You may be done with the DVD, but it’s not done with you.
Director Joseph Scrimshaw will be in the house for a Q&A as we present a very special Saturday night screening of his new film Dead Media!
The story of a troubled young woman, her lonely Gen X uncle, a haunted DVD, and a movie night that won’t die.
“Dead Media is an exciting homage to great horror, cult classics, and the bygone era of DVD bonus features.” -Twin Cities Geek
Read MoreÉric Rohmer’s The Green Ray is July 2026’s Members Only screening! The fifth film in the director’s Comedies and Proverbs cycle, the movie captures the ache of summertime sadness with exquisite poignancy, making it a nice offbeat choice for this month.
The Jules Verne novel of the same name provides the loose inspiration for the story of Delphine (Marie Rivière), a dreamy, introverted young secretary who, reeling from a breakup with her boyfriend, faces the prospect of spending her summer vacation alone. As she bounces from Cherbourg to the tourist-choked Alps to the sunny beaches of Biarritz, Delphine passes through a whirl of social activity—but remains profoundly alone, as true human connection continually eludes her.
As honest a portrait of longing for understanding as has ever been committed to film, The Green Ray is one of the most piercingly perceptive works by French cinema’s keenest observer of human relationships.
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Read MoreWe’re getting real glam with the third film in our Broadway Thursdays: Segerstrom Center at The Frida series as we screen Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gasby!
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo Dicaprio). Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby’s nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
Overflowing with lavish production design and a bold modern soundtrack the way only Baz can do, The Great Gatsby embraces spectacle in a way few literary adaptations ever attempt.
Read MoreThe second film in our Broadway Thursdays: Segerstrom Center at The Frida is Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of The Outsiders!
In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy and Johnny, to flee, their struggle for survival and redemption exposes the fragile innocence and enduring bonds of youth on the wrong side of town.
Featuring an astonishing ensemble cast before they became Hollywood legends, including C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise, and Emilio Estevez—The Outsiders remains one of the defining coming-of-age films of the 1980s.
Read MoreVirgilio Villoresi’s hand-crafted and entrancing take on the myth of Orpheus, Orfeo is our new release pick for Art House Theater Day 2026!
Since he was a child, Orpheus has imagined stories about an abandoned villa across the street from his house. A solitary and visionary pianist, during an evening at the Polypus, the club where he plays, he meets Eura’s gaze. An unconditional love blossoms between them, but she’s concealing a secret. Then she disappears. One evening, Orpheus sees her enter a small door on Via Saterna, in front of the villa. He follows her. Before the threshold, he encounters the Green Man, an enigmatic figure who seems to know the mysteries of that passageway. Once through the door, Orpheus enters a visionary afterlife…
Art House Theater Day (AHTD) is an annual program of AHC that brings audiences together to celebrate all that art house theaters, and independent film, contribute to our cultural landscape: ambitious and innovative art that provokes, challenges, entertains, and inspires.
Read MoreCelebrate Art House Theater Day 2026 with a 4K restoration of Car Wash, also celebrating 50 years since its initial release!
This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar’s Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers — including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict, while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.
Fueled by a stacked cast that includes standout comedic turns from Richard Pryor and George Carlin, the film moves to the rhythm of its era’s funk-infused soundtrack and loose, improvisational energy. Light on its feet but rich in character, Car Wash turns an ordinary job into a day-long portrait of exhaustion and unexpected joy.
Art House Theater Day (AHTD) is an annual program of AHC that brings audiences together to celebrate all that art house theaters, and independent film, contribute to our cultural landscape: ambitious and innovative art that provokes, challenges, entertains, and inspires.
Read MoreJoin us for a special Art House Theater Day 2026 screening of Once Upon a Time in a Cinema with a post-screening Q&A with the director of the film, David Gleeson!
Set in a small-town cinema during one eventful Friday night screening from hell, the film follows the travails of beleaguered cinema owner Earl Clancy (Colin Morgan) as he faces a myriad of disasters, any one of which could sink him.
Drawing from writer/director David Gleeson’s own experience growing up in a family of cinema owners where his father’s 78-year career marked the longest in the cinema business in Ireland, if not the world, this film is a love letter to a peculiarly Irish cinema experience, which was as much about connecting with people as it was about the movie.
Art House Theater Day (AHTD) is an annual program of AHC that brings audiences together to celebrate all that art house theaters, and independent film, contribute to our cultural landscape: ambitious and innovative art that provokes, challenges, entertains, and inspires.
Read MoreThe crown jewel in our Art House Theater Day 2026 lineup is a 50th anniversary 4K restoration of Sidney Lumet’s 1976 masterpiece, Network!
When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.
Network feels less like satire and more like prophecy. Director Sidney Lumet and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky crafted a blistering critique of the commodification of outrage that remains startlingly relevant today. Powered by unforgettable performances from Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, and William Holden, the film is as entertaining as it is incisive.
Art House Theater Day (AHTD) is an annual program of AHC that brings audiences together to celebrate all that art house theaters, and independent film, contribute to our cultural landscape: ambitious and innovative art that provokes, challenges, entertains, and inspires.
Read MoreNot all girls want to play with dolls.Not all girls want to play with dolls.
See It On 16mm is back at The Frida with Todd Solondz’s painfully funny coming-of-age comedy-drama Welcome to the Dollhouse.
Seventh-grader Dawn Wiener occupies an unenviable place in the social hierarchy: ignored at home, ridiculed at school, and perpetually caught between childhood and adolescence. As she stumbles through the everyday cruelties of suburban life, Dawn struggles to find connection in a world that seems determined to leave her behind.
A mix of cringe-inducing humor and heartbreaking honesty, Welcome to the Dollhouse captures the awkwardness of adolescence more vividly than almost any film before or since. Writer-director Todd Solondz refuses to sentimentalize growing up, finding comedy in life’s most uncomfortable moments.
Read MoreOC Pride is back at The Frida to present Luca Guadagnino’s sun-drenched Italian Summer coming-of-age film Call Me by Your Name!
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) spends his days in his family’s villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio’s father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.
With its lush landscapes, unforgettable performances, and achingly human sense of time slipping away, Call Me by Your Name captures the exhilaration and heartbreak of first love with extraordinary sensitivity. Guadagnino crafts a world so vivid that audiences can practically feel the Summer heat.
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