The Hustler isn’t what he used to be. But he has the next best thing. A kid who is.
The Color of Money, Martin Scorsese’s electrifying sequel to The Hustler, is coming back to The Frida Cinema in a brand new 4K restoration to celebrate its 40th anniversary!
Paul Newman (who won his long-awaited Oscar for this film) returns as “Fast” Eddie Felson, now a veteran pool player who spots raw talent in cocky young hustler Vincent, played by Tom Cruise, and decides to take him under his wing.
Boasting Scorsese’s kinetic direction and one of the coolest soundtracks of the ’80s, The Color of Money is a swaggering portrait of mentorship and the thrill of the game.
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A world-famous orchestra conductor discovers the brother he never knew he had: a school cafeteria worker who plays trombone in a local marching band. Detecting his brother’s exceptional musical talent, he takes it upon himself to rectify the injustice of fate. This is The Marching Band, coming to The Frida Cinema starting on September 11th, 2026.
The film premiered at Cannes Film Festival and became a French box office sensation. Starring Benjamin Lavernhe (My Donkey, My Lover & I) and Pierre Lottin (The Stranger), the film is an equally dramatic and comedic crowd-pleaser!
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A family on the verge of a breakdown.
Little Miss Sunshine, one of the biggest breakout indie hits of all time, is coming back to The Frida Cinema in a brand new 4K restoration!
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Featuring the all-star cast of Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, Paul Dano, and Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine is the kind of movie that makes you laugh until your sides hurt, then quietly punches you right in the heart. Don’t miss it back on the big screen for its 20th anniversary!
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Ngozi Onwurah’s radically ahead-of-its-time Afrofuturist vision Welcome II The Terrordome made history as the first theatrically distributed British feature directed by a Black woman, and thirty years later, it’s coming back to the big screen in a brand new 4K restoration thanks to Janus Films.
Largely dismissed upon its release by critics unable to see the urgency in its evocation of a gritty dystopia in which Black people have been relegated to living in a slum called the Terrordome, where simmering racial tension threatens to boil over in the wake of a young boy’s death.
Onwurah’s fusion of political commentary and genre spectacle looks extremely prescient now, and her ability to build an entire cosmology that connects the history of slavery to present-day police brutality is nothing less than visionary.
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Our four film retrospective on the films of Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr kicks off with a new restoration of his 2001 masterpiece Werckmeister Harmonies.
One of the major achievements of twenty-first-century cinema thus far, this mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by the celebrated writer and frequent Tarr collaborator László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown era in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus, complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince, arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens, which builds inexorably toward violence and destruction.
In thirty-nine of his signature long takes, engraved in ghostly black and white, Tarr conjures an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.
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Cinematic Void is returning to The Frida Cinema to present Sofia Coppola’s haunting feature debut, The Virgin Suicides!
When the five beautiful Lisbon sisters are raised under the watchful eye of their strict, overprotective parents, their mysterious lives become an object of fascination for the neighborhood boys. But after the youngest sister takes her own life, the family retreats further from the outside world, leaving the boys to piece together the tragedy unfolding behind the walls of the Lisbon home.
Adapted from Jeffrey Eugenides’ acclaimed novel, The Virgin Suicides announced Coppola as a singular cinematic voice. Beneath its dreamy surface lies a deeply unsettling film about the impossibility of ever truly understanding someone else. 25 years later, it continues to entrance viewers worldwide.
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Our Classic Movie Nights series is closes out the year with the beloved Ernst Lubitsch romantic classic The Shop Around the Corner!
Alfred Kralik and Klara Novak are co-workers at a small leather goods shop in Budapest who can barely stand each other. What neither knows is that they have secretly fallen in love as anonymous pen pals, pouring their hearts out in letters to one another. As their relationship blossoms on paper, their prickly day-to-day rivalry becomes increasingly complicated by the realization that love may be hiding in the most unexpected place.
Starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan, The Shop Around the Corner is one of Hollywood’s most enduring romantic comedies, balancing Lubitsch’s signature wit and sophistication with genuine warmth and tenderness. Its clever mistaken-identity premise and beautifully drawn characters have made it a lasting classic.
Please make sure to get to this showtime early, as our beloved Marketing Director, Bekah, will be doing a pre-screening presentation on the film!
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Released in 1982 to near-instant cult status, Slava Tsukerman’s Liquid Sky is a surreal collision of new wave, fashion, drugs, and extraterrestrial weirdness, and easily one of the strangest movies to emerge from New York’s downtown scene. Anne Carlisle stars as both Margaret and Jimmy, a pair of androgynous club kids whose chaotic lives are upended when a tiny alien spacecraft lands on the roof of their apartment building. Leaving a trail of increasingly bizarre encounters in its wake, as well as a few dead bodies, the alien has come to Earth in search of a mysterious substance produced during human sexual activity. Shot on the streets and in the clubs of early-’80s Manhattan, and on an extremely low budget estimated at approximately $500,000, Liquid Sky nevertheless exudes a look and attitude that feel remarkably ahead of their time.
Released during the height of the early-’80s New York new wave scene, Liquid Sky has become a cult touchstone for anyone interested in the intersection of underground cinema, electronic music, NY fashion, and queer nightlife. The soundtrack to Liquid Sky is as strange and distinctive as the movie itself. Composer Brenda I. Hutchinson and director Slava Tsukerman built the score around primitive synthesizers, electronic textures, and the sounds of New York’s downtown club scene, creating something that feels less like a conventional movie score than music beamed in from another planet. A slight cheat in our Unsung 80’s Soundtracks series in the sense that Liquid Sky’s sounds are more of a score, its entirely synthetic soundtrack, mirroring the film’s icy visual palette and alienated characters, felt like an essential for the era.
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Plunging into the 1970s Berlin underground, this unforgettable portrait stands as one of the most harrowing films ever made about drug addiction. Based on the true story of Christiane Felscherinow, whose shocking memoir made her the face of a generation of troubled German youth, this bracing dramatization follows the alienated thirteen-year-old Christiane (Natja Brunckhorst) as she goes from popping pills to shooting heroin amid West Berlin’s infamous club scene. An instant cult sensation on account of its authentically grimy location shooting and electrifying soundtrack by David Bowie, Christiane F. (original title: Christiane F.: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo) remains a haunting vision of a young life in free fall.
As part of our Unsung 80’s Soundtracks series, we will be presenting Janus Films’ new 4K digital restoration, approved by director Uli Edel, featuring a new 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. The soundtrack album is essentially a David Bowie compilation created around the film, rather than a conventional original film score. Bowie also recorded the German-language version of “Heroes,” “Helden,” specifically for the German market/film connection. Bowie also appears as himself in concert footage, and his music is deeply woven into the film’s atmosphere and Christiane’s obsession with him.
This film contains mature themes and intense subject matter that may be triggering for some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Frida Cinema Film Club members are invited to a very special 4K restoration of Jacques Deray’s La Piscine!
Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) and Marianne (Romy Schneider) indulge in their passion for each other while borrowing a friend’s luxurious villa in the south of France. When the friend (Maurice Ronet) and his daughter (Jane Birkin) arrive unexpectedly, rivalries and insecurities surface and events take a sinister turn.
“Sex, sun, and suspicion. A star-powered psychological thriller.” –Time Out
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