I Saw The TV Glow is back at The Frida to celebrate the upcoming release of Jane Schoenbrun’s new film, Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma, opening at The Frida on 8/21! 

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate Maddy introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show, a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.

Only a couple years after after its initial release on our screens, I Saw The TV Glow has been one of our most requested bring-back titles. Bathed in neon light and aching nostalgia, Schoenbrun transforms the language of cult television and suburban adolescence into something deeply personal, crafting a film that is both an eerie fantasy and an emotionally devastating portrait of self-discovery. Few films have ever resonated so deeply with our audience. 

July’s Hallucinations pick is the delightfully strange Musical Fantasy Tomorrow, featuring an early leading performance from the incomparable Olivia Newton-John!

In a whimsical future where science, music, and imagination collide, a brilliant young inventor and his eccentric companions set out on an adventure that spans planets, generations, and dimensions. 

Released years before Grease would make her an international icon, Tomorrow offers a fascinating glimpse of Olivia Newton-John at the dawn of her screen career. Overflowing with colorful visuals and catch tunes, Tomorrow is a charming reminder that we used to make movies like this!

Hosted by Polygon’s editor-in-chief Chris Plante, Hallucinations is a monthly event that spotlights movies that challenge our expectations of story, style, and “good taste”. We invite guests to bond over films that change what we expect from the medium, the world, and themselves. So come early, stay late, make friends, and watch something strange, surprising, or just shamelessly sick.

In remembrance of filmmaker and artist Marjane Satrapi, we’re bringing you a one-week run of her 2007 animated masterpiece Persepolis.

Growing up in revolutionary Iran, young Marjane is outspoken, curious, and determined to chart her own path in a world growing increasingly restrictive. Sent abroad by her family for safety, she navigates adolescence, exile, love, and loss while struggling to reconcile the person she has become with the homeland she left behind. Through it all, Marjane searches for a place to belong.

Rendered in striking black-and-white animation, Persepolis captures both the upheaval of political change and the intimate joys and heartbreaks of growing up. It stands as a testament to Satrapi’s singular voice: a filmmaker who turned memory into art and invited audiences around the world to see history through the eyes of one unforgettable life.

Revenge gets ripped.

We’ve some encores of Rose Glass’ 2024 “be gay, do crime” thriller Love Lies Bleeding!

Love Lies Bleeding follows a gym manager, Lou, that falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.

Celebrated for its intense tone, blending elements of a gritty crime thriller, dark comedy, and surreal body horror, Love Lies Bleeding is an experience tailor-made for the big screen!

One band. Forty years of beautiful chaos. 

Catch a final encore of the brand new documentary about the legacy of NOFX with 40 Years of Fuckin’ Up, up on the big screen, loud and proud!

Spanning four decades of provocation, this no-holds-barred documentary dives headfirst into the band’s history: the music, the mayhem, the fights, the fallout, and everything in between. Built around their final run, it’s as much a goodbye as it is a brutally honest look at what it takes to last this long without selling out or slowing down.

Both emotionally raw and gut-bustingly funny, 40 Years of Fuckin’ Up is staying true to tis form and never coming to streaming. This is your chance to experience it the way it was meant to be seen: in a room full of fans, turned all the way up!

Tickets are $20 to this event. Frida Cinema comp passes and member discounts do not apply.