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From acclaimed filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski (Ida, Cold War) comes Fatherland, a striking new black-and-white portrait of postwar Germany, starring Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler. In the summer of 1949, Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann returns to Germany after years of exile, embarking on a road trip with his daughter Erika across a country split between East and West. As they travel from American-occupied Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar, old wounds resurface and difficult questions emerge about national identity, artistic responsibility, and what it means to return home when the place you remember no longer exists. With Pawlikowski’s signature visual precision and Hüller’s quietly commanding performance, Fatherland transforms a journey across a fractured nation into an intimate reckoning of guilt and the complicated bonds between parents and children. A true standout at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Pawlikowski once again finds extraordinary emotional weight in what remains unsaid. Enhanced Accessibility Options: this film has Closed Captioning and Assisted Listening capability!

Just added: Helena Odeh, daughter of Alex Odeh, will be joining us before the 8:30PM screening on 11/5 to introduce the film and after the 12:30PM screening on 11/7 for a Q&A with CAIR (Council for Arab & Islamic Relations) Who Killed Alex Odeh?, the powerful new documentary from directors Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans, is coming to The Frida Cinema for a limited run on November 5th-10th. In October 1985, Santa Ana, California was shaken by a brazen act of political violence when Palestinian American Alex Odeh, a beloved teacher and community leader, was killed by a tripwire bomb planted in his office. Despite substantial evidence and identified suspects, the case was never solved. Who Killed Alex Odeh? reopens the mystery, tracking a renewed investigation in real time as new leads emerge, long-buried records come to light, and the forces behind a political assassination are finally confronted. Alex Odeh was a Palestinian-born American citizen, a father of three, a teacher, a poet, and an advocate for Arab American civil rights and peaceful coexistence. According to Carnegie Mellon University and Grand Central Art Center, the statue of Alex that sits outside of the Santa Ana Public Library (just a ten minute walk from The Frida Cinema) is the only public monument to an Arab American in the United States. Enhanced Accessibility Options: this film has Closed Captioning capability!

Just added: film critic and author Alonso Duralde will be joining us for the 8:00PM screening on November 9th to introduce the film and sign copies of his book Hollywood Pride! Few filmmakers have embraced queer desire with as much style, humor, and glorious melodrama as Pedro Almodóvar. So of course we had to include his work in our Art House 101: Global Queer Cinema series! We've played the hits before, so now we're diving headfirst into one of his earliest and most deliriously queer films: Law of Desire. Pablo Quintero is a successful filmmaker whose latest movie has just premiered to acclaim, but his personal life is considerably less orderly. His former lover has disappeared from his life, his trans sister Tina is dealing with her own complicated romantic history, and a handsome young admirer named Antonio has become dangerously obsessed with him. When Pablo rejects Antonio’s advances, desire quickly curdles into jealousy...and so much more. Made just a few years after Spain emerged from Franco’s dictatorship, Law of Desire finds Almodóvar throwing open the doors to a world of queer sexuality, gender fluidity, artistic ambition, and unapologetic excess. Anchored by unforgettable performances from Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, and Antonio Banderas, the film is a feverishly funny and dare we say...very sexy. Don't miss your chance to see it on the big screen!

Just added: our friends at Hong Kong Cinema Club will be intro'ing the 7:30PM screening on Sunday, November 8th!  The penultimate film in our Hong Kong Action Essentials series is Bullet In The Head, which also happens to be our final John Woo film in the series, as well. There's no better way to end his chapter in this lineup than with his most brutal and personal film to date. Three friends fleeing Hong Kong after a violent crime find themselves trapped in the chaos of the Vietnam War, where their loyalty and morality are tested beyond repair. What begins as a desperate bid for escape descends into a harrowing portrait of friendship under unimaginable pressure. As war strips away ideals and innocence, the bonds between the men fracture, leading to betrayals that cut deeper than any bullet. Fueled by rage and grief Bullet in the Head trades balletic elegance for raw emotional devastation. This is heroic bloodshed turned inward, and a legendary filmmaker pushing himself into completely new territory.

Our Spielberg Summer series ventures off-path and into the Fall as we visit the future in A.I. Artificial Intelligence, a haunting Science Fiction fairy tale that stands among the director’s most ambitious and deeply misunderstood works. In a world where advanced robots live alongside humans, a young android named David (Haley Joel Osment) is programmed with the ability to love. When he is abandoned by the family he was created to join, David embarks on an extraordinary journey to become “real,” believing it is the only way to win back the affection he longs for. Originally developed by Stanley Kubrick and ultimately realized by Spielberg, A.I. is an unsettling vision of technological loneliness. Over two decades later, its questions about what it means to love feel more relevant than ever, revealing a far more profound than many audiences recognized upon its release. Enhanced Accessibility Options: this film has Closed Captioning capability!

John Ford’s towering Western classic returns to the big screen as The Frida Cinema celebrates the 70th anniversary of The Searchers! When his niece is kidnapped by Comanches, Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) embarks on a years-long search across the unforgiving Texas frontier, joined by his adopted nephew Martin (Jeffrey Hunter). What follows is an epic journey fueled by obsession, prejudice, and a determination that threatens to consume everyone involved. With its breathtaking Monument Valley vistas and Wayne’s career-defining performance, The Searchers remains one of the most influential films in American cinema. See this landmark Western the way it was meant to be seen: on the big screen!

Two films. One nightmare. We're bring the theatrical cut of Alien and the Director's Cut of Aliens to The Frida Cinema for a double feature celebrating two of the greatest sci-fi films ever made! First, Ridley Scott’s Alien sends warrant officer Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and the crew of the Nostromo into a fight for survival against the perfect killing machine. Then, after a ten minute intermission, James Cameron’s Aliens brings Ripley back for a return trip to LV-426, where an entire colony has gone silent...and there’s a whole lot more than one Xenomorph waiting for them. This very special pairing comes at the tail-end of celebrating the 40th anniversary of Aliens and also doubling as a tribute to the late, great Tom Skerritt!

Our Classic Movie Nights series is getting real screwy as we present the Katharine Hepburn/Cary Grant comedy classic Bringing Up Baby! David Huxley, a mild-mannered paleontologist on the eve of marrying his longtime fiancée, has his carefully ordered life thrown into complete disarray when he crosses paths with the wildly unpredictable Susan Vance. After Susan mistakes him for a zoologist, the pair become entangled in a series of increasingly ridiculous mishaps involving a tame leopard named Baby. Starring Grant and Hepburn at their most effortlessly hilarious, Bringing Up Baby is one of the defining films of Hollywood's screwball comedy era. Howard Hawks' knack for balancing plates during the escalating absurdity (and of course the chemistry of the two legendary leads) make it a timeless comedy that must be seen on the big screen! Please make sure to get to this showtime early, as our beloved Marketing Director, Bekah, will be doing a pre-screening presentation on the film! 

