Volunteer of the Month
Our VOTM series invites a selected volunteer(s) to program a film of their choice, in gratitude of their stellar service!
Millennium Mambo
- Sun, Feb 8
- Mon, Feb 9
- Tue, Feb 10
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: Hou Hsiao-hsien Run Time: 106 min. Release Year: 2001 Language: Chinese
Starring: Doze Niu Cheng-Tse, Duan Chun-hao, Jack Kao, Jun Takeuchi, Shu Qi
A stylish and seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, Hou Hsiao-hsien's marvel Millenium Mambo is coming back to The Frida as a Volunteer Of The Month pick courtesy of the amazing Shreshta! Thee film stars Shu Qi (The Assassin) as an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend and towards Jack Kao’s suave, sensitive gangster. Structured as a flashback to the then-present from the then-future of 2011, it’s a transfixing trance-out of a movie, drenched in club lights, ecstatic endorphin-rush exhilaration, and a nagging undercurrent of ennui. Thank you to our friends at Kino Lorber for the stunning 4K restoration of this evocative portrayal of youth and Taipei at the turn of the millennium.
The Vanishing
- Wed, Feb 11
- Thu, Feb 12
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: George Sluizer Run Time: 106 min. Release Year: 1988 Language: Dutch
Starring: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Gwen Eckhaus, Johanna ter Steege, Pierre Forget
The Vanishing (1988) is our second Volunteer Of The Month pick for February, courtesy of the wonderful Julia! A young man embarks on an obsessive search for the girlfriend who mysteriously disappeared while the couple were taking a sunny vacation trip, and his three-year investigation draws the attention of her abductor, a mild-mannered professor with a clinically diabolical mind. An unorthodox love story and a truly unsettling thriller, Dutch filmmaker George Sluizer’s The Vanishing unfolds with meticulous intensity, leading to an unforgettable finale that has unnerved audiences around the world.