Linda Linda Linda is celebrating a 20th anniversary with a brand new 4K restoration via our friends at GKIDS!
For Kei, Kyoko, and Nozomi, their dream of playing the final high school concert together is dashed when their lead vocalist quits the band. Desperate, they recruit the very first person they see: Korean exchange student Son, played by Doona Bae (The Host, Broker), whose comprehension of Japanese is limited at best. It’s a race against time as the group struggles to learn three songs in three days for the festival’s rock concert.
Linda Linda Linda is an effervescent, tenderhearted snapshot of youth about the unparalleled joy of jamming out with your friends. The soundtrack fuses bangers from iconic Japanese bands The Blue Hearts and Base Ball Bear with original music composed by James Iha of the Smashing Pumpkins. The beloved classic from Nobuhiro Yamashita (Ghost Cat Anzu) is acknowledged by many as one of the greatest Japanese films of the 21st century.
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What do you get when you have three generations of comedians in one family, and someone dies? If you guessed an independent autobiographical self-funded feature-length dark comedy, you’d be absolutely right. D(e)AD is written by and starring Isabella Roland (Dropout.tv, Sex Lives Of College Girls); and directed by and starring Isabella’s mom, Claudia Lonow (creator/showrunner of How to Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life, Accidentally on Purpose, Good Girls Don’t and Rude Awakening); and also the rest of their family.
Tillie (Isabella Roland), a floundering young woman and her charismatic, alcoholic father (Craig Bierko), struggle to resolve their fractured relationship in the weirdest possible way: after he dies, his ghost appears in mirrors to haunt everyone in the family but Tillie. Tillie’s sister, Violet (Vic Michaelis), mother (Claudia Lonow), grandparents (Mark Lonow and Joanne Astrow), stepfather (Jonathan Schmock), and even Violet’s free-spirited baby daddy (Nick Marini), must do everything they can to make Tillie see her father… even employing a very reform rabbi (Eddie Peppitone) to exorcize him… or else they will be plagued by this ghost forever.
Just added: after the screening, we will be joined by Izzy Roland, Claudia Lonow, and Jonathan Schmock for a special in-person Q&A!
Tickets are $15 for this special event and $40 for a ticket + exclusive poster for the film!
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You asked. You manifested it. Only you are to blame. Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales is coming back for a one-night-only descent into madness, messiah complexes, and post-apocalyptic SoCal chaos as part of our In Defense Of…series courtesy of our founder and Executive Director Logan Crow! And as a fun bonus, we are screening the rarely-seen Cannes Cut of the film!
A delirious, genre-melting fever dream from the director of Donnie Darko, this sci-fi satire is part dystopian epic, part musical, part political prophecy—and 100% unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Set in a fractured near-future America (or was it 2008?), the film stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as a paranoid action star with amnesia, Sarah Michelle Gellar as a porn star turned media mogul, and Seann William Scott as…twins?
Infamously booed at Cannes and boasting a cool 41% on Rotten Tomatoes, Southland Tales has since earned a devoted cult following for its audacity, ambition, and total refusal to color inside the lines. Love it, hate it, or leave the theater slightly altered—this is a film that demands to be experienced loud, big, and with other humans asking, “Wait, was that Justin Timberlake lip-syncing The Killers?”
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What better way would there be to end our Classic Movie Nights year than with a Technicolor sleigh ride of holiday cheer? Join us for White Christmas—a 1954 spectacle that wraps up the holiday season in a little bit of the ole showbiz razzle-dazzle.
Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye are war buddies turned song-and-dance men, teaming up with the talented Haynes sisters (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) to save a struggling Vermont inn—and the spirit of the general who once led them through war. What follows is a mix of backstage musical and holiday heart-warmer, decked out in dazzling costumes, toe-tapping numbers, and Irving Berlin’s iconic score (yes, that “White Christmas”).
Directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) and drenched in the glow of early VistaVision, this is comfort cinema at its finest—a film that knows exactly when to crack a joke, when to break into song, and when to simply let the snow fall.
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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Our Classic Movie Nights series takes a delightful detour into Screwball Country with Ernst Lubitsch’s final completed film, the effervescent Cluny Brown!
Jennifer Jones is Cluny—a spirited, plumber-loving young woman whose knack for bursting social bubbles gets her sent off to service in a country manor. There, she collides with Charles Boyer’s dashing, penniless intellectual hiding from the Nazis (as one does), and the result is a whip-smart satire wrapped in romantic whimsy. Lubitsch, the master of sophisticated comedy, skewers British class structures with his trademark light touch and sly innuendo, delivering laughs with a wink and wisdom with a smile.
