MLB playoffs are heating up…Christian’s Staff Pick for the month is in…man, how could you not be romantic about baseball?

That’s right, we’re screening Moneyball for our October Staff Pick! 

Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) is the general manager of the Oakland A’s, and he has a problem: after losing his best players to wealthier teams, he’s got almost no money to rebuild. His answer is unconventional–partner with young statistician Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) and use data to find undervalued players that everyone else has overlooked.

Based on Michael Lewis’s bestselling book, Bennett Miller’s Moneyball turns the seemingly dry world of baseball statistics into a gripping underdog story about challenging conventional wisdom. With a sharp screenplay from Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, a terrific ensemble featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Chris Pratt, and Brad Pitt giving one of his most effortlessly charismatic performances, the film became a modern sports classic.

Get ready to shake what you’ve got as present a limited run of Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

Haru (Rinko Kikuchi) and Luis (Alejandro Edda) are passionate competitors on Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but when tragedy strikes, Haru retreats from the dance floor and into herself. With some encouragement from her friends, she returns to the studio and finds herself drawn to a new instructor (Alberto Guerra), forcing her to confront the possibility of moving forward.

Directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka (Tokyo Vice) and winner of the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award at Sundance, Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! is a wildly stylish drama with just a little bit of magical realism. At the center of it all is Rinko Kikuchi, giving Haru a performance that can move from heartbreak to hilarity in the blink of an eye.

Please note: the 10:00PM screening on Friday, October 16th will have an intro by our friends at Cinematic Void and The American Cinematheque!

Andrzej Żuławski’s unforgettable cult classic Possession is the next film in our Art House of Horrors: Presented by MUBI series!

When Mark (Sam Neill) returns home to West Berlin, he discovers that his wife Anna (Isabelle Adjani) wants a divorce, and that something far stranger than another man may be tearing their marriage apart. As their relationship spirals into obsession, jealousy, and violence, Mark begins to suspect that Anna is hiding a horrifying secret.

It’s unclassifiable, and yet…it’s a total masterpiece that finds its way back to our screens at least once a year. It’s is a fever dream of marital breakdown, anchored by two astonishing performances. Isabelle Adjani (winner of Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival that year) throws herself into one of cinema’s most legendary displays of emotional and physical extremity, while the late, great Sam Neill gives a raw performance that helped introduce audiences to a face they would come to know and love for the next forty years.

Gypsy 83: Director’s Cut is coming to The Frida Cinema with a brand new 4K restoration!

Sandusky, Ohio is hell on earth for goth misfits and Stevie Nicks superfans Gypsy Vale (Sara Rue) and her younger, queer protégée Clive Webb (Birkett Turton). When they discover a New York City club is hosting a “Night of 1000 Stevies”, the pair hit the road with high hopes that Gypsy will be able to perform. Along the way, they encounter other misfits who pave the way to their salvation, all while discovering profound truths about themselves.

For its 25th Anniversary, Gypsy 83 has been completely reimagined as a brand-new Director’s Cut, restored in 4K from the 35mm camera negative. Now featuring over 40 minutes of never-before-seen footage and containing more legendary goth songs from bands like The Cure, Cocteau Twins and Echo and the Bunnymen, the Director’s Cut is sure to satiate longtime fans and create a generation of new ones.

Just added: Madrid Skateboards will be bringing only (25) exclusive 3D boards to sell exclusively at this screening! And as an added bonus, the first (50) people through the door will get a raffle ticket for giveaways as well as a limited keychain!

Cinematic Void and Madrid Skateboards are back at The Frida to bring ya’ll a very special October screening of the original The Evil Dead!

This 1981 horror classic follows five friends who head to an isolated cabin for a quiet getaway, only to discover an ancient book and a tape recording that unleash a demonic force upon them. Soon, the woods are alive, the dead are rising, and poor Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) is fighting for his life against an evil that refuses to stay buried.

Made on a shoestring budget with an astonishing amount of ingenuity, The Evil Dead announced Raimi as a filmmaker to watch, turning wild camera movements, handmade effects, stop-motion animation, and copious amounts of gore into one of the most influential independent horror films ever made. It’s always a must-watch on the big screen with fellow horror fans!

So grab your boomstick, keep one hand on the chainsaw, and join us at The Frida for Sam Raimi’s blood-soaked horror masterpiece!

Jonathan Demme’s 1984 concert film masterpiece Stop Making Sense is coming back to The Frida in October to celebrate 3 years since we started throwing our dance parties! Doors open at 7:30PM and the party starts at 8:30PM!

Stop Making Sense is an iconic concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, while on tour for their 1983 album “Speaking in Tongues.” The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by a cadre of guest musicians for a career-spanning, cinematic performance that features creative choreography and visuals. Featuring masterful performances by David Byrne and photography by Jordan Cronenweth (Blade Runner), Stop Making Sense is a concert experience at its most colorful and life-affirming.

Stop Making Sense will continue with regularity at The Frida Cinema as long as we keep selling it out! Don’t miss this once in a lifetime cinematic experience!

You can’t keep a bad girl down!

Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II is the next film up in our Art House of Horrors: Presented by Mubi series!

A rip-roaring sequel-in-name-only to the Jamie Lee Curtis slasher from 1980, this film delivers the goods in both the kills and teenage angst departments. Here, a ‘50s prom queen is sautéed alive in a school fire, and her horny, vengeful ghost pops up in the ‘80s to slice-’n-dice the Breakfast Club.

Featuring the iconic Michael Ironside as a high school principal and death via Apple II computers, this underrated slasher is a perfectly paced melding of Carrie, A Nigthmare on Elm Street, and Sam Raimi!