After 55 years...The Devils are finally unleashed! Censored. Controversial. Practically impossible to see in its intended form. Now, Ken Russell’s The Devils is back. And this time, it’s in a brand new 4K restoration from the original camera negative, referencing the edit he privately constructed in 2004. Based on the infamous true story of 17th-century French priest Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed), The Devils follows a charismatic priest whose defiance of church and state makes him the target of a political conspiracy. When a sexually repressed nun (Vanessa Redgrave) accuses Grandier of witchcraft, an entire convent becomes consumed by an eruption of violence that threatens to tear the town apart. This 1971 masterpiece is one of the most audacious films ever made and became one of the most notoriously censored films in British cinema. Don't miss this extremely rare treat on the big screen! Enhanced Accessibility Options: this film has Closed Captioning, Assisted Listening, and Audio Description capability!

New York has changed. The art of stealing hasn’t. A love letter to the Big Apple’s grittier corners, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York is a new crime drama from writer-director Noah Segan, starring John Turturro alongside Giancarlo Esposito, Steve Buscemi, Tatiana Maslany, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Harry Lehman is an aging pickpocket who plies his trade with ever-diminishing returns in a drastically changed New York. Wallets stuffed with cash have been replaced by easily cancelled credit cards, and Harry struggles to make ends meet as he cares for his disabled wife, Rosie. When he unwittingly purloins and fences a valuable USB stick, Harry finds himself in a race against time to return the loot or face the rage of a vengeful crime family. With early acclaim for Turturro’s soulful performance and its portrait of a vanishing New York, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York brings old-school crime-movie cool to a city that never stops changing. Catch this acclaimed indie thriller on the big screen at The Frida Cinema! Enhanced Accessibility Options: this film has Closed Captioning, Assisted Listening, and Audio Description capability!

From filmmaker Lance Hammer (Ballast) comes Queen at Sea, a devastating new drama starring Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche alongside screen legends Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall. Amanda and her stepfather Martin struggle with a moral issue that divides them. Has Amanda’s mother Leslie, who has dementia, lost the ability to make critical decisions in her own best interests? And, if so, who is responsible for making such a determination? As Amanda and Martin are forced to make increasingly difficult choices, the repercussions spiral out of their control. Winner of the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival, this unflinching family drama has earned widespread critical acclaim. Enhanced Accessibility Options: this film has Closed Captioning capability!

Don't miss out your chance to see La bola negra, the Oscars' next big foreign language phenomenon, on the big screen at The Frida Cinema this November! Spanning three different eras of Spanish history, La Bola Negra follows three men whose lives become mysteriously intertwined through secrets passed down through generations. From the shadow of the Spanish Civil War to a contemporary search for a forgotten family history, Los Javis (the name the two directors have lovingly been given over the years) weave together a sweeping queer epic about the people whose stories were erased. The film's Cannes premiere earned Los Javis the festival’s Best Director prize, it just won the prestigious Audience Award at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival (the first non-English language film to do so in fifteen years) and now...the Oscar buzz is very real. With Spain officially putting La Bola Negra forward for the 99th Academy Awards, the question is no longer whether this is one of the year’s major international films, it’s how far this extraordinary, wildly ambitious movie can go in the Best Picture race.  Enhanced Accessibility Options: this film has Closed Captioning and Assisted Listening capability!

Our long-running Friday the 13th on Friday the 13th series returns to where it all began with the 1980 original, this time projected on celluloid by our friends at See It On 16mm! The story takes place at Camp Crystal Lake, a seemingly idyllic summer camp with a dark past. As a group of young counselors prepares to reopen the camp, they find themselves stalked by a mysterious killer. One by one, they fall victim to grisly attacks, culminating in a shocking twist. With its clever kills and iconic score, the Friday the 13th franchise has become a staple over here at The Frida. We've played every entry in the series (except the remake) over the past ten years, and even ran a marathon of all ten movies last year. It seems like old traditions...won't die! Let's go back to where it all began!

Our award-winning resident performance troupe K.A.O.S. returns for their celebrated all-costumed, all-choreographed, all-leg-kicking live shadowcast presentation of 1975 cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, performed on stage in front of the film! Director Jim (Don’t squeeze the…) Sharman’s cult classic stars Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon as Brad and Janet, two virginal small-town lovers whose car breaks down in the shadows of a creepy old castle, where they encounter an odd collective of “unconventional conventionalists” gathered to witness transvestite scientist’s Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s latest creation – a muscular man named Rocky. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including tap-dancing Columbia, rocking biker Eddie, and of course, the castle’s “Sweet Transvestite” himself, Frank-N-Furter! Adapted from the 1973 stage musical by Richard O’Brien, this glam cult classic is a cinematic experience unlike any other. Sing-along (and shout-along!) to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a classic that still packs houses 50 years after its initial release! Get your tickets now before it sells out! Doors open at 11:00pm  Official K.A.O.S. preshow starts at 11:30pm!  Movie at midnight! SENSORY WARNING: Flashing Lights and Fog effects may be used during the event. This program is a venue rental engagement. The views and opinions expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of The Frida Cinema or its staff. Member discounts and Frida Cinema comp passes not valid. Enhanced Accessibility: this film has Closed Captioning and Audio Description capability!

Get ready to shrink down and relive the wild adventure of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids with Friends of the Mouse! Eccentric inventor Wayne Szalinski's (Rick Moranis) experimental shrinking ray accidentally miniaturizes his teenage kids and their next-door neighbors. The four tiny children are mistakenly thrown out with the trash and must navigate the perilous, jungle-like terrain of their own backyard. To make it back home safely, they have to dodge giant lawnmowers, treacherous sprinklers, and backyard insects, all while their frantic parents launch a desperate search to find them before it's too late! Along with prizes and a special cartoon, star Amy O'Neill (Amy Szalinski) will be joining us for a post-show Q&A as well as a meet & greet/autographs before the film. Tickets for this event are free but you must RSVP each attendee. Priority seating is available for Friends of the Mouse members. Memberships are available for $20/yr per family and can be purchased at this link.