Not quite a romance, not quite a farce, Cluny Brown is a story about people who don’t quite fit—but maybe fit each other perfectly.
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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FanMail Cinema Club is invading The Frida for the first time as they are presenting a very special screening of the 2004 animated classic Shrek 2, featuring themed mini-cakes by Keelys Cake Studio, face painting by La Rainbow Fiesta, merch and photo ops by FanMail Cinema Club, a cosplay contest, and so much more!
Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona’s mother and father, the Queen and King. But not everyone is happily ever after. Shrek and the King find it difficult to get along, and there’s tension in the marriage. The Fairy Godmother discovers that Fiona has married Shrek instead of her son Prince Charming and plots to destroy their marriage.
Don’t miss this laugh riot on the big screen with a rowdy crowd full of Shrek fans! Doors open at 7:00PM and the movie will start at 8:15PM sharp!
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Sorry in advance. October’s Hallucinations screening is Frank Henenlotter’s uproarious gross-out horror Frankenhooker!
When Jeffrey Franken’s fiancée meets an unfortunate end via runaway lawnmower, his grief drives him to an entirely reasonable conclusion: build her a new body from the “best parts” of New York’s sex workers. Enter lightning, purple potions, and more bad decisions than humanly possible. It’s cartoon slapstick meets a morally questionable science fair.
If mad science is an art form, this is its neon masterpiece.
Hosted by Polygon’s editor-in-chief Chris Plante, Hallucinations is a monthly event that spotlights movies that challenge our expectations of story, style, and “good taste”. We invite guests to bond over films that change what we expect from the medium, the world, and themselves. So come early, stay late, make friends, and watch something strange, surprising, or just shamelessly sick.
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The Frida Cinema is excited to present the brand new candy-colored absurdist animated comedy Boys Go To Jupiter, with the star of the film, Jack Corbett, joining us in-person for a Q&A after the screening!
The story follows Billy 5000, a teenage gig worker in suburban Florida. He tries to earn enough money to move out of his sister’s garage. His plans are disrupted by the arrival of a gelatinous alien named Donut. Billy must protect Donut from the schemes of the Dolphin Groves Juice Company and its CEO, Dr. Dolphin.
Boys Go To Jupiter features a cast of comedic talent, including Jack Corbett as Billy 5000, Janeane Garofalo as Dr. Dolphin, Tavi Gevinson as Glarba, Elsie Fisher as Beatbox, and Joe Pera as Herschel Cretaceous, among many others!
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As if! It’s been 30 years since Cher Horowitz first schooled us in the art of high school survival—and we’re celebrating it in style: with a special screening of the 1995 classic plus a bonus double feature of Amy Heckerling and Alicia Silverstone’s Vamps from 2012! And as a bonus bonus, Griffin Newman (“Griffin” on the Blank Check Podcast and “Watto” on The George Lucas Talk Show) will be in the house to introduce BOTH films!
Amy Heckerling’s Clueless remains the ultimate ’90s teen comedy: sharp, stylish, and endlessly quotable. Follow Cher, Dionne, and the gang through Beverly Hills’ hallways and malls as they navigate friendship, fashion, and, of course, the quest to find the perfect date.
Vamps is about two bloodsucking party girls (Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter) find their destinies at stake when one falls for the son of a vampire hunter and the other encounters a long-ago love.
One ticket gets you access to both films and there will be a 15 minute intermission between them. Don’t miss this pairing on the big screen with a rowdy crowd!
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Celebrate Silent Film Day with our friends at Flickrhappy as they present a 100th anniversary screening of The Freshman! And as an added bonus, Suzanne Lloyd, granddaughter of silent comedy legend Harold Lloyd, will be joining us in-person to introduce the film and share rare insights into her grandfather’s life and legacy! Adding even more to the magic, renowned silent film composer and pianist Cliff Retallick will provide live musical accompaniment.
Harold Lloyd’s biggest box office hit and still one of the most beloved comedies of the silent era, The Freshman follows Harold Lloyd as an eager college freshman who dreams of being a big man on campus, though his careful plans inevitably go hilariously awry. But he gets a climactic chance to prove his mettle and impress the sweet girl he loves in one of the most famous sports sequences ever filmed.
Don’t miss this chance to experience and celebrate the 100th anniversary of a silent film masterpiece the way it was meant to be seen: on the big screen, with live music!
This program is a venue rental engagement. Member discounts and Frida Cinema comp passes not valid. 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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