Our friends at See It On 16mm are back! And this time they’re unspooling Charles Barton’s monster mash classic Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein!

Nothing is as it seems when bumbling baggage clerks Chick (Bud Abbott) and Wilbur (Lou Costello) find themselves caught in a comedy of terrors. Dracula’s coffin, the Wolf Man’s curse, Frankenstein’s monster — all land in their laps, and the results are shrieks of laughter mixed with genuine chills. Can these two scaredy-cats survive a night in the castle?

A horror-comedy landmark and one of Universal’s greatest monster rallies, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein brings together Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., and Glenn Strange for a frightful fiesta of classic ghouls.

The True Story Of Tamara de Lempicka and the Art of Survival is coming off of its festival run straight to The Frida Cinema! 

A visually stunning and sweeping feature documentary that traces the life and survival of the renowned painter through her powerful paintings – from her rise to international stardom in 1920s Paris, to her move to the United States in 1940, fleeing the rise of fascism, and her revival in the current art market.

Tamara de Lempicka was the preeminent Art Deco painter, known for her high-gloss sensual nudes and portraits of high society during the Jazz Age. She was marginalized and gained notoriety for her romantic liaisons with her models and her indulgent, decadent lifestyle, but she was so much more.

The Frida Cinema is excited to partner with the Production Designers Collective a very special screening of Spike Jonze’s 2002 masterwork Adaptation! And make sure to stick around after the screening for a very special Q&A with the film’s Production Designer–K.K. Barrett (Her, Marie Antoinette).

Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt “The Orchid Thief,” by Susan Orlean, Kaufman’s life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean’s book, become strangely intertwined as each one’s search for passion collides with the others’.

A modern classic of postmodern cinema, Adaptation fuses Jonze’s inventive direction with Kaufman’s whip-smart script and self-referential chaos.

This event will be an official part of International Production Design Week.

Possession is back for some Halloween Hangover encores with a 4K restoration thanks to our friends at Kino Lorber!

Professional spy Mark (Sam Neill) returns to his West Berlin home to find his wife Anna (Isabelle Adjani, in a role that earned her a Best Actress win at Cannes Film Festival) insistent on a divorce. As Anna’s frenzied behavior becomes ever more alarming, Mark discovers a truth far more sinister than his wildest suspicions. With its pulsating score, visceral imagery, and some of the most haunting performances ever captured on screen, Possession is cinematic delirium at its most intoxicating.

Banned upon its original release in 1981, Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession is a stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling and one of the great WTF movies of all time. Don’t miss it on the big screen!

From the twisted mind of writer/director Ari Aster springs Eddington, his surrealist (or is it?) nightmare time capsule comedy. And thanks to our friends over at Production Designers Collective, stick around after the screening for a very special Q&A with the film’s Production Designer–Elliott Hostetter (The Neon Demon, Bones & All).

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico. Hindsight is 2020.

Starring an all-star cast of Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, and Austin Butler, the film debuted at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and was released just this past Summer.

This event will be an official part of International Production Design Week.