Celebrate 25 years of Wong Kar Wai’s In The Mood For Love with a brand new 4K restoration and a post-screening nine minute short film entitled In The Mood For Love 2001.

In The Mood For Love: Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man Yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching musical soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping Bing, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past 25 years of cinema.

In The Mood For Love 2001: Initially conceived as one third of a triptych about food, In the Mood for Love was expanded into a stand-alone feature that won immediate recognition as a modern-day classic. Another third—intended as the “dessert,” as Wong Kar Wai has put it—was, until now, only screened during his masterclass at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Now available in wide release for the first time, In the Mood for Love 2001 demonstrates the director’s masterful ability to generate palpable atmosphere and striking characterizations on a miniature canvas—with In the Mood for Love stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung Man Yuk once again providing the sizzling chemistry— evoking the mystery of transient, unexpected connections in the modern city through his inimitable romantic touch.

Jackie Chan’s Police Story is turning 40 years old—and we’re bringing it back to the big screen at The Frida Cinema for a limited run! 

Before CGI, before Hollywood figured out who Jackie Chan was, and before every action hero pretended to risk their life for the shot—there was Police Story. Directed by and starring Chan at the absolute height of his powers, this Hong Kong masterpiece redefined the genre with bone-breaking stunts, insane choreography, and a perfect blend of comedy, chaos, and pure cinematic adrenaline.

Chan plays Inspector Chan Ka-Kui, a cop framed for murder who takes on a corrupt system with nothing but fists, loyalty, and an unbreakable moral code. What follows: exploding shanty towns, bus-top chases, and one of the most legendary mall-set finales in action history. (Yes, that glass-shattering pole-slide.)

Pee-wee’s Big Adventure is turning 40, and you better believe we’re playing it!

Before the Large Marge nightmares, before the Alamo letdowns, before you learned what a “Pet-O-Rama” even was… there was the bike. And for Pee-wee Herman, the bike meant everything. Released in 1985 and directed by a then-unknown Tim Burton, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure is the movie that launched a thousand catchphrases, made breakfast machines cool again, and turned a gray-suited man-child with a red bowtie into a pop icon.

Co-written by Paul Reubens and the legendary Phil Hartman, the film is a candy-colored cross-country odyssey filled with ex-cons, cowboys, biker gangs, dinosaurs, and one very memorable basementless Alamo. As surreal as it is sincere, Big Adventure is a perfect mix of Burton’s gothic whimsy and Reubens’ manic, offbeat charm—an outsider comedy that became a generation’s inside joke.

One role. Two twins. A thousand iconic moments. Lindsay Lohan’s star-making double debut The Parent Trap is finally coming to The Frida Cinema!

Identical twins Annie and Hallie, separated at birth and each raised by one of their biological parents, discover each other for the first time at Summer Camp and make a plan to bring their wayward parents back together.

The Parent Trap into a generation-defining family film. Whether you grew up quoting the handshake, dreaming of Napa Valley, or wondering how one actress could pull all that off, this movie owns a piece of your childhood. Directed with charm and sparkle by Nancy Meyers, this endlessly rewatchable reimagining of the 1961 Disney classic features a delightful supporting cast: Natasha Richardson, Dennis Quaid, and Elaine Hendrix as the perfectly wicked Meredith Blake—a villain so stylish, we all kinda rooted for her?

Banned. Protested. Worshipped. See It On 16MM is back with another screening on celluloid, and this time it’s John Waters’ dirty masterpiece Pink Flamingos!

Welcome to Baltimore’s trashiest backyard, where the grass is plastic, the chickens are nervous, and Divine reigns supreme. Part shock comedy, part underground rebellion, Pink Flamingos (1972) is John Waters’ cult atomic bomb—an unholy hybrid of sleaze, satire, and pure punk provocation that shattered the rules of good taste and built a throne from the pieces.

Starring the legendary Divine in her filth-crowned breakout role, Pink Flamingos follows a depraved battle for the title of “Filthiest Person Alive,” with kidnappings, foot-licking, meat theft, and one very infamous dog-walk that sealed the film’s place in midnight movie infamy. The competition? Mink Stole and David Lochary as the Marble family—suburban perverts running a black market baby ring out of a pink split-level. It only gets worse (and by worse, we mean better) from there.