The preeminent dramatist of China’s rapid 21st-century growth and social transformation, Jia Zhangke has taken his boldest approach to narrative yet with his marvelous Caught by the Tides.

The film mostly adheres to the perspective of Qiaoqiao (Jia’s immortal muse Zhao Tao) as she wanders an increasingly unrecognizable country in search of long-lost lover Bin (Li Zhubin), who left their home city of Datong seeking new financial prospects. The always captivating Zhao carries the film with her delicate expressiveness, while Jia constantly evokes cinema’s ability to capture the passage of time and the persistence of change: of people, landscapes, cities, politics, ideas.

Assembled from footage shot over a span of 23 years—a beguiling mix of fiction and documentary, featuring a cascade of images taken from previous movies, unused scenes, and newly shot dramatic sequences—Caught by the Tides is a free-flowing work of unspoken longing, carried along more by music than dialogue as it looms around the edges of a poignant love story.

Our A24orror series comes to a very spooky conclusion with Bring Her Back, a disturbing descent into psychological dread from directors Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou (Talk To Me).

Bring Her Back tells the story of a brother and sister that uncover a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother. With another great performance from Sally Hawkins and a number of horrifying sequences, it’ll have you thinking long after you’ve left the theater.

Brace yourself for a haunting you won’t forget.

The Red Shoes is dancing back to The Frida with some encores as part of of our Technicolor Summer series. Directed by Powell & Pressburger, every frame is lush and painterly. The film’s 17-minute central ballet sequence remains one of the greatest ever filmed.

In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.

In the early 1930s, the 3-strip Technicolor process was introduced to audiences, inviting them to experience a world dripping with vibrant saturation for the very first time. The Technicolor Summer series ranges from familiar classics to rarely-screened gems all Summer long!

Halloween night takes a deadly turn in Blue Murder when a rogue lightning bolt transforms free-spirited nurse Blue (Jewel Bressler) into something far more sinister. Possessed by the soul of the infamous Lone Pine Killer (Bonnie Jean Tyer), Blue is suddenly overcome with an unrelenting urge to punish the deserving.

Stick around after the screening for a Q&A with Jewel Bressler, Bonnie Jean Tyer, Hunter Shigley, Colin Seifert, and Preston Gant!

Now, fueled by a killer’s instincts and a taste for vengeance, she stalks the streets, slashing through sorority queens, loudmouth punks, insufferable Karens, frat boys, and even a twisted clown. But amidst the bloodbath, she might just find some unlikely allies.

Buckets of gore, foul-mouthed kids, unstoppable badassery, and one seriously cool black dude—get ready for the most insane Halloween of all time. From the creators of Bloodsucka Jones and Xanadu Hellfire.

This program is a venue rental engagement. Member discounts and Frida Cinema comp passes not valid. The views and opinions expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of The Frida Cinema or its staff.

For the first time in The Frida Cinema’s history, we are finally playing Juno! 

Juno MacGuff (Elliot Page), a smart, sarcastic 16-year-old in the Minneapolis suburbs, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant after a casual hookup with her shy best friend, Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera). Opting against abortion but not ready for motherhood, Juno sets out to find the perfect adoptive parents—a seemingly put-together yuppie couple played by Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman.

Written by Diablo Cody in her Oscar-winning debut, Juno pairs quippy, stylized dialogue with sincere emotional beats, carving out a space in indie film where teenage girls are allowed to be complicated, self-aware, and funny without being reduced to tropes.

See It On 16MM is back with another heater as we team up for an encore of the 1974 Tobe Hoober horror masterpiece The Texas Chain Saw Massacre!

When a group of young friends take a detour through rural Texas, what begins as a sun-bleached road trip dissolves into something far more harrowing. In the middle of nowhere, they stumble upon a decaying farmhouse—and a family of cannibals. Chief among them: a towering, masked figure with a roaring chainsaw and a childlike rage. One by one, the travelers are pulled into a waking nightmare of violence, ritual, and bone-deep madness.

No comfort. No escape. Just heat, metal, and the sound of human terror.

Emma Seligman’s chaotic teen romp Bottoms is back at The Frida Cinema just in time for our Pride Month programming!

PJ and Josie are unpopular, gay, and desperate—to hook up with hot cheerleaders before graduation. Their solution? Start a high school fight club for girls, marketed as a “self-defense group” but fueled by unchecked teen delusion and deeply questionable motives. What begins as a messy ploy for clout becomes something that’s equal parts tender and violently cathartic.

This is not a coming-out story. No one’s asking for tolerance. Everyone’s already gay, and they’re busy bleeding, making out, and throwing fists. 

Join us for two screenings of James Wan’s 2004 horror classic Saw, playing this year as part of our Pride Month programming!

Two men wake up to find themselves shackled in a grimy, abandoned bathroom. As they struggle to comprehend their predicament, they discover a disturbing tape left behind by the sadistic mastermind known as Jigsaw. With a chilling voice and cryptic instructions, Jigsaw informs them that they must partake in a gruesome game in order to secure their freedom.

Join us for two screenings of James Wan’s 2004 horror classic Saw, playing this year as part of our Pride Month programming!

Two men wake up to find themselves shackled in a grimy, abandoned bathroom. As they struggle to comprehend their predicament, they discover a disturbing tape left behind by the sadistic mastermind known as Jigsaw. With a chilling voice and cryptic instructions, Jigsaw informs them that they must partake in a gruesome game in order to secure their freedom.

Saw may not wave a rainbow flag, but in the best tradition of horror, it’s deeply, delightfully queer. From its sadomasochistic aesthetics to its fixation on secrets, guilt, and transformation, Saw taps into queer-coded themes of repression and revelation. The entire franchise revolves around hidden lives, bodies under pressure, and moral tests imposed by a voyeuristic authority. Watch it again and make the choice for yourself!