Our Classic Movie Nights pick in February is Pillow Talk—the endlessly charming Doris Day/Rock Hudson comedy that helped define the golden age of Hollywood rom-coms.
Playboy songwriter Brad Allen’s succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.
Directed by master craftsman Michael Gordon and decked out in glamorous costumes and jazzy set design, Pillow Talk is studio-era comfort cinema at its most fun and quotable. The film earned Doris Day her first Academy Award nomination and cemented one of the most beloved screen pairings in movie history.
Make sure to get to the screening early, as our Marketing Director Bekah will be doing a very informative and entertaining presentation on the film before it starts!
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What better way is there to kick off our Classic Movie Nights series for 2026 than with the most charming game of cat-and-mouse ever put on screen? Join us for Charade—Stanley Donen’s irresistible mix of romance and suspense that pairs two of Hollywood’s brightest stars at the height of their powers.
After Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) falls for the dashing Peter Joshua (Cary Grant) on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband’s World War II cronies, Tex (James Coburn), Scobie (George Kennedy) and Gideon (Ned Glass), who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines. But why does Peter keep changing his name?
Often dubbed “the best Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made,” Charade pairs up Hepburn and Grant along with some witty dialogue and glamorous locations for some of the most flirtatious thrills of all time!
Make sure to get to the screening early, as our Marketing Director Bekah will be doing a very informative and entertaining presentation on the film before it starts!
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An annual holiday tradition unlike any other, Bekah’s Cozy Christmas Double is back for a third year! And this time, she’s picked the dynamic duo of The Thin Man and After The Thin Man!
The Thin Man: Retired detective Nick Charles (William Powell) and his quick-witted, glamorous wife Nora (Myrna Loy) return to New York for the holidays, only to get swept into a murder investigation involving a missing inventor, a nervous family, and a trail of clues that only Nick’s reluctant brilliance can untangle. Their martini-fueled banter and impeccable chemistry turn a standard whodunit into one of the era’s most sparkling comedies.
After The Thin Man: Picking up right where the first film ends, Nick and Nora return to San Francisco, where a family dinner quickly spirals into another murder case—this time involving Nora’s unstable cousin, her missing husband, and a lovesick third party played by a young James Stewart. Once again, Nick reluctantly takes the case, and once again Nora dives in with enthusiasm, cocktails in hand.
Seen together, these films showcase the rare magic of screen icons William Powell and Myrna Loy: two actors whose charm mixed so well with soft cynicism. Their style defined a whole era of sophisticated studio comedies and shaped the DNA of the modern mystery-romance, proving that a detective story could be as much about love as it is about clues.
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The members have spoken! We know it only came out a couple of years ago, but our Members Only screening for December is The Holdovers!
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Paul Giamatti’s performance as Paul Hunham cemented him as the most beloved sad-sack teacher since Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society (which we are also playing in December!), Dominic Sessa’s breakthrough performance turned him into a sudden indie darling, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s heartbreaking turn became one of the year’s most celebrated, earning her an Oscar at the 2024 Academy Awards.
We love our Film Club Members, and our monthly exclusive Film Club Members Only screenings are just one of our ways of thanking them for their support! Not a Film Club Member yet? CLICK HERE to join our growing family of fellow film-lovers and Frida Cinema supporters!
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A candy-coated fever dream of holiday excess, Jim Carrey’s How The Grinch Stole Christmas is finally making its way to our screens!
When it hit theaters in 2000, How the Grinch Stole Christmas wasn’t just another family holiday movie — it was a full-blown pop-culture phenomenon. Ron Howard and his crew turned Dr. Seuss’s 1957 classic into a live-action spectacle dripping with turn-of-the-millennium maximalism. Carrey’s Grinch is still one of the great comic performances of the era mixing weird creature effects with a full-blown existential meltdown. It’s the role that cemented him as the only actor unafraid (or unhinged enough) to try to out-Seuss Dr. Seuss.
Two decades later, How the Grinch Stole Christmas remains a strange and wonderful artifact of a bygone blockbuster era: a holiday movie made with the scale of a theme-park ride. It was easy to write off a movie like this at the time, but honestly? I don’t think we realized how good we had it.
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Join OC Pride, Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, and the entire Muppet gang as they bring Charles Dickens’ beloved tale to life with The Muppet Christmas Carol!
