmin Hurtado about her VOTM pick Fantastic Planet as well as her time at The Frida.
Frida writing team member Justina Bonilla talks with See It On 16mm’s Michael Aguirre in anticipation of their secret Wes Craven screening.
Frida writing team member Anthony McKelroy takes a look at Daisy von Scherler Mayer’s Party Girl.
Frida writing team member examines the controversial production and politics behind Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront.
Frida marketing intern Kenzie Koch reflects on last week’s Q&A with Clay Tatum and Whitmer Thomas for their new film The Civil Dead.
When you set out to do the impossible, it helps to find a source for inspiration…
Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954), the legendary Mexican painter and central figure in revolutionary Mexican politics and twentieth-century art, is renowned for her magnificent body of surreal, symbolic, and deeply personal art. What is less known about Kahlo is the incredible saga of integrity and perseverance inherent to her life’s story. In 1925, at the age of eighteen, Kahlo was involved in a tragic streetcar accident where she suffered multiple fractures to her spine, foot, and pelvic bones, spending the rest of her life struggling against severe pain and disability.
Where for some this would have been enough to lose oneself to despair, Kahlo turned to art to communicate her physical suffering, as well as her passions for Mexican politics and for the love of her life, Diego Rivera, whom she married in 1929. A consummate creator until her death at 47, Kahlo’s inspiring resoluteness and individualism has led to her becoming a leading icon for both the LGBT and feminist movements, as well as for the greater conversation of self-expression through art.
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