Join us as we present the new documentary from A24 titled Architecton, directed by Viktor Kossakovky.

An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone. Filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky raises a fundamental question: how do we inhabit the world of tomorrow?

This simultaneously epic and intimate documentary is a meditation on architecture and how the design of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destructive tendencies.

Cloud,  the stylish and subversive new thriller from suspense-maverick Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Pulse) has finally arrived at The Frida Cinema!

The story follows Yoshii, an ambitious, yet directionless, young factory worker from Tokyo who side hustles in the murky realm of black market reselling, cheating buyers and sellers alike. After swindling his way into loads of cash, Yoshii gradually attempts to disconnect from humanity, moving out of the city, shunning his girlfriend, and entrusting duties to his new, devoted assistant.

Before long his life is plagued by a series of mysterious, sinister incidents that threaten to upend his success and bring about a most violent demise. A master of carefully simmering tension to a bloody crescendo, Kurosawa delivers a searing portrait of digital greed and vengeance.

Our Technicolor Summer series slows down for a sun-drenched romantic escape with Summertime—a bittersweet story set against the breathtaking backdrop of Venice.

Katharine Hepburn stars as Jane Hudson, a middle-aged American schoolteacher fulfilling a lifelong dream of visiting Italy. Independent, curious, and slightly adrift, Jane arrives in Venice with her camera and sensible shoes, eager to soak in the beauty but wholly unprepared for what she finds: a chance at unexpected romance with Renato (Rossano Brazzi), a charming Italian antiques dealer.

Directed with warmth and restraint by David Lean, Summertime achingly romantic a perfect midsummer reverie in vivid, glowing color.

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!

See It On 16mm is back at The Frida Cinema to unspool a print of Bride Of Frankenstein, celebrating the 90th anniversary of one of cinema’s most electrifying sequels ever made!

Released in 1935, Bride of Frankenstein is widely regarded as a rare example of a sequel that surpasses the original. Combining gothic horror with biting wit, surreal visuals, and unexpected pathos, director James Whale elevated the genre to new artistic heights. Boris Karloff returns in a haunting and deeply human performance as the Monster, while Elsa Lanchester’s unforgettable turn as the Bride remains a cultural touchstone nearly a century later.

With its bold themes of creation, loneliness, and the limits of human ambition, Bride of Frankenstein continues to resonate — as relevant and provocative now as it was 90 years ago.

Fifteen years after it first shocked audiences and redefined the boundaries of art house cinema, Dogtooth returns in a stunning new 4K restoration to The Frida Cinema just in time to ruin your Summer. The breakthrough feature from visionary filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, The Favourite, Poor Things) is as provocative, surreal, and disturbingly funny as ever — now sharper and stranger than ever before.

Winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes and an Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Dogtooth is a razor-edged parable of control and conditioning. Isolated behind a fence and raised under a regime of invented truths, three adult siblings have never stepped beyond the boundaries of their family home. Language is manipulated, reality is manufactured, and any curiosity is punished with surgical precision.

With its stark visual style, bone-dry humor, and bursts of surreal violence, Dogtooth remains a landmark of weird Greek cinema — a film that startles, unsettles, and invites endless interpretation.

Slick. Sweaty. Deadly. William Friedkin’s To Live and Die in L.A. turns 40 years old this year—and it still hits like a bullet to the chest.

Coming off the heels of The French Connection and Sorcerer, Friedkin delivered this sun-scorched, Reagan-era crime thriller with the intensity of a punk rock opera. When a reckless Secret Service agent (William Petersen in his breakout role) sets out to take down a ruthless counterfeiter (a cold-blooded Willem Dafoe), the lines between justice and obsession dissolve in a haze of money, betrayal, and blood.

With its iconic Wang Chung synth score, daring car chases, and razor-sharp style, To Live and Die in L.A. is pure ’80s noir heat!