Even having just played it a few months ago, we felt that no Val Kilmer Tribute could truly be complete without showcasing his brilliant comedic work in the goof-fest that is Top Secret!

Kilmer stars as Nick Rivers, an Elvis-style American pop star sent to East Germany, where he becomes entangled in an underground resistance, a scientist’s mysterious daughter, and an increasingly deranged plot involving cows, underwater bar fights, backwards bookshelves, and ballet-dancing Nazis. It makes no sense—and that’s exactly the point!

Equal parts homage and satire, Top Secret! fires visual gags and one-liners with a machine gun’s rhythm. But it’s Kilmer—singing his own songs, keeping a straight face through total nonsense, and completely owning the camera—who turns it into something iconic, as he often did.

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.

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.

Oliver Stone’s The Doors: The Final Cut is a psychedelic firestorm—a feverish vision of the ‘60s rock myth, driven by rebellion, poetry, and the endless search for something beyond the veil. But at the center of it all is Val Kilmer, vanishing into the role of Jim Morrison with such uncanny depth, voice, and electricity that even bandmates couldn’t tell where the frontman ended and the actor began.

Following Morrison’s meteoric rise—from UCLA film student to rock god to haunted wanderer—the film pulses with chaos, charisma, and the tragic gravity of a man burning too bright, too fast. It’s a swirling mix of surreal imagery, concert ecstasy, and Stone’s trademark intensity, backed by iconic music that still rattles the bones.

Come celebrate another one of Kilmer’s most celebrated performances loud on the big screen!

“Monsters are gathering. The Earth may not survive.” The Frida Cinema is teaming up with our friends at Creature Bazaar to bring you Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster! And make sure to get there early for a book signing with authors Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski and their new book Godzilla: The First 70 Years: The Official Illustrated History Of The Japanese Productions!

Released in 1964 and still crackling with cosmic weirdness, this fourth installment in the Showa-era Godzilla series doesn’t just raise the stakes—it tears a hole in the sky and sends a golden dragon through it. Enter: King Ghidorah—a planet-destroying, three-headed space hydra who crashes to Earth in a meteor and promptly starts leveling cities.

The only hope? An uneasy alliance between Earth’s three reigning monsters: the once-terrifying Godzilla, the majestic Mothra, and the elusive Rodan. Together, they’ll grumble, fight, and eventually team up in a monster mash for the ages!

We’re bringing back encores of Kaneto Shindô’s 1964 eerie classic Onibaba! This visceral, hypnotic tale set in Japan’s medieval past, is about two women – an older mother and her young daughter-in-law-living in isolation, killing lost samurai and trading their armor for food. But when a mysterious mask enters their world, desire, jealousy, and supernatural terror take root.

Shot in striking black and white, Shindo’s film blurs the lines between eroticism and horror, realism and folklore. Tall reeds sway ominously, the wind howls, and the mask – once worn to intimidate- becomes a symbol of inner torment and karmic consequence. It’s one of the most iconic and unsettling films of Japanese cinema.

Arthouse 101: Japanese Cinema is a curated 12-film trip through the evolution of Japan—from the quiet post-war resilience of the 1940s all the way to the radical reinventions of the 1990s. Each Monday this July-September, we will explore a new facet of this incredible nation’s cinematic journey throughout the 20th century. All films will be presented in their original Japanese language with English subtitles, at a reduced ticket price of $8.