The walls are closing in with Ghost in the Cell, the wild new Indonesian horror film from acclaimed filmmaker Joko Anwar (Satan’s Slaves, Impetigore)!

Inside a brutal high-security prison ruled by rival gangs and corrupt guards, a series of gruesome murders begins leaving inmates dead in increasingly horrific…and impossible…ways. When it becomes clear that an invisible supernatural force is stalking the prison, enemies are forced to put aside their differences and work together to figure out what is killing them before they’re next.

Mixing supernatural horror with prison drama and adding in absolutely outrageous gore, Ghost in the Cell is the latest genre free-for-all from one of Indonesia’s most exciting filmmakers. 

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.

Filipiñana is coming to The Frida Cinema!

Amid stifling heat and pervasive drought, Isabel (Jorrybell Agoto), a 17-year-old Ilokana from the rural north, works at a posh country club outside Manila, lining up golf balls for powerful men to drive into the verdant horizon. New to the job, she wanders the immaculate grounds sampling its luxuries as members, including an industrialist and his expatriate niece, the club president and his pampered wife, and a slew of Chinese tourists, engage in a complex dance with the club’s doting and subservient staff.

“A masterwork. Rafael Manuel opens new vistas in the future of the cinema.” –Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“Impossibly gorgeous shot after impossibly gorgeous shot. It’s not an exaggeration to say that quite literally every frame is a work of art.” -Taylor Gates, Collider

Funeral Parade Of Roses is the next film in our Art House 101: Global Queer Cinema series!

In the neon-lit underworld of 1960s Tokyo, Funeral Parade of Roses follows Eddie (played by gender-nonconforming pop icon Pîtâ), a young transgender nightclub performer navigating love, identity, and rivalry in the city’s queer nightlife scene. As Eddie rises in popularity at a gay bar called Genet, she becomes entangled in a love triangle with Gonda, the bar’s manager, and Leda, her older rival and Gonda’s lover.

An electrifying and groundbreaking brew of French New Wave, underground documentary, and psychedelic experimentalism, Funeral Parade Of Roses has always been a favorite for audiences at The Frida Cinema! 

It’ll come as no surprise to any Jonathan Demme fan to find one of his films in our Unsung 80’s Soundtracks series. From the filmmaker who gave us Q Lazzarus’ “Goodbye Horses,” Bruce Springsteen’s Oscar-winning “Streets of Philadelphia,” and, of course, the electrifying sounds of Talking Heads in Stop Making Sense, comes 1986’s Something Wild, a quirky romantic comedy that gradually turns into…well, something quite wild.

Jeff Daniels stars as Manhattan businessman Charles Driggs, a relatively square individual whose uneventful life is upended when he meets the mysterious and free-spirited Lulu (Melanie Griffith). After she impulsively “kidnaps” him from a restaurant, the two head out on a road trip that becomes increasingly unpredictable adventure when they cross paths with Lulu’s dangerous ex-husband, Ray Sinclair (Ray Liotta). Funny, sexy, strange, and surprisingly unsettling, Something Wild is one of the great genre-shifting movies of the 1980s, and an early showcase for the late, great Liotta.

Demme fills his film with a remarkably eclectic mix of ’80s new wave, punk, rock, and pop, featuring Talking Heads, New Order, The Feelies, The Pretenders, and others. The music doesn’t simply serve as background decoration; it helps chart the film’s transformation from playful road movie to something darker. The soundtrack was released as a compilation alongside the film, and like so much of Demme’s work, it reflects a director with an unusually sharp ear for music, and a knack for finding exactly the right song for the moment.

Join us in person for the Scars UnseenScreening at the iconic Frida Cinema on October 19th at 7:00PM! Get your tickets here or by clicking the ticket icon above!

Scars Unseen is a ‘triumph of the human spirit’ documentary following three women who have overcome domestic violence and are paying it forward. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the statistic of 1 in 4 women affected by domestic violence went up to 1 in 3 women. This inspiring documentary highlights each individual’s experience involving domestic violence, focusing not on the grim details of their trauma but rather on the tools and techniques that helped them to persevere on their healing journey.

Scars Unseen aims to illuminate the power of healing, de-stigmatize victimhood, and encourage open communication about the causes, treatment, and prevention of abuse. This documentary focuses on the resiliency of three phenomenal women and encourages us all to be more trauma-informed. Scars Unseen is changing the conversation around domestic violence.