Starship Frida returns May the 4th! Embark on a 12-hour overnight odyssey through some of sci-fi cinema’s most fantastic, thrilling, terrifying, and mind-bending worlds!  As always, your destinations are completely hush-hush until you’re strapped in and ready to blast off!  Prepare for more surprises, giveaways, and interplanetary fun than you can chuck a Tribble at! Read more about STARSHIP FRIDA returns May 4th, 2019! 12-Hour overnight Sci-Fi odyssey kicks off at 8pm![…]

Throw on your pajamas and bust our your favorite cereal spoons — The Frida Cinema Cartoon Block Party returns March 24th! This special event invites our young-at-heart friends to relive the exciting morning ritual of binging on TV cartoons – only on the big screen, at night, and surrounded by fellow animation junkies! Binge on theRead more about CARTOON BLOCK PARTY returns this Sunday, March 24![…]

Trust us – we’ve been feverishly looking forward to Enter the Void and Irreversible director Gasper Noé’s latest head-trip Climax as much as you have!  We all just need to wait just a little bit longer than planned – whereas we were originally slated to open Climax on March 8th, due to circumstances completely beyond ourRead more about GASPAR NOÉ’S CLIMAX MOVED TO MARCH 15TH – 21ST![…]

We’re turning five!   Since opening our doors on February 21, 2014, The Frida Cinema has served as Orange County’s sole community-based, mission-driven not-for-profit Art House cinema, dedicated to the mission of “Enriching, connecting, and educating communities through the art of cinema.”  To celebrate our 5th Anniversary, we will be programming  an exciting lineup ofRead more about WE’RE TURNING FIVE!! Here’s how we’re celebrating![…]

Experience Glenn Close’s gripping Oscar-nominated performance in director Björn Runge’s The Wife,  screening at The Frida one day and one time only – Sunday January 27th at 12pm – in participation with Sony Pictures Classics! After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan (Glenn Close, in her Golden Globe-winning performance) and Joe (Jonathan Pryce) Castleman are complements. WhereRead more about Special Screening of Glenn Close’s THE WIFE – this Sunday at noon![…]

This January, we are celebrating our two-week run of director Alfonso Cuarón’s critically-acclaimed drama Roma with a retrospective of four of his classic films: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men, Y Tu Mamá También, and Gravity!  Click on film image for information and advance tickets! Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Saturday, JanuaryRead more about Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA comes to The Frida – along with four of his classics![…]

We know – we’re sort of in disbelief, too…  Twenty years since Kubrick’s final opus?  Twenty years since Milton fought for his red stapler and slice of cake?  Twenty years since “”By Grabthar’s Hammer, by the Sons of Warvan, you shall be avenged…” ? 1999 is widely considered one of the most integral single yearsRead more about Has it really been 20 years?! Celebrate 10 iconic films from 1999 throughout January at the Frida![…]

On Wednesday, December 19th, we invite our card-carrying Frida Cinema Film Club Members to join us for our last Member Screening of the year, as we present Quentin Tarantino’s landmark, Oscar-winning 1994 independent classic, Pulp Fiction! Coming hot on the heels of Tarantino’s revolutionary Reservoir Dogs, which established the young filmmaker as a promising newRead more about Film Club Members! Join us for PULP FICTION – Wednesday December 19th at 7PM![…]