Revisit the work of one of modern cinema’s most penetrating filmmakers with our Todd Field Retrospective!
Join us this January for 21st Century Cult, a series celebrating the new cult canon of the 2000s and 2010s!
Come on out for our British Rock Invasion series, a month-long selection of movies by or about British rock and rollers!
Tiptoe on over for Hitchcock Double Trouble December, featuring back to back screenings of the director’s thrillers!
Join us this December for Christmas Classics, a collection of not-so-traditional holiday favorites to get in the spirit of the season!
Join us this November for Remembering Godard, a series celebrating the life and films of Jean-Luc Godard!
Join us for another late-night screening of Tommy Wiseau’s The Room this Saturday!
A24 does it again with When You Finish Saving the World, the directorial debut of Jesse Eisenberg.
Join Arvida Books this Thursday for a screening and post-film discussion of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner: The Final Cut!
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 Bobby Thornson talks with February Volunteer of the Month Nicole Henriquez about her VOTM pick Cry-Baby as well as her time at The Frida.
Anthony & Miquela discuss the year in movies and compare top fives. Then later, we take a glimpse at what’s coming in 2023.
Frida writing team member Austin Jaye examines the unsettling “anti-nostalgia” underlying Skinamarink.
Frida writing team member Bobby Thornson analyzes Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO and other instances of anthropomorphism in art.
Frida writing team member Penny Folger explores the gritty action of Assault on Precinct 13.
Frida writing team member Anthony McKelroy takes a deep dive into 2001’s Josie and the Pussycats.
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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