Enter the world of visionary filmmaker Jean Cocteau, as we take you to where it all began–The Blood Of The Poet!

Part silent cinema séance, part avant-garde fever dream, The Blood of a Poet was made in collaboration with the legendary Vicomte de Noailles and shot in the aftermath of a scandalized art world, the film plays like a lucid dream you’re not entirely sure you woke from.

Banned, booed, and eventually canonized, The Blood of a Poet is not a film that explains itself. It folds in on itself—layered with Catholic iconography, queer longing, and the kind of experimental imagery that would echo through Lynch, Jarman, and surrealists for decades to come.

July’s Volunteer Of The Month pick is Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, courtesy of River!

A meticulously crafted tale of murder, theft, pastry, poetry, and polite panic, The Grand Budapest Hotel is Anderson at his most whimsical, melancholic, and madcap. Set in a fictional Eastern European republic between the wars, the film charts the adventures of legendary concierge Gustave H. (a pitch-perfect Ralph Fiennes) and his loyal lobby boy Zero as they’re swept into a plot involving a stolen painting, a greedy family, prison breaks, fascists, and a disappearing world of civility.

Blending Anderson’s signature pastel-perfect aesthetics with a screwball crime caper and a poignant elegy for lost elegance, the film boasts an ensemble bursting at the seams: Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Saoirse Ronan, Jeff Goldblum, F. Murray Abraham, Harvey Keitel, Léa Seydoux, Jude Law, and—of course—Bill Murray.

Celebrate 50 years of Robert Altman’s 1975 magnum opus, Nashville, as part of our Fireworks At The Frida series!

With unforgettable performances from Lily Tomlin, Karen Black, Keith Carradine, Ronee Blakley, and Henry Gibson, the film skips between recording studios, campaign buses, traffic jams, and concert stages—capturing a cross-section of American life that feels both impossibly specific and disturbingly timeless. It’s more than a musical. More than a satire. More than a political drama.

Nominated for five Academy Awards and still a towering achievement in ensemble storytelling, Nashville holds up a cracked mirror to American identity—how we perform it, profit from it, and try to hold onto it even as it slips away.

For the first time in The Frida Cinema’s history, we are presenting a very special run of the 1993 Western classic Tombstone, with an emphasis on celebrating Val Kilmer’s electric performance as the legendary Doc Holliday! And to mark the occasion, we are, of course, running the brand new 4K restoration!

Directed by George P. Cosmatos (and, unofficially, co-directed by Kurt Russell), Tombstone tells the true-ish story of Wyatt Earp and his brothers as they attempt to leave the law behind and settle into a quiet life in Arizona—only to be drawn into a violent showdown with the outlaw gang known as the Cowboys. It’s lightning-fast, guns-blazing, and has an absolutely stacked cast.

In honor of Kilmer’s legendary performance and enduring legacy, we’re bringing the O.K. Corral back to the big screen—where legends belong.