Remembering Catherine O'Hara
A comic force of nature with flawless timing and a gift for scene-stealing sincerity, Catherine O’Hara spent decades turning big personalities into beloved screen icons. Join us in March as we remember the wonderful characters she brought to life.
Best in Show + For Your Consideration Double Feature
- Mon, Mar 16
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Christopher Guest Run Time: 90 min. Release Year: 2000
Starring: Bob Balaban, Christopher Guest, Jennifer Coolidge, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock
Celebrate the brilliant comic artistry of Catherine O'Hara with another perfectly paired double feature of two more Christopher Guest mockumentaries: Best In Show and For Your Consideration! Best in Show: Hopeful dog owners, over-invested handlers, and very good boys descend on a prestigious canine competition, where obsessive pride and barely contained neuroses threaten to steal the spotlight from the pets themselves. For Your Consideration: A small indie film suddenly gains awards buzz, sending its cast and creators into a spiral of anxiety and showbiz fantasy as Hollywood hype rewrites their lives in real time. Whether its a high-strung pet parent clinging to ribbons and routines or a fragile actress daring to believe her moment has finally arrived, O’Hara once again proved her unmatched ability to balance razor-sharp satire with real emotional stakes. No one played delusional, and deeply human quite like she did, and these two films showcase that gift at its funniest and most poignant. There will be a ten minute intermission between each film. One ticket gets you access to both movies!
Beetlejuice: Presented by OC Pride
- Fri, Mar 20
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Tim Burton Run Time: 92 min. Release Year: 1988
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Catherine O'Hara, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Winona Ryder
In this house...if you've seen one ghost...you haven't seen them all! The Frida Cinema and OC Pride are teaming up to present a screening of Tim Burton's 1988 ghoulish comedy Beetlejuice in honor of the late, great Catherine O'Hara! As the gloriously pretentious, performance-artist-from-another-dimension Delia Deetz, O’Hara steals every scene she's in, as she often did throughout her entire career. Her operatic commitment to absurdity turns Delia into one of cinema’s greatest comic creations, just one in a long list of characters she brought her immortal comic pulse to. Burton's film balances the macabre with the heartfelt in only a way that he could. Don't miss a chance to see it on the big screen, one night only! Just added: the icon, Isabella Xochitl, will be joining us before the screening to perform a pre-show number!