What would you do if were framed for a murder…you had not committed yet? The penultimate film in our Spielberg Summer series is the Tom Cruise-starrer Minority Report, a dazzling Sci Fi Thriller that imagines a world where crime can be stopped before it happens. In Washington, D.C., of 2054, police captain John Anderton (Tom Cruise) leads a revolutionary unit that uses psychic visions to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes. But when Anderton himself is identified as a future killer, he goes on the run, determined to uncover the truth behind a system he once believed was infallible. Based on the novel by Philip K. Dick, the film combines breathtaking action, Noir intrigue (something you'd think would be in more Spielberg projects), and startlingly prescient ideas about surveillance and predictive technology, making it one of smartest blockbusters of the 21st century.

Don't mess with the hat. Or else. Our Halloween Hangover weekend at The Frida Cinema continues with one of the most terrifying motion pictures ever made: 2003's The Cat in the Hat!  When The Cat crashes into the lives of two bored kids, their rainy afternoon spirals into a surreal parade of nightmare fuel that somehow received a PG rating. Co-starring Dakota Fanning, Spencer Breslin, and Alec Baldwin, this famously bizarre adaptation has spent years haunting the childhoods of an entire generation. The sets are garish, the jokes are more than question, and The Cat himself looks like he knows where you sleep. This movie is not for children. (Okay, maybe it is. But still.) Come re-live your childhood trauma on the big screen at The Frida Cinema! Enhanced Accessibility Options: this film has Closed Captioning capability!

One of the greatest achievements in recent art house cinema and a seminal work of “slow cinema,” Sátántangó, based on the book by László Krasznahorkai is the third film in our Béla Tarr Retrospective. The film follows members of a small, defunct agricultural collective living in a post-apocalyptic landscape after the fall of Communism who, on the heels of a large financial windfall, set out to leave their village. As a few of the villagers secretly conspire to take off with all of the earnings for themselves, a mysterious character, long thought dead, returns to the village, altering the course of everyone’s lives forever. Shot in stunning black-and-white by Gábor Medvigy and filled with exquisitely composed and lyrical long takes, Sátántangó unfolds in twelve distinct movements, alternating forwards and backwards in time, echoing the structure of a tango dance. Tarr’s vision, aided by longtime partner and collaborator Ágnes Hranitzky, is enthralling and his portrayal of a rural Hungary beset by boozy dance parties, treachery, and near-perpetual rainfall is both transfixing and uncompromising.  Sátántangó has been justly lauded by critics and audiences as a masterpiece and inspired none other than Susan Sontag to proclaim that she would be “glad to see it every year for the rest of [her] life”. Sátántangó has been restored in 4K from the original 35mm camera negative by Arbelos in collaboration with The Hungarian Filmlab.

Trash-Mex continues their 4 Clásicos De Terror series with Chano Urueta’s El espejo de la bruja (1962)! When Elena (Dina de Marco) is murdered by her husband, Eduardo (Armando Calvo), the couple's housekeeper, Sara (Isabela Corona), plots to take revenge. Summoning Elena through the witch’s mirror, Sara exacts ghastly vengeance upon Eduardo and his new wife, Deborah (Rosita Arenas). A wicked slice of Mexican Gothic horror, El espejo de la bruja is a deliriously atmospheric descent into the macabre. Look into the mirror if you dare!

For the next film in our Art House 101: Global Queer Cinema series, we’re looking through the eyes of a filmmaker who brought her own cultural experience to a story about family, identity, and falling in love: Alice Wu’s Saving Face. Wil is a successful young surgeon living in New York’s tight-knit Chinese-American community, where her single life is already a source of concern for her traditional mother. But when her mother unexpectedly becomes pregnant and is sent to live with Wil, the pressure to maintain the family’s reputation only intensifies. Then Wil meets Vivian, a beautiful and openly queer ballet dancer, and finds herself falling in love, forcing her to choose between the expectations placed upon her and the life she actually wants. Drawing from her own experiences as a queer Chinese-American woman, Alice Wu’s Saving Face is a deeply personal romantic comedy about the complicated ways sexuality shape who we allow ourselves to become. With its charming performances and refusal to choose between cultural tradition and queer identity, Wu created a film that understands that sometimes the hardest person to come out to is yourself.

Celebrate 100 Years of Buster Keaton’s comedy masterpiece The General courtesy of our friends at flickrhappy! And as an added bonus, acclaimed musician and film composer Cliff Retallick will be doing live accompaniment along with the film! After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines. Widely regarded as one of the greatest comedies (and greatest films overall) ever made, this silent-era masterpiece is a dazzling showcase of Keaton’s breathtaking stunts and ingenious physical comedy. Ranked #18 on both the American Film Institute’s 100 Years…100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) and 100 Years…100 Laughs lists, it remains every bit as thrilling, hilarious, and astonishing as ever.

Our Nu-Classics series, hosted by the amazing Maggie Mae Fish, is going digital as we present a special screening of the 1999 science fiction action masterpiece The Matrix. And this month, Maggie is joined by super special guests Team 4 Star for a post-screening discussion!  Keanu Reeves stars as Neo, a computer hacker who discovers that the world he knows is an elaborate illusion...and that the truth is far stranger than he could have imagined. With Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, and Hugo Weaving delivering iconic performances, The Matrix is one of those very rare cases of a movie genuinely changing everything that came after it. Beneath the leather coats and slow-motion gunplay, there's a mind-bending cyberpunk classic that still has plenty to say even 25+ years later. 

Yes...or yes?  Our Heist Hallucinations series is going back to the criminal underworld with Jonathan Glazer's 2000 cult classic Sexy Beast! Retired safecracker Gal Dove (Ray Winstone) is enjoying a quiet life in Spain when a visit from his old associate Don Logan (Ben Kingsley) threatens to drag him back into the business. Logan has one last job in mind...a daring safe deposit heist in London. Oh, and he's not taking "no" for an answer. What follows is an unhinged descent into the criminal underworld unlike any other crime film you've ever seen.  Glazer’s electrifying debut balances a meticulously-planned heist with a psychological showdown between two unforgettable characters. And then there’s Ben Kingsley, giving one of the great left-field performances of his career as the absolutely terrifying Don Logan. Add in Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman, and a script that crackles with menace, and Sexy Beast is one hell of a way to get your heist on.

