What’s this? What’s this? The Nightmare Before Christmas, a true modern animated movie classic returns to the big screen at The Frida Cinema as part of our Volunteer Of The Month series! Everybody say thank you to Keenan!

Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack’s rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.

Tim Burton and Henry Selick’s blend of stop-motion world-building and unforgettable music is holiday film unlike any other. Bring your family and friends and step into a world where Halloween meets Christmas in the most delicious way.

Billy Wilder’s timeless romantic dramedy The Apartment returns to the big screen with a new 4K restoration as we celebrate what would have been Jack Lemmon’s 100th birthday.

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he’s left with a major problem to solve.

Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, The Apartment remains one of the great Hollywood stories about the courage to choose kindness in an unkind world. It’s the perfect aperetif to our Holiday Season programming.

Our dearly beloved Director Of Operations, Martin, is leaving us at the conclusion of this year, so we wanted to give him a proper send-off by letting him program four of his favorite films. First up in his series, entitled The Last Dance, is trailblazing auteur Márta Mészáros’ slice-of-life drama Adoption from 1975.

Through intensely intimate camerawork, Mészáros immerses the viewer in the worlds two women, each searching for fulfillment: Kata (Katalin Berek), a middle-aged factory worker who wishes to have a child with her married lover, and Anna (Gyöngyvér Vigh), a teenage ward of the state determined to emancipate herself in order to marry her boyfriend. The bond that forms between the two speaks quietly but powerfully to the social and political forces that shape women’s lives as each navigates the realities of love, marriage, and motherhood in her quest for self-determination.

Celebrate 20 years of Joe Wright’s iconic romantic classic Pride & Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfayden, Rosamund Pike, and Carey Mulligan!

A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family’s future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

A sweeping, sun-dappled reinvention of Jane Austen’s beloved novel that redefined period romance for a new generation, Pride & Prejudice is more popular and beloved than ever!

Join us as we ring in the holiday season by playing Nancy Meyers’ The Holiday for the first time ever! 

Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz star as two women on opposite sides of the globe who impulsively swap homes for Christmas—one trading a cozy English cottage for sunny Los Angeles, the other escaping Hollywood hustle for snow-dusted Surrey. What begins as an experiment in escape soon turns into a chance for renewal, connection, and the kind of unexpected romance that only seems possible in December.

With Meyers’ signature warmth and gorgeous interiors (duh) and a dream ensemble (we didn’t even mention Jack Black, Jude Law, and the legendary Eli Wallach), The Holiday delivers everything you want from a seasonal favorite!