Our Page To Screen series is opening up the storybook that never gets old–Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride!
This is the rare film that truly has something for everyone: part fairy tale, part swashbuckling adventure, part romantic comedy, and all heart. Adapted by William Goldman from his own novel, it follows the epic love story of Westley and Buttercup, spun by a grandfather (Peter Falk) reading to his skeptical grandson (Fred Savage). Along the way? Duels, deception, miracle pills, and some of the most quotable dialogue ever put to screen.
Whether it’s your first time or your fiftieth, The Princess Bride is a timeless story of love, laughter, and one very determined man in black.
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A24 Films is proud to present the newest film in their 2025 slate–Sorry, Baby.
Written, directed by, and starring Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby follows Agnes, a once-promising academic whose life is frozen in the aftermath of a shattering personal betrayal—known only as “the bad thing.” Over the course of five emotionally intricate chapters, the film traces Agnes’s attempts to move forward while stuck in place, navigating the small-town routines of her adult life in New England. When her childhood friend Lydie (Naomi Ackie) returns from New York, their reunion reignites buried tensions, old comforts, and the question of whether healing is possible—or if survival is enough.
A sharply observed and darkly funny portrait of internalized grief and human connection, Sorry, Baby is both intimate and expansive, capturing the textures of time, memory, and the strange ways people grow apart, then back together.
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We’re turning back the clocks alllll the way to the year 2022 to present Damien Chazelle’s feverish epic Babylon as the latest entry in our 21st Century Cult series! A three-hour overdose of movie madness, it’s a kaleidoscopic descent into 1920s Los Angeles where silent cinema is dying, talkies are rising, and everyone is clawing for immortality in the ruins.
Starring Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, and Diego Calva, Babylon is as much a celebration of cinema’s chaotic birth as it is a cautionary tale about the price of ambition. With unhinged party scenes, stomach-turning slapstick, and some of the boldest filmmaking of the decade, Babylon is a film that dares to be too much—and dares you to look away.
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The teasingly entwined ambiguities of love and death are explored in Misericordia, now coming to The Frida Cinema for a limited engagement!
Set in an autumnal, woodsy village in his native region of Occitanie, his latest follows the meandering exploits of Jérémie (Félix Kysyl), an out-of-work baker who has drifted back to his hometown after the death of his beloved former boss, a bakery owner. Staying long after the funeral, the seemingly benign Jérémie begins to casually insinuate himself into his mentor’s family, including his kind-hearted widow (Catherine Frot) and venomously angry son (Jean-Baptiste Durand), while making an increasingly surprising—and ultimately beneficial—friendship with an oddly cheerful local priest (Jacques Develay).
In director Alain Guiraudie’s quietly carnal world, violence and eroticism explode with little anticipation, and criminal behavior can seem like a natural extension of physical desire. The French director is at the top of his game in Misericordia, again upending all genre expectations.
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Filmmaker Jim Hosking (The Greasy Strangler) is back in his bag for another absurdist fever dream with his new movie Ebony & Ivory! And stick around after the screening for a special in-person Q&A with Sky Elobar and Gil Gex, the stars of the film!
Two musical legends gather at a Scottish Cottage on The Mull Of Kintyre for a tense summit to discuss a potential collaboration that will ultimately result in a Global Number One smash hit single.
Absolute nonsense or pure brilliance? Ebony & Ivory walks the line with ease, practically daring you not to laugh throughout.
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Filmmaker Jim Hosking (The Greasy Strangler) is back in his bag with another absurdist fever dream with his new movie Ebony & Ivory!
Two musical legends gather at a Scottish Cottage on The Mull Of Kintyre for a tense summit to discuss a potential collaboration that will ultimately result in a Global Number One smash hit single.
Absolute nonsense or pure brilliance? Ebony & Ivory walks the line with ease, practically daring you not to laugh throughout.
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A twisted reimagining of a beloved fairytale that has emerged as one of the most buzzed-about horror films of 2025, The Ugly Stepsister comes to The Frida for two late night screenings!
Writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt’s visceral, aesthetically-sumptuous gothic body‑horror presents the Cinderella story as experienced through the eyes of her overlooked stepsister. Set in a decaying 18th‑century kingdom of “Swedlandia,” The Ugly Stepsister centers on awkward, bookish Elvira (a sensational Lea Myren, making her feature-film debut), whose ambitious mother Rebekka (Ane Dahl Torp) forces her into brutal cosmetic procedures and deadly beauty rituals, none of which will be spoiled here, all in a desperate bid to win Prince Julian’s affection over her radiant stepsister Agnes (Thea Sofie Loch Næss). It’s not all blood and gore, however; drawing from the darker undertones of the original Grimm tale, as well as her own struggles with body image, Blichfeldt masterfully employs symbolism, and Myren’s intense and fully-committed performance, to craft a film that stirs empathy just as powerfully as it unsettles.
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This August, The Frida Cinema proudly presents Greenaway & Nyman, a film series celebrating four of the most iconic collaborations between filmmaker Peter Greenaway and composter Michael Nyman. Our series’ third film is 1988’s Drowning by Numbers, Greenaway’s wickedly playful and morbid game of murder, repetition, and structure.
Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, and Joely Richardson star as three women from the same family, all of whom are each named Cissie Colpitts. Under seemingly rational pretenses, each woman drowns her own husband — but rather than seek justice, local coroner Madgett (Bernard Hill) becomes complicit, lured by his own ambitions. Structured like a counting game by literally placing the numbers 1 through 100 sequentially within its visuals and dialogue, Drowning by Numbers is an exercise in visual beauty marked by escalating absurdity, a grimly comic dark fable about rules, rituals, fate, and numbers.
Nominated for the Palm d’Or at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, Drowning By Numbers took home the festival’s Best Artistic Contribution prize, and won the Best Director Award at the Seattle International Film Festival.
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This August, The Frida Cinema proudly presents Greenaway & Nyman, a film series celebrating four of the most iconic collaborations between filmmaker Peter Greenaway and composter Michael Nyman. Our second film in the series is 1985’s A Zed and Two Noughts, a beautifully disturbing and darkly humorous take on erotic obsession and death.
When a swan causes a car accident in front of the Rotterdam Zoo, two women die and a third, Alba (Andrea Ferréol), loses her leg. Their two grieving husbands, twin zoologists Oliver and Oswald (Eric and Brian Deacon), fixate on their wives’ bodies, and slowly become obsessed with evolution and decomposition, even going as far as to meticulously craft exquisitely morbid time-lapsed films of decaying creatures. As the film evolves into an increasingly bizarre scientific fantasia, things get even stranger when a mad surgeon schemes to use Alba as a subject for his own experiments in animal symmetry. Highlighted by painterly compositions inspired by Vermeer, a hypnotic score by Nyman, and Greenaway’s signature dark comedy, A Zed and Two Noughts is a stylish and unsettling exploration of mortality and the limits of control.
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The Frida Cinema just hit 100,000 followers on Instagram, and as a massive thank you, we’re throwing a high-octane, turbo-charged party the only way we know how — with two FREE screenings of The Wachowskis’ eye-popping cult classic: Speed Racer!
Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the police and the mysterious Racer X to bring an end to the corruption and criminal activities.
Come experience the visually electric, emotionally turbocharged thrill ride that was way ahead of its time. Whether you’re a longtime fan or a curious first-timer, there’s no better way to see it than on the big screen with a cheering crowd of fellow film lovers.
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