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!
Join us throughout the year for 21st Century Cult, a series celebrating the new cult canon of the 2000s and 2010s!
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!
Join us for another late-night screening of Tommy Wiseau’s The Room this Saturday!
Our 21st Century Cult series chugs along with Nicolas Winding Refn’s action drama Drive.
On the Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando, starts this Friday as part of our Best Best Pictures series.
Join us every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month for Tuesday Nights at the Parklet, a series of live events just outside our theater!
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.
Frida Blog Editor Reggie Peralta talks with March Volunteer of the Month Dean Dezara about his VOTM pick A Face in the Crowd as well as his time at The Frida.
The members of the Frida writing team share some of their overlooked film festival favorites.
Frida writing team member Anne Bergstedt analyzes the many threads of Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin.
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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