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!
Drop Dead Gorgeous
- Fri, Jan 3
- Sat, Jan 4
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: Michael Patrick Jann Run Time: 98 min. Release Year: 1999
Starring: Allison Janney, Denise Richards, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst, Kirstie Alley
Who says our Party Like It's 1999 series is over? Our first January Volunteer of the Month is Gio Carrillo, who has chosen the cult comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous! In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.
2046
- Mon, Jan 20
- Tue, Jan 21
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: Wong Kar-Wai Run Time: 128 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2004 Language: Chinese
Starring: Faye Wong, Gong Li, Takuya Kimura, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Zhang Ziyi
Our second January Volunteer of the Month is Alexander Canellos, who has chosen Wong Kar-Wai's 2046 as his VOTM pick! The film follows Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai), a writer grappling with heartbreak and longing as he navigates a series of fleeting romances in 1960s Hong Kong. His experiences inspire a futuristic, allegorical novel about a train to the year 2046, a place where passengers go to recover lost memories but from which no one ever returns. Chow's relationships—with enigmatic women like the glamorous Bai Ling (Zhang Ziyi), the mysterious Su Li-zhen (Gong Li), and others—mirror his internal struggles with love and detachment.