Our Staff Pick for the month of November comes courtesy of our Box Office Manager Sarah Mae, who has chosen Steven Soderbergh's 1989 breakout Sex, Lies, and Videotape! Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. When John’s best friend Graham arrives, his penchant for interviewing women about their sex lives forever changes John and Ann’s rocky marriage. This provocative indie classic helped change American independent cinema forever. Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, this intimate drama stars James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, and Laura San Giacomo in a tangled web of emotional dysfunction.

Our first Volunteer of the Month pick for November comes courtesy of Curtis, who has chosen To Kill a Mockingbird, the 1962 classic starring Gregory Peck!  Scout Finch, 6 years old, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.\ Based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, it’s a powerful story of standing up for what’s right...even when the odds are stacked against you.

From Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the co-directors behind the Oscar-winning No Other Land, comes Naza, an urgent new documentary investigating the systems behind Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2026 Venice Film Festival, the film offers a chilling look at modern warfare through the testimony of Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers who helped select targets and calculate anticipated civilian casualties. Filmed in secret conversations on Tel Aviv rooftops, these anonymous insiders describe a system where algorithms, surveillance technology, and bureaucratic calculations shape life-and-death decisions. The title refers to military terminology for “collateral damage”, a phrase that takes on devastating meaning when the human cost is laid bare. A vital, deeply unsettling work of investigative filmmaking, Naza demands to be seen and confronted. Join us at The Frida Cinema for a documentary that asks what happens when the machinery of war makes the unthinkable routine.

As we turn the corner towards the end of our Art House 101: Global Queer Cinema series, we’re celebrating one of the essential voices of contemporary queer cinema with a double feature from French filmmaker Céline Sciamma: Water Lilies + Tomboy. Sciamma’s debut feature, Water Lilies, plunges into the charged world of teenage desire, where a sexual awakening can feel impossibly intense. When Marie befriends Floriane, the star of a local synchronized swimming team, she becomes fascinated by her new friend, even as Floriane’s complicated relationship with her own sexuality begins to blur the boundaries between admiration and desire. Then, in Tomboy, Sciamma turns her gaze toward gender identity through the eyes of a ten-year-old child. After moving to a new neighborhood, Laure introduces herself to the other children as “Michaël,” beginning to navigate friendships, play, and first love while keeping her secret from her family. What begins as a simple childhood game gradually becomes a tender exploration of discovering who you might be. Long before Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Sciamma was already making some of the most quietly radical films about queer desire and identity. This double feature is an exemplary early showcase of her extraordinary talent. There will be a 10 minute intermission between the movies. One ticket gets you access to both films.

Experience it. Enjoy it. Just don't fall for it. Our second Volunteer of the Month pick comes courtesy of Steve, who has chosen Cameron Crowe's 2000 love letter to rock'n'roll Almost Famous! In 1973, a precocious 15-year-old aspiring rock journalist lands a dream assignment from Rolling Stone to tour with a rising rock band, embarking on a coming-of-age journey as he discovers the exhilarating and heartbreaking realities behind rock stardom. Featuring Frances McDormand, Billy Crudup, Jason Lee, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as legendary rock critic Lester Bangs, and Kate Hudson in the unforgettable role of Penny Lane, this semi-autobiographical coming-of-age classic won Crowe an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, and gave us one of cinema’s greatest looks into the adventure of being in the band.

Plunging into the 1970s Berlin underground, this unforgettable portrait stands as one of the most harrowing films ever made about drug addiction. Based on the true story of Christiane Felscherinow, whose shocking memoir made her the face of a generation of troubled German youth, this bracing dramatization follows the alienated thirteen-year-old Christiane (Natja Brunckhorst) as she goes from popping pills to shooting heroin amid West Berlin’s infamous club scene. An instant cult sensation on account of its authentically grimy location shooting and electrifying soundtrack by David Bowie, Christiane F. (original title: Christiane F.: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo) remains a haunting vision of a young life in free fall. As part of our Unsung 80's Soundtracks series, we will be presenting Janus Films' new 4K digital restoration, approved by director Uli Edel, featuring a new 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. The soundtrack album is essentially a David Bowie compilation created around the film, rather than a conventional original film score. Bowie also recorded the German-language version of “Heroes,” “Helden,” specifically for the German market/film connection. Bowie also appears as himself in concert footage, and his music is deeply woven into the film's atmosphere and Christiane's obsession with him. This film contains mature themes and intense subject matter that may be triggering for some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised.

Celebrate 20 years of The Host, Bong Joon Ho's wildly inventive creature feature that helped put South Korean cinema on the international map. When a monstrous creature emerges from Seoul’s Han River and snatches a young girl, her dysfunctional family takes matters into their own hands and discovers that the monster may be the least of their problems. Starring Song Kang-ho (Parasite), Bae Doona (The Doomsday Book), and a terrific ensemble, Director Bong’s knack for genre-mashing is on full display here: a delicious mix of creature feature chaos, pitch-black comedy, and razor-sharp satire aimed at environmental negligence and institutional incompetence. Don't miss one of the 21st century's best films on the big screen!

Think you’ve got what it takes to go toe-to-toe with the film nerds of Southern California? Then it’s time to put your cinema knowledge to the ultimate test at The Frida’s monthly Film Trivia Night! Each month, we challenge cinephiles with five meticulously crafted rounds of film trivia, plus a special bonus round for those who truly know their stuff. Expect everything from deep dives to cult classics, iconic soundtracks to infamous flops. 

The final film in our Béla Tarr Retrospective is The Turin Horse, his 2011 swan song. Inspired by the legendary 1889 incident where philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed a cab driver whipping a stubborn horse in Turin, Italy, and collapsed after embracing the animal. The film tracks the bleak, repetitive daily survival of the aging driver, his daughter, and their horse amid a relentless windstorm. Declared by Tarr as his final feature film, it is celebrated as a masterpiece of modern minimalist cinema and long-take cinematography. Don't miss this new restoration on the big screen! 

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Fall, Tarsem Singh’s breathtaking fantasy epic, returning to the big screen in a stunning 4K restoration! Presented by David Fincher and Spike Jonze, this cult favorite stars Lee Pace alongside Catinca Untaru in a one-of-a-kind cinematic adventure. In 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman named Roy befriends a young girl in the hospital and begins telling her an epic tale of bandits, warriors, and revenge. But as the girl’s imagination takes hold, the fantastical story begins to blur with the troubled reality of the man telling it. Filmed across 28 locations around the world, The Fall is a feast of extraordinary landscapes and pure cinematic imagination. Experience one of the most visually spectacular films ever made the way it was meant to be seen: on the big screen at The Frida Cinema!

Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern is coming to The Frida Cinema! A visually stunning masterpiece of power, jealousy, and survival, the films also stars the incomparable Gong Li in one of her most celebrated performances. In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian is forced to abandon her studies and marry a wealthy older man as his fourth wife. Inside his palatial estate, a nightly ritual determines which wife receives his attention, and the privileges that come with it. Soon, the household becomes a battleground of ruthless competition. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this landmark of Chinese cinema transforms a seemingly simple domestic drama into a devastating portrait of patriarchal power, full of Zhang Yimou's signature sumptuous colors. 

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Blue Velvet, one of The Frida Cinema's most beloved and enduring films. The film follows Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), a college student who returns to his small hometown of Lumberton after his father is injured. While walking, he discovers a severed human ear and becomes involved in investigating its origins. As Jeffrey dives deeper into the dark world of crime, he struggles with the blurred lines between innocence and corruption, while also developing a romantic relationship with Sandy (Laura Dern), a local cop’s daughter. Isabella Rossellini and Dennis Hopper also star in this unforgettable trip into the dark underbelly of suburban life, a trademark attributed directly to David Lynch to this very day. Blue Velvet is a touchstone for modern surrealist cinema and is widely discussed in film studies for its exploration into its psychological complexity, and the intersection of innocence and corruption. It garnered Lynch an Oscar nomination for both Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, but its grip on modern pop culture branches far beyond its accolades.

Play It Fear is back at The Frida to present a very special Secret Black Friday Flick!  Forget the holiday shopping madness. This Black Friday, we're celebrating the season the only way we know how: with a killer horror classic for the low, low price of $5! The title stays under wraps until showtime, but trust us: this is one Black Friday bargain you won't want to sleep on. And that's not all! We'll be hosting a physical media pop-up featuring a variety of vendors, so come early, dig through the stacks, and score some VHS, Blu-rays, DVDs, and other collectible treasures before the lights go down.

Bust out those plastic spoons! The Room is back at The Frida Cinema! Wiseau's peerless magnum opus finds the auteur who shaped a generation taking on the arts of acting, writing, casting, directing, editing and more. What's even more remarkable: he's mastered them all. The multi-talented director stars as Johnny, a big-time banker working in gorgeously shot San Francisco. His fiancée Lisa, seemingly a happy part of a successful relationship, has wandering eyes…for Tommy's best friend Mark. Cinema has never witnessed such betrayal! An intense, sensual thriller, at least as it was intended by Wiseau, The Room is an intricately knit web of sweet secrets and bitter lies that interrogates the very form of drama itself, as well as a truly unforgettable piece of cinema.

On Saturday, November 28th, 2026, an annual Frida Cinema tradition continues. It's The Lord Of The Rings Extended Edition Trilogy Marathon! Come watch these three masterpieces back-to-back-to-back on the big screen! The schedule will be as follows: 11:00AM - LOTR VIP guests are admitted early to get their seats and perks! 11:30AM - LOTR General Admission guests are admitted to get their seats! 12:00PM - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (208 minutes) 3:30PM - 15 minute break for Second Breakfast (30 min with credits) 3:45PM - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (225 minutes) 7:30PM - 45 minute break for Dinner (1 hour with credits) 8:15PM - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (252 minutes) 12:30AM - Our journey comes to an end! We are offering GA ($40) and VIP ($60) passes this year! Tickets are limited for the VIP tier, so move fast! And as always, our LOTR GA pass ($40) gets you in at 11:30AM and come-and-go access to three of the greatest films ever made! The LOTR VIP pass ($60) gets you 30 minutes of early access to get your favorite seat, free coffee all day in our lobby from our friends at Coffee Muse, and a special LOTR goodie bag from The Frida!  Throw on your comfiest clothes, grab a pillow and blanket, and take a 13-hour journey with us through Middle Earth! Member discounts and Frida Cinema comp passes not valid.

Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison star in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s enchanting supernatural romance, coming soon to The Frida Cinema! The film follows a young widow who moves into a seaside cottage and discovers she’s not the only one living there. The ghost of its former owner, a blustery sea captain named Daniel Gregg, is none too pleased with his new tenant, but their battle of wills soon blossoms into an extraordinary bond. With its gorgeous black-and-white cinematography, unforgettable score by Bernard Herrmann, and a young Natalie Wood in a supporting role, this beloved classic is a bittersweet romance about a connection that transcends the boundaries of life itself.

Cinematic Void and Madrid Skateboards are back at The Frida to present You Can Color Outside the Lines...The Big Boys, the true story of the beloved funk/punk band from Austin, Texas! Go beyond Austin's city limits and hear from some of music & skateboarding's greats about how the original "skate punk" band's message of DIY positivity still resonates today. Hear from such legends as Tim Kerr (Big Boys), Fred Armisen (SNL), Tony Alva (Dogtown & Z-Boys), Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam), Exene Cervenka (X) & many more as this VHS-inspired trip takes you back to those hot summers of Texas in the 80s. And then go make your own art!

Our Spielberg Summer series concludes with some post-Thanksgiving screenings of War of the Worlds, his hauntingly realistic reinvention of a Sci Fi classic that transforms an alien invasion into a terrifying story of survival. When colossal extraterrestrial machines suddenly emerge from beneath the Earth and begin annihilating entire cities, divorced dockworker Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is forced to protect his children as civilization collapses around them. As humanity struggles to comprehend the scale of the catastrophe, Ray’s desperate journey becomes a fight not to save the world, but simply to keep his family alive. Released in the shadow of a newly changed America, War of the Worlds channels post-9/11 anxieties into some of the most intense and visceral spectacle of Spielberg’s career. Stripping away triumphalism in favor of fear, the film stands as one of his darkest works. It's a reminder that even at his most pessimistic, Spielberg never loses sight of the human beings at the center of the story, making it the perfect film to conclude our 14 film retrospective of his work. 

One...last...plan. Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie is back for yet another late night party screening at The Frida Cinema! And this time around, we're playing the brand new Commentary Track Version featuring Matt Johnson, Jay McCarrol, Jared Raab, and Matt Greyson!  As the long-gestating feature expansion of the cult Canadian series Nirvanna the Band the Show, created by and starring Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol, the film continues the misadventures of the two best friends. As relentlessly delusional Toronto musicians, their main goal in life is to “play a show at the Rivoli.” When their plan goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008. Like the series, the movie blurs fiction and reality, staging elaborate public pranks with unsuspecting bystanders while escalating the characters’ schemes to increasingly absurd and self-destructive extremes. If you love comedy that feels like it might collapse at any second, or perhaps maybe even get its creators thrown in jail, boy do we have a movie for you and your friends to come see!