Charles Dickens’ classic story gets the Muppet treatment as Ebenezer Scrooge (an extremely committed Michael Caine), a cold-hearted miser, is visited on Christmas Eve by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. With help from Kermit’s Bob Cratchit, Miss Piggy’s Emily Cratchit, and a chorus of singing, joke-cracking Muppets, Scrooge is shown the impact of his greed — and given one last chance to open his heart and embrace the spirit of Christmas.
A little bit of Muppet mayhem is exactly what every holiday season needs. Don’t miss your chance to see this one on the big screen!
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Sex, bugs, and rock n’ roll! Our final In Defense Of…pick from 2026 comes courtesy of our Director Of Memberships, Bobby, as he’s chosen the 1996 cult comedy Joe’s Apartment!
Entirely a product of MTV’s weirdo golden age, Joe’s Apartment follows a fresh-faced transplant to New York who moves into the only place he can afford — a rundown East Village unit already occupied by an army of wisecracking, singing, dancing cockroaches.
Jerry O’Connell plays the perpetually overwhelmed Joe, whose attempts to survive city life quickly collapse under the chaos of his new six-legged roommates. With its mix of practical puppetry and anarchic cartoon energy, the film has become a cult favorite for anyone nostalgic for the heyday of midnight movies and VHS oddities.
About In Defense Of…: Who says critics and audiences get it right every time!? Revisit some of cinema’s most polarizing films, selected and presented by members of our staff!
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Have a very Terry Christmas, ya’ll! The Frida Cinema is excited to present a double feature of two wildly imaginative Terry Gilliam classics, Brazil and Twelve Monkeys, now celebrating their 40th and 30th anniversaries, respectively, with new 4K restorations!
Brazil (1985): A satirical fever dream of paperwork, plumbing, and paranoia, Brazil follows low-level clerk Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) as he stumbles into a deadly web of mistaken identity and resistance in a dystopia held together by duct tape and denial. With its baroque production design, razor-sharp humor, and unforgettable performances from Robert De Niro and Katherine Helmond, Brazil remains one of the great cinematic critiques of authoritarian absurdity. Forty years later, its vision of a future overwhelmed by incompetence feels both prophetic and painfully funny.
Twelve Monkeys (1995): Gilliam’s time-twisting thriller stars Bruce Willis as a prisoner sent back in time to stop a plague, only to question reality itself. Brad Pitt delivers one of his most electrifying performances as the unstable Jeffrey Goines, and Madeleine Stowe anchors the film with emotional intelligence. Twelve Monkeys fuses noir, sci-fi, and psychological horror into a gripping examination of memory, fate, and the thin line between sanity and prophecy. Three decades on, it’s as tense, inventive, and unsettling as ever.
This special anniversary double feature pairs the director’s most iconic visions of bureaucratic madness and apocalyptic fate, presented back-to-back on the big screen right where they belong.
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Join us as we ring in the holiday season by playing Nancy Meyers’ The Holiday for the first time ever!
Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz star as two women on opposite sides of the globe who impulsively swap homes for Christmas—one trading a cozy English cottage for sunny Los Angeles, the other escaping Hollywood hustle for snow-dusted Surrey. What begins as an experiment in escape soon turns into a chance for renewal, connection, and the kind of unexpected romance that only seems possible in December.
With Meyers’ signature warmth and gorgeous interiors (duh) and a dream ensemble (we didn’t even mention Jack Black, Jude Law, and the legendary Eli Wallach), The Holiday delivers everything you want from a seasonal favorite!
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Cinematic Void is closing our their year at The Frida Cinema by presenting a special 30th anniversary screening of the The Day Of The Beast, putting the “antichrist” in “Christmas”!
The story revolves around a Basque Roman Catholic priest dedicated to committing as many sins as possible, a death metal salesman from Carabanchel, and the Italian host of a TV show on the occult. These go on a literal “trip” through Christmas-time Madrid to hunt for and prevent the reincarnation of the Antichrist.
Director Álex de la Iglesia balances slapstick comedy and supernatural mayhem with ease, making The Day of the Beast is a gonzo cult classic that filled with crowd-pleasing holiday cheer.
This event is being co-presented by the fine folks at the American Cinematheque!
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