Silence affects everyone in the end.

The Piano is back on the big on the big screen in a stunning 4K restoration supervised and approved by writer-director Jane Campion and cinematographer Stuart Dryburgh.

Set in the rugged wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, the film follows Ada McGrath, a mute Scottish pianist who is sent halfway across the world for an arranged marriage. Accompanied only by her young daughter and her beloved piano, Ada finds herself caught between duty, desire, and self-discovery in a story as emotionally overwhelming as the landscape that surrounds her.

Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes and three Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Holly Hunter and Best Supporting Actress for Anna Paquin, The Piano is one of cinema’s most haunting and unforgettable romances ever made.

The brand new 4K restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights is coming to The Frida Cinema starting on August 14th! 

Marcello Mastroianni, as a lonely city transplant, and Maria Schell, as a sheltered girl haunted by a lover’s promise, meet by chance on a canal bridge and begin a tentative romance that quickly entangles them in a web of longing and self-delusion.

White Nights is an exquisite adaptation of Dostoevsky’s legendary novella, transforming this romantic, shattering tale of two restless souls into a ravishing black-and-white dream.

Few classics of Indian cinema are as exhilarating as Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay. Join The Frida Cinema as we celebrate Indian Independence Day with a special presentation of the film on the 51st anniversary of its original release on August 15, 1975, presented in a stunning new 4K restoration.

One of the foremost examples of the dacoit Western, the film follows two ne’er-do-wells, Veeru (Dharmendra) and Jai (Amitabh Bachchan), recruited by an old frenemy Thakur (Sanjeev Kumar) to rid his village of the villain Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan). This genuine marvel riffs off Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns, Akira Kurosawa’s samurai films and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and even influenced various Hong Kong action titles of the 1980s, many of which we’ve been playing all year long at The Frida.

Restored by Film Heritage Foundation at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in association with Sippy Films. Funding provided by Sippy Films. This restoration of the film in 4K includes the original ending as well as two deleted scenes and with the original 70mm aspect ratio of 2.2:1.

This film will be presented in its original Hindi language with English subtitles.

He is afraid. He is totally alone. He is 3,000,000 light years from home.

Our Spielberg Summer series phones home with E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, one of the most beloved family films ever made and a landmark of modern American cinema.

When a lonely young boy named Elliott discovers a stranded alien hiding near his home, the two form an unlikely friendship that changes both of their lives. As E.T. becomes part of Elliott’s family, the children must help their otherworldly companion evade government authorities and find a way back home before it’s too late.

Few films capture the wonder of childhood as beautifully as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Spielberg transforms a simple story of friendship into something genuinely magical. Decades after audiences first watched that bicycle lift off against the moonlit sky, the film, like so many others from Spielberg, continues to inspire awe from audiences across the globe.

Yeon Sang-ho’s global phenomenon Train to Busan is coming back to The Frida Cinema to celebrate its 10th Anniversary!

What begins as a simple birthday trip for a father and daughter turns into a high-octane fight for survival when a zombie outbreak ravages South Korea. Trapped on a speeding train, they must navigate a landscape of terror to reach safety. Experience the relentless action and heart-wrenching drama on the big screen like never before.

A pure action spectacle that secretly doubles as an emotional family drama, Train to Busan succeeds because it never loses sight of the people at its center. Its breakneck pacing and inventive set pieces make it one of the great zombie films of the 21st century and one hell of a time on the big screen! 

See It On 16mm and The Frida Cinema are teaming up to celebrate 30 years of Wes Craven’s iconic 1996 slasher Scream!

Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) is a high school student in the town of Woodsboro who becomes the target of a masked killer known as Ghostface. As the killer terrorizes the town, picking off Sidney’s friends one by one, the survivors must navigate the killer’s twisted game of horror movie tropes. With the help of horror movie-obsessed Randy (Jamie Kennedy), Sidney and her group try to figure out the identity of Ghostface while staying alive.

As quotable as it scary, Scream revitalized and changed the slasher film genre forever by lovingly tearing it to pieces. Thirty years later, Ghostface is still terrorizing audiences, and seeing it on glorious 16mm is about as close as you can get to stepping back into a 1996 movie theater on opening weekend!

Sex. Violence. Whatever.

The explosive second chapter of Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, The Doom Generation is back on our big screens with a new 4K restoration! 

After an impulsive encounter with the mysterious drifter Xavier, teenage couple Amy Blue and Jordan White are pulled into a violent cross-country odyssey filled with escalating chaos. As the trio drifts from one surreal nightmare to the next, Araki transforms the American road movie into a candy-colored vision of a society on the verge of collapse.

A nihilistic fever dream that only he could dream up, The Doom Generation cemented Araki’s reputation as one of independent cinema’s true provocateurs. Wildly funny and shockingly violent, it remains one of the defining films of 1990s counterculture.