Frida Cinema Members are invited to a special early screening of American auteur Kelly Reichhardt’s (First Cow, Certain Women, Wendy & Lucy) newest film: The Mastermind! Starring Josh O’Connor and Alana Haim, is Reichardt’s detour into the crime/heist genre, told only the way that she can.

In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.

The Mastermind is being hailed as one of Reichardt’s boldest gambits. With a standout central performance by Josh O’Connor and a director pushing her signature minimalism into new terrain, it’s one of our most anticipated releases of 2025.

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Calling all cartoon lovers! Betty Boop’s Halloween Party is back for another year at The Frida Cinema, presented by Fleischer & Friends! That’s right! The queen of vintage va-va-voom is back and better than ever! Wear your favorite pajamas, gather up all your ghouls and goblins, and join us for over an hour of your favorite classic spooky toons.

Full lineup of cartoons below:

Betty Boop’s Halloween Party – 78min
Bimbo’s Initiation
Cobweb Hotel
Koko’s Haunted House
Herring Murder Case
Is My Palm Read?
Pudgy Picks a Fight 
Fresh Vegetable Mystery
Mysterious Mose
Red Hot Mama
The Runaway
Swing You Sinners

From visionary director Alex Proyas (The Crow), Dark City is a dazzling, mind-bending journey into a world where memory, identity, and reality itself are manipulated by unseen forces. Flickrhappy is proud to present the Director’s Cut of the film, restoring Proyas’ original vision in its most complete and immersive form.

Dark City follows John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell), a man who awakens in a strange city with no memory, hunted for a crime he cannot recall. As he pieces together the mystery of who he is, he discovers a truth stranger than he could imagine. With stunning visuals and haunting performances by Jennifer Connelly, Kiefer Sutherland, and William Hurt, Dark City is a surreal fusion of neo-noir mystery, dystopian thriller, visionary sci-fi, and so much more.

Celebrated upon release, Dark City won and was nominated for multiple awards, was screened out of competition at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, and earned lasting acclaim from critics and cinephiles alike. The legendary Roger Ebert named it the best film of 1998 and later enshrined it on his prestigious Great Movies list, hailing it as a masterpiece of modern science fiction, and comparing its influence to classics like Metropolis and Blade Runner.

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.

Calling all fans of everything spooky and scary! The Frida Cinema welcomes back Montopolis for our October event Ghost Almanac: An Evening Of Classic Horror!

So what is it? Ghost Almanac: An Evening of Classic Horror with Live Music by Montopolis is a multimedia event where the Austin-based indie chamber group Montopolis performs a live score with foley effects to classic horror film clips! The show features scenes from films like Nosferatu and The Skeleton Dance, combining the vintage horror of silent cinema with Montopolis’s genre-defying, modern classical music, which includes elements of rock, electronic, and ambient music.

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.

The curtain falls on our Dario Argento restrospective with a scream. For the final act, we present Opera—a film that distills all of the maestro’s obsessions into one glorious, nightmarish aria.

A young opera singer, thrust into the spotlight during a cursed production of Macbeth, finds herself stalked by a sadistic killer who forces her to watch as her friends die in increasingly elaborate set pieces. What follows is Argento’s most technically virtuosic and perversely beautiful film, where horror and high art bleed into one another—sometimes literally.

Featuring infamous sequences involving needles taped beneath the eyes, flocks of vengeful ravens, and a thunderous metal-infused score, Opera is both a love letter to cinema and a howl of rage from a filmmaker pushing the Giallo form to its breaking point. As the camera swoops, the bodies fall, and the aria rises, Opera reminds us: no one stages death like Dario Argento.