Our Technicolor Summer series goes from surreal to scrumptious with Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory—a candy-colored fantasy that has enchanted generations with just the right amount of weirdness and pitch-black humor! 

When poor but kind-hearted Charlie Bucket finds a golden ticket inside a Wonka Bar, he wins the chance of a lifetime: a tour of the mysterious, magical chocolate factory run by the reclusive and eccentric Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder, in one of the greatest screen performances of all time). Charlie joins a group of wildly different children—each one a cautionary tale—on a journey through a world of edible delights, fizzy-lifting drinks, and Oompa Loompa morals.

Whether you grew up with it or are discovering it anew, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a golden ticket to a world where imagination rules—and where the most dazzling sights often hide the strangest secrets.

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!

You’re invited to a screening of 1983’s Star Wars Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi with actors Kevin Edward Thompson and Stephen Costantino in attendance to discuss their time working on the film!

Kevin Edward Thompson played one of the Ewoks in the film, and also worked on movies such as Blade Runner, Under the Rainbow, The Goonies, Weird Science, and the two Star Wars Ewok Adventures: Caravan of Courage and Battle for Endor!

Stephen Costantino played one of Jabba the Hutt’s Gamorrean Guards in the film, also did the music for Last Lives as well as being a singer/songwriter of his own.

Both Stephen and Kevin will be on hand to meet fans and sign autographs in the lobby starting at 2PM. The rest of the schedule is as follows:

2:00PM – Doors 

3:00PM – Start of Return Of The Jedi

5:15PM – Start Q&A (moderated by Scott Zillner)

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.

Frida Cinema members are invited to a very special 30th anniversary screening of Claude Chabrol’s masterfully unsettling La Cérémonie, now restored in a beautiful 4K restoration via Janus Films!

Set in the quiet countryside of Brittany, the story follows a wealthy family who hires a new housekeeper, the enigmatic Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire). When Sophie strikes up a friendship with the town’s outspoken postal clerk, Jeanne (the legendary Isabelle Huppert), the two women form a volatile bond that builds to an unforgettable and shocking conclusion. With chilling performances and an atmosphere thick with quiet menace, La Cérémonie is a slow-burn thriller that builds to a devastating crescendo.

Winner of the César Award for Best Actress and widely considered one of Chabrol’s finest films, La Cérémonie is a must-see for fans of dark psychological drama and French cinema at its most provocative.

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Just added: actor Ed Begley Jr. will also be joining us for the Q&A after the film!

You’re invited to a special screening of 1995’s Batman Forever, the third film in the original Batman series, with the film’s writers, Lee Batchler and Janet Scott Batchler appearing for a post-screening on-stage Q&A, moderated by Scott Zillner!

Before the Dark Knight brooded in grayscale and before Gotham became “grounded,” there was Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever—a neon-drenched pop spectacle with a gothic heart and, at its center, a genuinely legendary performance by the late, great Val Kilmer as the Caped Crusader.

6:45PM – Doors Open

7:30PM – Start Batman Forever

9:45pm – Start Q&A

Celebrate the 30th anniversary of Batman Forever on the big screen and let’s give Kilmer’s Batman the flowers he’s long deserved.

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.

Hundreds of Beavers, one of the most entertaining and enduring independent films of the past decade, is coming to The Frida Cinema for one last hurrah (or ho-ho-ho?) on Friday, December 5th & Saturday, December 6th!

Called “gonzo cinema distilled from Buster Keaton to George Miller” (LA Times), “one of the most inventive comedies in years” (RogerEbert.com), that “puts most big screen comedies to shame,” (The Daily Beast), this impossible indie has become a word-of-mouth phenomenon — selling out theaters, melting Letterboxd & Rotten Tomatoes, and putting audiences worldwide into stitches.

In the early 1800’s, Jean Kayak, a drunken applejack salesman, finds himself stranded in a surreal winter landscape with nothing but his dim wits to guide him. Against a backdrop of ruthless elements and forest creatures – all played by actors in full-sized mascot costumes – Kayak develops increasingly complex traps in order to win the hand of a mischievous lover. When he discovers that the Beavers have formed their own secret society, he must infiltrate their lair to uncover their secrets and win the day.

Equal parts silent-era stunt work, Looney Tunes energy, and pure filmmaking lunacy, this is a cult hit that’s too much dam fun to stream alone at home!