The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi, directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, is celebrating its 25th anniversary at The Frida with a brand new 4K restoration via our friends at Janus Films!
The story follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-age father NJ’s tentative flirtations with an old flame or precocious young son Yang-Yang’s attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera, the filmmaker deftly imbues every gorgeous frame with a compassionate clarity.
Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century.
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Banned in Francisco Franco’s Spain and denounced by the Vatican upon its premiere, Luis Buñuel’s irreverent Virdiana is coming to The Frida Cinema in a brand new 4K restoration!
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, Viridiana is as audacious today as ever.
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As we continue to honor the extraordinary legacy of Rob Reiner, we get to the film that reshaped modern romantic comedy and set the gold standard for everything that followed: When Harry Met Sally….
Sex always gets in the way of friendships between men and women. At least, that’s what Harry Burns believes. So when Harry meets Sally Albright and a deep friendship blossoms between them, Harry’s determined not to let his attraction to Sally destroy it. But when a night of weakness ends in a morning of panic, can the pair avoid succumbing to Harry’s fears by remaining friends and admitting they just might be the perfect match for each other?
Released in 1989 and still unmatched, When Harry Met Sally… remains a masterclass in how to tell a love story. It’s a movie about two people growing up together without realizing they’re growing toward each other, guided by Reiner’s warm, observant direction and Nora Ephron’s flawless screenplay.
Few filmmakers moved so effortlessly between genres as Rob Reiner. From coming-of-age classics to sharp-edged comedy to pulse-pounding thrillers, his filmography is a tour of American movie magic. All tickets to the Remembering Ron Reiner are all discounted to $9.
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When you’re three years old, you see everything and understand nothing.
Join us for some matinee screenings of the Golden Globe nominated animated film Little Amélie or the Character of Rain!
The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery to Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ignites her wild sense of curiosity. As she develops a deep attachment to her family’s housekeeper, Nishio-san, Amélie discovers the wonders of nature as well as the emotional truths hidden beneath the surface of her family’s idyllic life as foreigners in post-war Japan.
This film will be presented dubbed in English for all screenings.
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Step into the windswept moors and shadowed corridors of director Cary Joji Fukunaga’s 2011 adaptation of Jane Eyre, part of January’s programming thanks to our Volunteer Of The Month, Sirena!
Mia Wasikowska stars as Jane, the fiercely principled young governess whose quiet strength and sharp intelligence set her apart in a world determined to keep her small. When she arrives at Thornfield Hall, she encounters the brooding, enigmatic Mr. Rochester (Michael Fassbender), and their unlikely connection ignites one of literature’s most enduring romances.
Full of mystery and longing, Fukunaga’s adaptation was praised upon its release for its suitably bleak atmosphere and magnetic performances. Come see it on the big screen!
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Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho, who has gifted us such films as Aquarius (NYFF54) and Bacurau (NYFF57), returns with the thrillingly unpredictable The Secret Agent.
A dynamic, shape-shifting epic set in Mendonça’s hometown of Recife during the late 1970s, The Secret Agent won Best Director award at Cannes. Wagner Moura was also deservedly honored as Best Actor at the festival for his magnetic performance as a widowed former university researcher whose life has been violently upended by the greed and vengeance of a government bureaucrat.
On the run and living under an alias during the country’s military dictatorship, he tries to escape, while also reconnecting with the young son he had to leave behind. Even this brief description cannot fully prepare the viewer for the zigzagging subplots and delights of Mendonça’s eccentric and affectionate ode to the movies and the Brazil of his youth—and to maintaining individuality amid abuses of power.
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From director Kaouther Ben Hania comes The Voice Of Hind Rajab, a powerful new docudrama based on real events that is one of the most talked-about films of the 2025–26 festival and awards season.
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A five-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.
The film premiered in competition at the 2025 Venice Film Festival and received a record-breaking standing ovation, one of the longest in festival history.
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Todd Haynes’ masterful paranoid thriller Safe is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a brand new 4K restoration via our friends at Sony Picture Classics!
The story follows Carol White (played brilliantly by Julianne Moore), a quiet, upper-middle-class homemaker in 1987 Los Angeles whose life is upended by a series of mysterious physical ailments: coughing fits, nosebleeds, panic attacks, and debilitating weakness. As doctors fail to diagnose her condition, Carol becomes convinced she suffers from “environmental illness,” a sensitivity to everyday chemicals in modern life.
Safe is bold, it’s darkly funny, and above everything else, it’s a totally original drama that only Todd Haynes could make.
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There’s no better way to open our 2026 cinematic calendar than with Cinema Paradiso, Giuseppe Tornatore’s timeless ode to moviegoing and childhood.
Set in a small Sicilian town after World War II, Cinema Paradiso follows young Toto, a mischievous dreamer whose life is forever changed when he befriends Alfredo, the kindly projectionist at the local cinema. Through reels of adventure and heartbreak flickering across the screen, Toto discovers not just the power of movies, but the power they have to shape a life.
Since its release in 1988, Cinema Paradiso has earned a reputation as one of the most beloved films about going to the movies ever made. Its unique blend of humor and heartache have made it a staple at The Frida over the years, all brought together beautifully by the incredible score by the maestro himself, Ennio Morricone.
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Kick off your cinematic New Year with the highly-anticipated third film from visionary director Bi Gan: Resurrection.
In a world where humans have forsaken dreams in exchange for immortality, a dreaming monster (Jackson Yee) embarks on a shape-shifting odyssey through illusion, beauty, and terror that takes him across the twentieth century and to the end of time.
Unfolding in five dazzlingly imagined chapters that encompass everything from silent-cinema expressionism to film noir to a delirious vampire love story shot in one of Bi’s signature long takes, Resurrection is a work of breathtaking imagination in which cinema is the ultimate portal to the unconscious mind.
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