Join us in celebrating 25 years of Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums, our Frida Cinema Film Club Members Only screening for the month of November! This gloriously dysfunctional family comedy follows the eccentric Tenenbaums, a clan of once-brilliant child prodigies whose adult lives have been anything but extraordinary. Estranged patriarch Royal (Gene Hackman) suddenly reappears after years of abandonment, claiming to be terminally ill in an attempt to win back his family. His return brings together his three troubled children: a gifted but emotionally withdrawn playwright (Ben Stiller), a tennis prodigy in the midst of a breakdown (Luke Wilson), and an adopted daughter harboring a lifetime of secrets (Gwyneth Paltrow).  Featuring an extraordinary ensemble cast, The Royal Tenenbaums is a meticulously crafted comedy about faded genius and second chances. With some of Wes's most memorable characters in his filmography, this 2001 classic earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and remains one of the defining films of the early 2000s indie-cinema boom. And that soundtrack? One of the greats! Not a Frida Cinema Film Club member? Sign up here!

Trash-Mex is closing our their series of four classic Mexican horror films with one of the wildest films ever made: Chano Urueta’s El barón del terror (1962), aka The Brainiac! In 1661, the Inquisition sentences Baron d'Estera (Abel Salazar) to be burned at the stake for his sorcery. Three hundred years later, the Baron returns to Mexico City on a comet, to exact a peculiar form of vengeance upon the descendants of his tormentors... by sucking out their brains! Starring Abel Salazar as the resurrected aristocrat with a taste for gray matter, El barón del terror is a deliriously demented slice of Mexican horror, serving up grotesque creature effects and one of the wildest monster designs in the genre. Come for the cursed Baron, stay for the brain buffet!

Our Walt Disney Studies series charters new territory with a double feature of the 2008 documentary Walt & Grupo, followed by the 1942 short film Saludos Amigos in an evening we're calling South of the Border with Walt Disney! And during the interval between the features, a discussion and Q&A with the director, Theodore Thomas, will be hosted and moderated by Disney Historian Jeff Kurtti. Walt & El Grupo: It was 1941, a critical time for the world and for the Walt Disney Studio. When the U.S. Government asked Walt to be a cultural ambassador to South America, the stage was set for his very own real-life adventure. With a group of handpicked artists, later called "El Grupo," Walt's road trip achieved the impossible: goodwill. And in the process, it paved the way for two classic Disney films, Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros. Saludos Amigos: A whimsical blend of live-action and animation, Saludos Amigos is a colorful kaleidoscope of art, adventure and music set to a toe-tapping samba beat. From high Andes peaks and Argentina's pampas to the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro, your international traveling companions are none other than those famous funny friends, Donald Duck and Goofy. They keep things lively as Donald encounters a stubborn llama and "El Gaucho" Goofy tries on the cowboy way of life...South American style.

The penultimate film in our Art House 101: Global Queer Cinema series is Joyland, Saim Sadiq’s tender, quietly radical portrait of family and the complicated ways we perform the roles society gives us. Haider lives with his wife and extended family in Lahore, where everyone seems to have a carefully prescribed role, especially the men. When Haider secretly takes a job as a backup dancer for an erotic theater troupe, he meets Biba, a magnetic transgender performer, and the two begin a relationship that forces Haider to confront desires he has spent his life suppressing. Meanwhile, the women in his family are struggling under their own impossible expectations, creating a portrait of a household where everyone is searching for some kind of freedom. With Joyland, Sadiq brings an extraordinary tenderness to a story about a family in contemporary Pakistan. Sensual without being sensationalistic and heartbreaking without ever losing its warmth, the film became the first Pakistani film selected for the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Queer Palm. At its heart, Joyland is about what happens when the life you’re expected to want collides with the life you secretly desire. We think it's one of the best films of the 2020s, and a perfect fit for this series!

Barbara Stanwyck is at her most captivating (and boy is that saying something) in Remember the Night, the bittersweet holiday classic from director Mitchell Leisen and legendary screenwriter Preston Sturges! And as an added bonus, film critic and author Alonso Duralde will be joining us to introduce the film and sign copies of his book Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas! When shoplifter Lee Leander (Stanwyck) is arrested for stealing a bracelet just before Christmas, New York prosecutor John Sargent (Fred MacMurray) finds himself unexpectedly sympathetic to her case. After a trial delay sends them both home for the holidays, John takes Lee along for the journey, introducing her to his warm, welcoming family and an entirely different kind of Christmas. Released in 1940, Remember the Night showcases Stanwyck's remarkable ability to balance sharp-edged wit and emotional depth. Paired with MacMurray years before their iconic collaboration in Double Indemnity, this is a beautiful reminder of why she remains one of classic Hollywood's all-time greats!

Your senses will never be the same. Segerstrom Center is back at The Frida Cinema to present a screening of Ken Russell's Tommy, the 1975 blockbuster musical adapted from British rock legends The Who! After witnessing a traumatic act of violence as a child, young Tommy Walker becomes deaf, dumb, and blind, retreating into an internal world that leaves him seemingly unreachable. But when he discovers an extraordinary gift for pinball, Tommy becomes an unlikely sensation, attracting devoted followers and setting the stage for a bizarre journey. Featuring an incredible cast including Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Elton John, Tina Turner, Eric Clapton, and Jack Nicholson, Tommy is a full-throttle cinematic experience unlike almost anything else in the rock-musical canon. The film earned multiple Academy Award nominations, including a Best Actress nod for Ann-Margret, and remains one of the most audacious musical experiments of the 1970s.ret, Oliver Reed, Elton John, Tina Turner, Eric Clapton, and Jack Nicholson, Tommy is a full-throttle cinematic experience unlike almost anything else in the rock-musical canon. The film earned multiple Academy Award nominations, including a Best Actress nod for Ann-Margret, and remains one of the most audacious musical experiments of the 1970s.

