Real women take chances, have flaws and embrace life…
Celebrate Women’s History Month with a free screening of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award-winning film Real Women Have Curves,presented by our friends at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts!
America Ferrera stars in her feature film debut as a first-generation Mexican American student who finds herself juggling her own ambitions, her mother’s expectations and a community of women working together in an East Los Angeles garment factory.
Attendees of the screening will have the opportunity to win a pair of tickets to the West Coast premiere of Curves In Concert, a one night only concert adaptation of Real Women Have Curves: The Musical on Friday, March 20, 2026 at Segerstrom Center for the Arts. This performance features members of the original Broadway cast and includes a free 20-minute talkback/Q&A with the cast alongside original playwright, Josefina López.
Frida Cinema fans get 10% off tickets with code: CURVESCOMMUNITY at scfta.org/curves
Real Women Have Curves: The Musical features a Tony-nominated score by Grammy® Award–winning songwriter Joy Huerta (Jesse & Joy) and Benjamin Velez (Kiss My Aztec), a book by Lisa Loomer (Girl, Interrupted) with Nell Benjamin (Mean Girls), music supervision by Nadia DiGiallonardo (Waitress) and choreography and direction by Tony® Award winner Sergio Trujillo (Ain’t Too Proud)
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Pillion, the highly-anticipated new movie from filmmaker Harry Lighton, starring Alexander Skasgard and Harry Melling, is coming to The Frida Cinema!
The story follows Colin, a timid gay man, is swept off his feet when Ray, an enigmatic and impossibly handsome biker, takes him on as his submissive in a crazy and erotic BDSM-focused relationship.
The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival and won accolades for its screenplay and overall standout reception. It also earned multiple British Independent Film Awards, including Best British Independent Film.
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What A Cast!…What A Past!…What A Show!…
Our Staff Pick for the month of March comes from Bekah, our Marketing Director, as she has chosen the Shirley MacLaine starrer What A Way To Go!
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
What a Way to Go! is an outrageous 1960s comedy full of campy satire. It’s a sparkling showcase of Hollywood excess and MacLaine’s fearless comedic charm. And did we mention…Paul Newman? Any takers!?
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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!
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Adapted from Sunil Gangopadhyay’s celebrated 1968 novel, Days and Nights in the Forest is one of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements, a modern search for connection that conjures the timeless resonance of a folktale.
Desperate to flee Calcutta’s rat race, four friends, Ashim (Soumitra Chatterjee), Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee), Hari (Samit Bhanja), and Shekhar (Rabi Ghosh), drive to Palamu, one of India’s rural “tribal lands,” where they bribe a watchman into letting them stay at a sylvan guesthouse. Despite vowing to get away from it all, the crew soon mixes with the locals, including a woodland family: the soulful yet mischievous Aparna (Sharmila Tagore) takes to the overconfident Ashim, while her widowed sister-in-law Jaya (Kaberi Bose) grows closer to the bookish Sanjoy. At the same time, Hari, fresh off a break-up, woos a Santal girl named Duli (Simi Garewal); and Shekhar, despite his own penchant for gambling, tries to rein in his companions’ boozy hedonism.
Filled with some of Ray’s most indelible characterizations and lavish images (shot by longtime cinematographer Soumendu Roy), Days and Nights in the Forest touches on masculine vulnerabilities and Indian class divisions with the graceful complexity of a master at his peak.
Restored in 4K in 2025 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Film Heritage Foundation in collaboration with Janus Films – The Criterion Collection at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, from the original camera and sound negatives provided by Purnima Dutta and the magnetic track preserved by BFI National Archive. Funding provided by the Golden Globe Foundation. Special thanks to Wes Anderson and Sandip Ray.
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Next season’s fashion victim, Idiotka, is coming to The Frida Cinema. Premiering at last year’s SXSW, it’s a hilarious send-up of the worlds of fashion and reality television.
In this sharp, irreverent comedy, a disgraced fashion designer with a dangerously low credit score, Margarita (Anna Baryshnikov) enters a reality show with a six-figure cash prize to save her babushka’s West Hollywood apartment. But as the competition intensifies, slick producer Nicol (Camila Mendes) pushes her to spin her family’s struggle into spectacle, forcing Margarita to decide whether to play along or take control of her own narrative, one unhinged look at a time.
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Celebrate the life of the incomparable Catherine O’Hara with a pitch-perfect double feature of two mockumentary masterpieces: Waiting for Guffman and A Mighty Wind.
Waiting for Guffman: An eccentric theatre troupe mounts an original musical to celebrate their town’s 150th anniversary, convinced a Broadway producer named Guffman may attend and launch them to stardom.
A Mighty Wind: Three aging 1960s folk acts reunite for a memorial concert honoring their late manager, forcing old bandmates, ex-lovers, and long-buried tensions back into harmony.
From the earnest community-theatre hopefuls of small town Missouri to the wistful harmonies of reunited folk legends, O’Hara brings her unique blend of generational comic instinct and the ability to deliver earnest, real moments to every beautifully misguided dreamer she inhabits. Whether she’s belting out a hometown anthem with unshakable conviction or navigating the fragile egos of aging troubadours, her genius always lied in making the absurd feel achingly human.
There will be a ten minute intermission between each film. One ticket gets you access to both movies!
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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!
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What if the afterlife isn’t halos and harps…but a courtroom?
Flickrhappy is back at The Frida Cinema to present a special one-off screening of writer/director Albert Brooks’ ingenious 1991 comedy Defending Your Life!
Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller (Brooks) finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. As the self-doubting Daniel struggles to make his case, a budding relationship with the uninhibited Julia (Meryl Streep) offers him a chance to finally feel alive.
Funny and unexpectedly profound, Defending Your Life blends sharp existential satire with genuine romantic warmth. With scene-stealing turns by Rip Torn and Lee Grant, and Brooks at his most vulnerable and witty, the film turns life’s biggest questions into something both hilarious and deeply human.
Join us for this unforgettable big-screen screening and discover why sometimes the only way forward…is to defend your life.
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. Flickrhappy is allowing Frida Cinema members to use their regular discounts to this event!
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A group of college students attend a watch party for their friend’s newest independent film. The night takes a dark turn when a masked killer starts brutally killing the partygoers one at a time. With each death time resets and we see the events of the night through the eyes of the next attendee.
Amateur student filmmaker, Sean Davis, invites five friends over for the premiere of his overlong short film he made entirely on his own. Not only is Sean’s movie awful, but things just keep getting worse as the screening party attendees are stalked by a ruthless killer in a mask.
Over a single night, the mystery unfolds through the eyes of Wes, Mark, Kris, Anna, Peter, and Sean, changing between their distorted individual perspectives. With each perspective, more answers are revealed as characters generally live longer and see more than the last. Time resets over and over, seeing the party through all their perspectives. Plans go wrong, romance blossoms unexpectedly, the body count rises, and the Killer’s identity and motives are revealed. The subversive final perspective hilariously pays off everything set up in the previous ones.
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.
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