David Lynch’s 2001 masterwork Mulholland Drive is returning to The Frida for a limited four day run as part of our 21st Century Cult series! And for our 7PM screening on Sunday, November 2nd, we are delighted to be joined in-person for a post-screening Q&A with actor Richard Green, who portrays “The Magician” in the film.
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
Mystifying and terrifying audiences for over twenty years, Mulholland Drive remains one of the greatest films ever made in any genre and in any decade. Lynch’s stranglehold on his one-of-a-kind tone puts him into the rarified air of the true masters of the medium. Seeing it on the big screen with an audience is a holy grail of modern cinema-going experiences.
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Join us for a very special screening of the new anthology indie film Sunfish (& Other Stories On Green Lake) and stick around for a post-screening Q&A with the film’s writer and director Sierra Falconer, as well as producer Grant Ellison!
As a single summer unfolds around Green Lake, the lives of its residents and visitors intertwine in moments of change and self-discovery. A girl bonds with her grandparents through sailing and birding, a boy battles for first chair at a prestigious arts camp, a fisherman and a young mother are an odd pair in pursuit of adventure and the perfect catch, and two sisters savor their final days running a bed-and-breakfast before college pulls them apart.
Wistful, nostalgic, and rich with a sense of place, Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) invites us into a unique community united by a fleeting season. First-time feature writer and director Sierra Falconer has crafted an elegant collection of interconnected tales —a tender ode to an idyllic, yet imperfect, corner of Northern Michigan.
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Join SAHARA (South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency) for a screening of Designed by Preeti: When the Old Life No Longer Fits, a powerful story about one woman’s journey from abuse to empowerment. This inspiring film sheds light on resilience, healing, and the strength it takes to rebuild life with courage and hope.
Seats are limited – donate today to secure your spot here and stand with survivors on their journey to empowerment.
This event is presented by SAHARA, serving survivors of abuse with compassion and community support.
SAHARA serves survivors of all forms of abuse within the South Asian community in Southern California with culturally sensitive and linguistically specific services.
At SAHARA, we firmly believe that every human being regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, deserves to live a life of dignity and respect.
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Join us at The Frida Cinema for a very special evening featuring Gregg Araki’s 2004 indie classic Mysterious Skin followed immediately by a block of Experimental Gay short films called He Never Dies: The Short Films Of Kalil Haddad.
First up, Araki’s haunting masterpiece follows a boy named Neil (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, in a fearless early performance) as he escapes into a world of risky encounters and self-destructive bravado, while Brian (Brady Corbet) struggles with repressed memories that manifest as blackouts and visions of alien abduction. As their stories move inexorably toward each other, the truth that binds them threatens to shatter everything they thought they knew about themselves.
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Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It’s fun to be a vampire.
A bloodsucker blast of style and sass, Joel Schumacher’s cult classic The Lost Boys has joined our Halloween week lineup!
In the sleepy town of Santa Carla, brothers Michael and Sam (Jason Patric and Corey Haim) discover the boardwalk nightlife hides more than just roller coasters and neon thrills. Enter a gang of leather-clad, motorcycle-riding vampires led by the magnetic David (Kiefer Sutherland), and suddenly it’s bloodsucking, comic book wisdom, and holy water squirt guns galore.
Dripping with MTV swagger, a killer soundtrack (INXS! Echo & the Bunnymen!), and unforgettable performances from the “two Coreys,” The Lost Boys redefined the teen vampire movie as a sexy, funny, and stylish rollercoaster of horror and humor.
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Our Page To Screen series is digging its way to the beloved teen classic Holes!
Nothing is as it seems at Camp Green Lake, where unlucky teen Stanley Yelnats (Shia LaBeouf in his breakout role) is sentenced to endless days of digging holes in the blazing sun. But beneath the desert dirt lies a buried mystery — a story that winds through generations of curses, outlaws, and lost treasure. With the help of his fellow campers (including scene-stealer Khleo Thomas as Zero), Stanley may just uncover more than anyone bargained for.
Based on Louis Sachar’s award-winning novel, Holes is a rare teen film that balances humor, heart, and adventure while staying true to its literary roots. Featuring a stellar cast of Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Tim Blake Nelson, and Patricia Arquette, it’s an endlessly rewatchable tale of friendship.
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The Frida Cinema is excited to partner with the Production Designers Collective a very special screening of Spike Jonze’s 2002 masterwork Adaptation! And make sure to stick around after the screening for a very special Q&A with the film’s Production Designer–K.K. Barrett (Her, Marie Antoinette).
Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt “The Orchid Thief,” by Susan Orlean, Kaufman’s life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean’s book, become strangely intertwined as each one’s search for passion collides with the others’.
A modern classic of postmodern cinema, Adaptation fuses Jonze’s inventive direction with Kaufman’s whip-smart script and self-referential chaos.
This event will be an official part of International Production Design Week.
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We’re very excited to announce that Rialto Pictures is rolling out their brand new 4K restoration of Adrian Lyne’s Jacob’s Ladder for a limited run at The Frida Cinema on October 20th-23rd!
Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins), a Vietnam War veteran plagued with troubling hallucinations and traumatic flashbacks, struggles to maintain his sanity as his terrible past invades his waking life. As girlfriend Jezzie (Elizabeth Peña) and chiropractor friend Louis (Danny Aiello) try to help him find balance, Jacob only descends further into madness and despair.
This restoration was completed by ROUNDABOUT – USA from the original negative scanned and restored in 4K. The color grading and restoration was supervised by Adrian Lyne. This project was brought to you by STUDIOCANAL and supervised by Delphine Roussel and Jean-Pierre Boiget.
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To pass this final exam, you’ll have to survive your classmates! Deemed too controversial for release in 2000, Battle Royale is celebrating its 25th anniversary with three nights of screenings at The Frida! And as an added bonus, stick around for a 10 minute pre-recorded interview with the screenwriter–Director Kinji Fukasaku’s son Kenta–sharing an intimate look at the forces that shaped his father and how they inspired his final film.
In an alternate near-future Japan, the government has passed the Battle Royale Act, a brutal law designed to control unruly youth. Each year, one randomly chosen middle-school class is taken to a remote island, armed with weapons, and forced to fight to the death until only one student remains.
A savage satire on youth, control, and violence that still hits harder than ever, don’t miss your chance to catch it on the big screen, in 4K for the first time, starting October 13th! Get your tickets now!
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Wake up, Donnie…
Happy Halloween! Donnie Darko, one of the definitive Frida Cinema fan favorites, is finally returning to our screens for the first time in almost two years!
Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a troubled teenager in 1988 Virginia, plagued by visions and sleepwalking episodes. One night, a bizarre accident nearly kills him when a jet engine crashes into his bedroom. Surviving only because he wandered outside, Donnie begins seeing a terrifying figure: a man in a grotesque rabbit suit named Frank, who tells him the world will end in 28 days.
Before Stranger Things combined science fiction, Spielberg-ian thrills, and 1980s nostalgia to much acclaim, Richard Kelly set the high-water mark with Initially beset with distribution problems, it would slowly find its audience and emerge as arguably the first cult classic of the new millennium.
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