Step into the sun-soaked streets of The Young Girls Of Rochefort, where twin sisters Delphine and Solange (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac) dream of love and adventure beyond their small seaside town.
Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet and a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon owns a music shop, he left Paris one month ago to come back where he fell in love 10 years ago. They are looking for love, looking for each other, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close…
Directed by Jacques Demy, this effervescent musical pays homage to classic Hollywood musicals while infusing them with French flair.
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Our second Volunteer Of The Month pick is Richard Ayoade’s Submarine, courtesy of our volunteer Lyrio!
Meet Oliver Tate: a Welsh teenager armed with a vocabulary beyond his years, a trench coat he barely fills, and a plan to lose his virginity before his birthday. Also on his list? Saving his parents’ crumbling marriage and keeping his mystic next-door neighbor from stealing his mum.
Ayoade’s directorial debut is a funny, melancholic, and stylized coming-of-age tale, drawing from the deadpan charm of Wes Anderson and the aching awkwardness of early adolescence. Featuring a tender original soundtrack by Alex Turner (of Arctic Monkeys), Submarine is both acerbic and sincere—a story about first love, emotional repression, and the anxiety of being a legend in your own mind.
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David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch isn’t just an adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ infamous novel—it’s a hallucinatory biographical fantasia, blending Burroughs’ life, addiction, and text into one grotesque and exhilarating fever dream. And now it’s been restored in a brand new 4K restoration!
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill’s pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work — which he doesn’t remember writing.
Starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, and Roy Scheider—and featuring otherworldly creature effects by Chris Walas (The Fly)—Naked Lunch is Cronenberg at his most cerebral and disturbing.
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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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Agnes Varda’s Le Bonheur is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, and we’re honored to be running it for a few screenings in August!
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse (Claire Drouot), young husband and father François (Jean-Claude Drouot) finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda’s most provocative films, Le Bonheur examines, with a deceptively cheery palette and the spirited strains of Mozart, the ideas of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world.
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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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Join us for a special screening of Keith Gordon’s 1988 drama The Chocolate War, after which the film’s star, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, will be joining us for a post-screening Q&A!
A dark and moody adaptation of Robert Cormier’s controversial 1974 novel, The Chocolate War set in a strict Catholic boys’ school ruled by tradition, manipulation, and silent oppression. When Jerry Renault (Ilan Mitchell-Smith), a new student at Trinity High School, refuses to participate in the school’s annual chocolate sale, he unwittingly challenges the authority of both corrupt Brother Leon (a menacing John Glover), as well as a secret student society known as The Vigils. His defiance sparks a quiet revolution — but also a descent into psychological warfare, where conformity and cruelty are weaponized to devastating effect.
The directorial debut of then-26-year-old actor Keith Gordon, who undoubtedly gained valuable insight from having worked with auteur legends like Bob Fosse (All That Jazz), Brian De Palma (Home Movies and Dressed to Kill), and John Carpenter (Christine), The Chocolate War employs a distinct visual and narrative style to powerfully convey the novel’s unsettling themes of power, rebellion, and the price of individuality. Anchored by stark cinematography by Tom Richmond, and a haunting ’80s soundtrack steeped in yearning and melancholy, The Chocolate War remains a powerful coming-of-age story that dares to ask what happens when standing up means standing alone.
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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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