We’re turning back the clocks alllll the way to the year 2022 to present Damien Chazelle’s feverish epic Babylon as the latest entry in our 21st Century Cult series! A three-hour overdose of movie madness, it’s a kaleidoscopic descent into 1920s Los Angeles where silent cinema is dying, talkies are rising, and everyone is clawing for immortality in the ruins.

Starring Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, and Diego Calva, Babylon is as much a celebration of cinema’s chaotic birth as it is a cautionary tale about the price of ambition. With unhinged party scenes, stomach-turning slapstick, and some of the boldest filmmaking of the decade, Babylon is a film that dares to be too much—and dares you to look away.

The teasingly entwined ambiguities of love and death are explored in Misericordia, now coming to The Frida Cinema for a limited engagement!

Set in an autumnal, woodsy village in his native region of Occitanie, his latest follows the meandering exploits of Jérémie (Félix Kysyl), an out-of-work baker who has drifted back to his hometown after the death of his beloved former boss, a bakery owner. Staying long after the funeral, the seemingly benign Jérémie begins to casually insinuate himself into his mentor’s family, including his kind-hearted widow (Catherine Frot) and venomously angry son (Jean-Baptiste Durand), while making an increasingly surprising—and ultimately beneficial—friendship with an oddly cheerful local priest (Jacques Develay).

In director Alain Guiraudie’s quietly carnal world, violence and eroticism explode with little anticipation, and criminal behavior can seem like a natural extension of physical desire. The French director is at the top of his game in Misericordia, again upending all genre expectations.

A24 Films is proud to present the newest film in their 2025 slate–Sorry, Baby.

Written, directed by, and starring Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby follows Agnes, a once-promising academic whose life is frozen in the aftermath of a shattering personal betrayal—known only as “the bad thing.” Over the course of five emotionally intricate chapters, the film traces Agnes’s attempts to move forward while stuck in place, navigating the small-town routines of her adult life in New England. When her childhood friend Lydie (Naomi Ackie) returns from New York, their reunion reignites buried tensions, old comforts, and the question of whether healing is possible—or if survival is enough.

A sharply observed and darkly funny portrait of internalized grief and human connection, Sorry, Baby is both intimate and expansive, capturing the textures of time, memory, and the strange ways people grow apart, then back together.

David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch isn’t just an adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ infamous novel—it’s a hallucinatory biographical fantasia, blending Burroughs’ life, addiction, and text into one grotesque and exhilarating fever dream. And now it’s been restored in a brand new 4K restoration! 

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill’s pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work — which he doesn’t remember writing.

Starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, and Roy Scheider—and featuring otherworldly creature effects by Chris Walas (The Fly)—Naked Lunch is Cronenberg at his most cerebral and disturbing.

Just added: before the screenings of They Live this weekend, we will be screening the 8 minute short film Hi! You Are Being Recorded, the new stoner surveillance thriller from directors Kyle Greenberg & Anna Maguire!

You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they’re people just like you. You’re wrong. Dead wrong. John Carpenter’s They Live is back at The Frida Cinema.

When a down-on-his-luck drifter (wrestling legend Roddy Piper) finds a pair of sunglasses that reveal the hidden reality beneath our world—subliminal messages, skeletal overlords, and a media-controlled population—he decides it’s time to fight back. What follows is part paranoid thriller, part genre-blasting satire, and all Carpenter.

They Live is the ultimate Reagan-era gut punch—a sci-fi cult classic that hides anti-capitalist fury beneath its B-movie surface and delivers it with bubblegum, shotgun shells, and one of the greatest alleyway brawls in cinema history.