The new horror-comedy Jump Scare is coming to The Frida Cinema! And stick around after the screening, as we are joined by writer/director Donnie Hobbie for an in-person Q&A! An all-female metal band called “Jump Scare” retreats to a remote cabin to write their next album, only to be terrorized by the family of cannibals next door. The film is part phantasmagoric homage to filmmakers like Don Coscarelli and Chuck Russell, part punk-rock ode to grindhouse slasher cinema, and a post-modern cannibal film that also happens to co-star everyone's favorite working actor, Eric Roberts.

Released in 1982 to near-instant cult status, Slava Tsukerman’s Liquid Sky is a surreal collision of new wave, fashion, drugs, and extraterrestrial weirdness, and easily one of the strangest movies to emerge from New York’s downtown scene. Anne Carlisle stars as both Margaret and Jimmy, a pair of androgynous club kids whose chaotic lives are upended when a tiny alien spacecraft lands on the roof of their apartment building. Leaving a trail of increasingly bizarre encounters in its wake, as well as a few dead bodies, the alien has come to Earth in search of a mysterious substance produced during human sexual activity. Shot on the streets and in the clubs of early-’80s Manhattan, and on an extremely low budget estimated at approximately $500,000, Liquid Sky nevertheless exudes a look and attitude that feel remarkably ahead of their time. Released during the height of the early-’80s New York new wave scene, Liquid Sky has become a cult touchstone for anyone interested in the intersection of underground cinema, electronic music, NY fashion, and queer nightlife. The soundtrack to Liquid Sky is as strange and distinctive as the movie itself. Composer Brenda I. Hutchinson and director Slava Tsukerman built the score around primitive synthesizers, electronic textures, and the sounds of New York’s downtown club scene, creating something that feels less like a conventional movie score than music beamed in from another planet. A slight cheat in our Unsung 80's Soundtracks series in the sense that Liquid Sky's sounds are more of a score, its entirely synthetic soundtrack, mirroring the film’s icy visual palette and alienated characters, felt like an essential for the era.

On Saturday, December 5th, 2026, an annual Frida Cinema tradition continues. It's The Lord Of The Rings Extended Edition Trilogy Marathon! Come watch these three masterpieces back-to-back-to-back on the big screen! The schedule will be as follows: 11:00AM -  LOTR General Admission guests are admitted to get their seats! 12:00PM - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (208 minutes) 3:30PM - 15 minute break for Second Breakfast (30 min with credits) 3:45PM - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (225 minutes) 7:30PM - 45 minute break for Dinner (1 hour with credits) 8:15PM - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (252 minutes) 12:30AM - Our journey comes to an end! We are offering GA ($40) tickets only to this screening! Throw on your comfiest clothes, grab a pillow and blanket, and take a 13-hour journey with us through Middle Earth! Member discounts and Frida Cinema comp passes not valid.

"Like Lethal Weapon only far funnier and with more chainsaw action." -Total DVD After so much emotion and violence, we are choosing to close our Hong Kong Action Essentials series by cutting loose with little bit laughter and...uhhh...more violence. Directed by Lau Kar-leung and starring Chow Yun-fat, Tiger on the Beat follows a pair of mismatched cops on the trail of a violent drug dealer, a case that escalates from street-level comedy into something far more savage and unhinged. What begins as a rambunctious action/comedy steadily sheds its humor, morphing into a full-throttle collision of gunplay, hand-to-hand combat, and sheer physical excess. By the time it reaches its infamous finale, the film has abandoned restraint entirely, delivering the perfectly brutal and messy ending to our series. Our Hong Kong Action Essentials series explores the time from the mid-’80s through the early ’90s, where Hong Kong filmmakers rewrote the grammar of action cinema forever. Directors like John Woo, Tsui Hark, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Ringo Lam, and Lau Kar-Leung fused balletic gunplay, risky stunts, martial arts virtuosity, and raw emotional intensity into a new cinematic language that would be oft-imitated but never replicated. (sorry, The Matrix, we love you too!) Join us every month in 2026 as we explore this golden age where style and emotion collided to change movies forever.

Hundreds of Beavers, one of the most entertaining and enduring independent films of the past decade, is back at The Frida Cinema for one final screening on December 6th!  Called “gonzo cinema distilled from Buster Keaton to George Miller” (LA Times), “one of the most inventive comedies in years” (RogerEbert.com), that “puts most big screen comedies to shame,” (The Daily Beast), this impossible indie has become a word-of-mouth phenomenon — selling out theaters, melting Letterboxd & Rotten Tomatoes, and putting audiences worldwide into stitches. Equal parts silent-era stunt work, Looney Tunes energy, and pure filmmaking lunacy, this is a cult hit that’s too much dam fun to stream alone at home!

What better way to end our Art House 101: Global Queer Cinema series than by celebrating the magic of the movie theater with Tsai Ming-Liang’s haunting, hypnotic Goodbye, Dragon Inn. On the final night before an old Taipei movie palace closes its doors, a handful of patrons gather to watch King Hu’s classic martial arts film Dragon Inn. On screen, swordsmen battle in a long-gone world of cinematic fantasy. In the theater, ghosts seem to linger in the shadows, a projectionist works almost entirely unseen, and a mysterious young man wanders through the empty corridors searching for connection. Among the sparse audience are two aging actors who once appeared together in Dragon Inn, watching themselves, and the cinema they once knew, disappear. With almost no dialogue and an extraordinary sensitivity to the act of watching, Tsai Ming-liang transforms a nearly empty movie theater into a place of queer longing. The furtive glances, anonymous encounters, and solitary figures drifting through the darkness evoke the secretive spaces where desire has so often found refuge. Goodbye, Dragon Inn is a film about so many things: a ghost story, a love letter to cinema, and a profoundly melancholic meditation on loneliness. Goodbye, Art House 101: Global Queer Cinema! 

See It On 16mm is back at The Frida to celebrate the 40th birthday of one of the most gloriously bizarre big-screen spectacles of all time: Howard the Duck! When Howard, a wisecracking, cigar-smoking duck from a distant planet, is accidentally transported to Cleveland by a scientific experiment gone wrong, he finds himself stranded in a strange new world. With the help of aspiring rock singer Beverly Switzler (Lea Thompson), Howard must find a way to phone home, ermmm...get back home!  Produced by George Lucas and directed by Willard Huyck, Howard the Duck became one of the most infamous theatrical releases of its era, earning a reputation as a spectacular box-office misfire before finding a devoted cult following. Featuring a killer soundtrack and awesome practical effects, this slice of '80s cinema is a reminder that sometimes the weirdest movies are the most fun to revisit.

