This screening is open to Film Club Members only.
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Student Film Club Members are invited to a very special back to school screening of La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher’s sun-drenched Italian adventure genre-masher!
La Chimera follows Arthur (Josh O’Connor), a disheveled British archaeologist recently released from prison, as he drifts back into the orbit of a ragtag band of tombaroli—tomb raiders who plunder ancient Etruscan ruins in search of artifacts to sell on the black market. Haunted by visions of his lost love and the ghosts of a vanished world, Arthur embarks on a journey that blurs the lines between past and present, myth and memory.
Infused with Rohrwacher’s signature blend of earthy magic realism, La Chimera is an excavation of the soul and an absolute can’t-miss on the big screen with your fellow Student Film Club members!
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Directed and co-written by acclaimed actress Noémie Merlant (Portrait of a Lady on Fire), The Balconettes is her audacious second feature. Co-scripted with Céline Sciamma, it melds comedy, horror, thriller in a genre-smashing good time!
The story is set in a heat wave that brings a Marseille neighborhood to the boil, where three roommates gleefully meddle in the lives of their neighbors from their balcony. Until a late night drink turns into a bloody affair…
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Greenwhich Entertainment’s newest release, Went Up The Hill, is coming to The Frida Cinema!
In this chilling ghost story, a recently deceased woman haunts her estranged son Jack (Dacre Montgomery of Stranger Things) and her grieving widow Jill (Vicky Krieps of Phantom Thread and Corsage). When the woman’s spirit inhabits the survivors, the living must grapple with the destruction she left behind while fighting for their own survival.
Went Up The Hill debuted earlier this year at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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FanMail Cinema Club is invading The Frida for the first time as they are presenting a very special screening of the 2004 animated classic Shrek 2, featuring themed mini-cakes by Keelys Cake Studio, face painting by La Rainbow Fiesta, merch and photo ops by FanMail Cinema Club, a cosplay contest, and so much more!
Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona’s mother and father, the Queen and King. But not everyone is happily ever after. Shrek and the King find it difficult to get along, and there’s tension in the marriage. The Fairy Godmother discovers that Fiona has married Shrek instead of her son Prince Charming and plots to destroy their marriage.
Don’t miss this laugh riot on the big screen with a rowdy crowd full of Shrek fans! Doors open at 7:00PM and the movie will start at 8:15PM sharp!
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The bold, genre-defying horror-Mermaid-musical mashup The Lure is August’s Frida Cinema Members Only screening!
In this playful and confident debut of Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska — a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters are drawn ashore in an alternate ’80s Poland to explore the wonders and temptations of life on land. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly aura make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit fantasy world of Smoczynska’s imagining. In a visceral twist on Hans Christian Andersen’s original Little Mermaid tale, one sister falls for a human, and as the bonds of sisterhood are tested, the lines between love and survival get blurred. A savage coming-of-age fairytale with a catchy new-wave soundtrack, lavishly grimy sets, and outrageous musical numbers, The Lure explores its themes of sexuality, exploitation, and the compromises of adulthood with energy and originality.
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Step into a world of fairy tale fun, adventure, and a little bit of enchantment with Ella Enchanted, now part of our 21st Century Cult series!
This beloved 2004 fantasy film, starring Anne Hathaway as the spirited Ella, tells the story of a young woman cursed with the “gift” of obedience — a challenge she must overcome to claim her own destiny.
Packed with humor, heart, and plenty of whimsical moments, Ella Enchanted is a perfect movie for anyone who loves a fresh twist on classic fairy tales. Whether you’re revisiting the film or discovering it for the first time, join us for an evening of laughter, magic, and inspiration.
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You’re not supposed to understand it. You’re supposed to feel it. Our Hallucinations series is taking a trip into the Funky Forest, ya’ll!
Welcome to Funky Forest, where plot is optional, logic is irrelevant, and the only rule is: the weirder, the better. A cult favorite of Japan’s experimental film scene, Funky Forest is a sprawling, head-scratching sketch anthology that careens between deadpan comedy, body horror, cosmic nonsense, musical interludes, and pure dream logic. With dozens of characters—like the Guitar Brothers, a dancing colon, and a mysterious alien transmission—it’s a film that feels beamed in from another dimension.
Part Monty Python, part Eraserhead, part pure chaos—it’s not a movie you watch so much as survive.
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Our Page To Screen series is opening up the storybook that never gets old–Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride!
This is the rare film that truly has something for everyone: part fairy tale, part swashbuckling adventure, part romantic comedy, and all heart. Adapted by William Goldman from his own novel, it follows the epic love story of Westley and Buttercup, spun by a grandfather (Peter Falk) reading to his skeptical grandson (Fred Savage). Along the way? Duels, deception, miracle pills, and some of the most quotable dialogue ever put to screen.
Whether it’s your first time or your fiftieth, The Princess Bride is a timeless story of love, laughter, and one very determined man in black.
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A twisted reimagining of a beloved fairytale that has emerged as one of the most buzzed-about horror films of 2025, The Ugly Stepsister comes to The Frida for two late night screenings!
Writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt’s visceral, aesthetically-sumptuous gothic body‑horror presents the Cinderella story as experienced through the eyes of her overlooked stepsister. Set in a decaying 18th‑century kingdom of “Swedlandia,” The Ugly Stepsister centers on awkward, bookish Elvira (a sensational Lea Myren, making her feature-film debut), whose ambitious mother Rebekka (Ane Dahl Torp) forces her into brutal cosmetic procedures and deadly beauty rituals, none of which will be spoiled here, all in a desperate bid to win Prince Julian’s affection over her radiant stepsister Agnes (Thea Sofie Loch Næss). It’s not all blood and gore, however; drawing from the darker undertones of the original Grimm tale, as well as her own struggles with body image, Blichfeldt masterfully employs symbolism, and Myren’s intense and fully-committed performance, to craft a film that stirs empathy just as powerfully as it unsettles.
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“Monsters are gathering. The Earth may not survive.” The Frida Cinema is teaming up with our friends at Creature Bazaar to bring you Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster! And make sure to get there early for a book signing with authors Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski and their new book Godzilla: The First 70 Years: The Official Illustrated History Of The Japanese Productions!
Released in 1964 and still crackling with cosmic weirdness, this fourth installment in the Showa-era Godzilla series doesn’t just raise the stakes—it tears a hole in the sky and sends a golden dragon through it. Enter: King Ghidorah—a planet-destroying, three-headed space hydra who crashes to Earth in a meteor and promptly starts leveling cities.
The only hope? An uneasy alliance between Earth’s three reigning monsters: the once-terrifying Godzilla, the majestic Mothra, and the elusive Rodan. Together, they’ll grumble, fight, and eventually team up in a monster mash for the ages!
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