Our Classic Movie Nights series is closes out the year with the beloved Ernst Lubitsch romantic classic The Shop Around the Corner! Alfred Kralik and Klara Novak are co-workers at a small leather goods shop in Budapest who can barely stand each other. What neither knows is that they have secretly fallen in love as anonymous pen pals, pouring their hearts out in letters to one another. As their relationship blossoms on paper, their prickly day-to-day rivalry becomes increasingly complicated by the realization that love may be hiding in the most unexpected place. Starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan, The Shop Around the Corner is one of Hollywood's most enduring romantic comedies, balancing Lubitsch's signature wit and sophistication with genuine warmth and tenderness. Its clever mistaken-identity premise and beautifully drawn characters have made it a lasting classic.  Please make sure to get to this showtime early, as our beloved Marketing Director, Bekah, will be doing a pre-screening presentation on the film! 

Please note: this screening will be projected on 35mm film. Frida Cinema comp passes do not apply. Cameron Winter, in December 2025, after a months-long sold-out tour with his band Geese, returned to New York to play a single show at Carnegie Hall. This is the movie. Directed and shot on 35mm and 16mm by Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another, There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights), the crew includes filmmaker and actor Benny Safdie (Uncut Gems, Good Time) and music producer Ariel Rechtshaid (Grammy winner for albums with Vampire Weekend and Adele). GQ praised Cameron Winter’s show at Carnegie Hall as “staggeringly good,” and Nick Cave said he has a "a glorious, emotive voice with brilliant, blistering words, a racked and wondrous thing.” Winter’s solo album Heavy Metal was named one of the best of the year by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Paste and Mojo and Geese’s last record Getting Killed was named the best album of 2025 by The New Yorker, NME, and Stereogum.

The bittersweet end to this year's Walt Disney Studies series is the beloved animated classic Lady and the Tramp! And as an early holiday present, Theodore (Theo) Gluck will be joining us to give a very informative and entertaining post-screening presentation entitled "Walt on the Wide Screen"! The film follows dog’s-eye-view adventures of Lady, a lovingly pampered cocker spaniel, and Tramp, a freewheeling mutt with a heart of gold in Walt Disney’s beloved classic—the first animated feature ever produced in the widescreen CinemaScope process. This heartwarming tale now charms a new generation of families and fans with its exquisite animation, unforgettable songs and one of the dog-gonedest love stories of all time. "Walt on the Wide Screen": Film authority Theo Gluck offers an overview of the era of the widescreen revolution as Hollywood—a response to the looming specter of television. Disney, like all the other studios, was not immune to this innovation, so they answered the call to mutually combat this threat by quickly gearing up to offer widescreen product.

Described as a "Rock & Roll Fable" by its director Walter Hill, 1984's Streets of Fire is an essential inclusion in our Unsung 80’s Soundtracks series. Michael Paré stars as Tom Cody, a tough-as-nails mercenary finds himself pulled back into a life he left behind when his former girlfriend, rock star Ellen Aim (Diane Lane), is kidnapped by motorcycle gang leader Raven Shaddock (Willem Dafoe). Enlisted by Ellen’s manager Billy Fish (Rick Moranis), Tom joins forces with his former partner McCoy (Weapons Oscar-winner Amy Madigan), and sets out into the neon-lit, rain-soaked streets of the city to rescue her. Blending rock & roll, comic-book melodrama, and 1950s street-gang mythology, Streets of Fire features original songs mixed in with 80's staples such as Dan Hartman’s “I Can Dream About You," as well as performances by the Blasters, Ry Cooder, and others, ultimately earning its cult status as something of a rock concert wrapped around a plot.

Our Heist Hallucinations series is pulling off its final score of the year with Steve McQueen’s 2018 thriller Widows! When a botched heist leaves four women widowed and drowning in debt, Veronica Rawlings (Viola Davis) discovers that her late husband left behind a plan for one final job. With nothing left to lose, she recruits Linda (Michelle Rodriguez), Alice (Elizabeth Debicki), and Belle (Cynthia Erivo) to finish the job...and settle a few scores of their own. Based on the British television series and co-written by Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), McQueen’s film is a sleek, bruising reinvention of the heist movie, using the mechanics of a robbery to explore ghe women left behind by a criminal world built for men. And the cast is stacked: Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Colin Farrell, Daniel Kaluuya, Brian Tyree Henry, and Robert Duvall.

A singing plant. A daring hero. A sweet girl. A demented dentist. It's the most outrageous musical comedy ever made! HorrorBuzz caps off its year of 40th anniversary screenings with the show-stopping musical Little Shop of Horrors! Meek flower-shop clerk Seymour Krelborn (Frida favorite Rick Moranis) discovers a mysterious plant after a solar eclipse and names it Audrey II, after his coworker-crush Audrey (Ellen Greene). But this plant doesn’t want sunlight or water....it wants blood. As Audrey II grows from a cute little sprout to a fast-talking menace, Seymour must choose between fame, fortune, and doing the right thing…preferably before the plant eats the whole block. Horror Movie Night takes filmgoing to another level with a full night of entertainment, including a themed HMN Video Pres-how, Trivia, Games, Prizes, and another outstanding horror short from HorrorBuzz’s The Screaming Room Film Festival at Midsummer Scream. Doors open and video pre-show video begins promptly at 7:30 pm. Games, prizes, and short film begin at 8:00PM. Feature starts at 8:30PM. This program is a venue rental engagement. The views and opinions expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of The Frida Cinema or its staff.

Join cult filmmaker and drag icon Peaches Christ, Sleepaway Camp star Felissa Rose, and filmmaker and podcaster Michael Varrati for an unforgettable evening celebrating one of the most gloriously shocking horror films of all time! The event begins with a live pre-show featuring performances, conversation with Peaches, Felissa, and Michael, behind-the-scenes stories, audience participation, and a 1980s Camp Costume Contest, followed by a screening of Sleepaway Camp. A limited VIP Meet & Greet experience ($80) will also be available. Whether you’re a longtime fan or a first-time camper, this is a unique chance to experience Sleepaway Camp like never before! VIP ticket holders will be invited to a special meet-and-greet with Felissa Rose, Peaches Christ, and Michael Varrati at 6:30PM including a photo opportunity and autographs (up to two items per guest). 6:30 PM Doors Open for VIP ticket holders | 7 PM Doors open for general admission ticket holders | 7:30 PM Live pre-show | 8:30 PM Feature Presentation Frida Cinema member discount and comp passes do not apply!