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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Agnes Varda’s Le Bonheur is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, and we’re honored to be running it for a few screenings in August!
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse (Claire Drouot), young husband and father François (Jean-Claude Drouot) finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda’s most provocative films, Le Bonheur examines, with a deceptively cheery palette and the spirited strains of Mozart, the ideas of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world.
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Join us Tuesday, May 20th for as we close our 2025 Science on Screen® series with writer Charlie Kaufman and director Michel Gondry’s 2004 Oscar-winning sci-fi masterpiece Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. This special screening will be proceeded by a special presentation by Dr. Sandra Langeslag, who will be joining us to take a fascinating dive into the science of memory and heartbreak with her presentation “The Neuroscience Behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.”
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Film Movement Classics is bringing a brand new 4K restoration of Masayuki’s Suo 1996 charmer Shall We Dance? to The Frida Cinema!
Shohei Sugiyama (Koji Yakusho) seems to have it all – a high-paying job as an accountant, a beautiful home, a caring wife and a doting daughter he loves
dearly. However, he feels something is missing in his life. One day while commuting on the train he spots a beautiful woman staring wistfully out a
window and eventually decides to find her. His search leads him head-first into the world of competitive ballroom dancing.
A box office sensation in North America upon its initial release (which led to a Hollywood remake with Richard Gere), Film Movement Classics is presenting the original 137-minute film, available uncut for the first time in North America.
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One role. Two twins. A thousand iconic moments. Lindsay Lohan’s star-making double debut The Parent Trap is finally coming to The Frida Cinema!
Identical twins Annie and Hallie, separated at birth and each raised by one of their biological parents, discover each other for the first time at Summer Camp and make a plan to bring their wayward parents back together.
The Parent Trap into a generation-defining family film. Whether you grew up quoting the handshake, dreaming of Napa Valley, or wondering how one actress could pull all that off, this movie owns a piece of your childhood. Directed with charm and sparkle by Nancy Meyers, this endlessly rewatchable reimagining of the 1961 Disney classic features a delightful supporting cast: Natasha Richardson, Dennis Quaid, and Elaine Hendrix as the perfectly wicked Meredith Blake—a villain so stylish, we all kinda rooted for her?
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Licorice Pizza closes out our Paul Thomas Anderson retrospective at The Frida—young, wild, and stumbling into love.
The year is 1973. The streets of the San Fernando Valley are paved with shag carpet, gas lines, and impossible dreams. And in the middle of it all: Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman), child actor and hustle king, and Alana Kane (Alana Haim), adrift and electric, unsure of what she wants—except, maybe, everything.
Licorice Pizza is PTA at his loosest and most lovingly chaotic—a meandering and utterly sincere coming-of-age epic that captures the awkwardness of growing up and falling in love. With a supporting cast that includes Bradley Cooper as a deranged Jon Peters, Benny Safdie as a local politician, and every storefront in The Valley as a supporting character, the film is a mixtape of growing up in Southern California.
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Come see Paul Thomas Anderson’s elegant masterpiece, Phantom Thread, as it was meant to be seen: on the big screen!
Set in the haute-couture world of 1950s London and wrapped in lace and poisonous glances, Phantom Thread is a love story—though maybe not the kind you bring home to mother. Daniel Day-Lewis (always brilliant) is Reynolds Woodcock, a genius dressmaker obsessed with beauty, routine, and control. Enter Alma (Vicky Krieps), a quiet waitress who upends his world—not with chaos, but with her own willpower, as graceful and unrelenting as his.
What begins as muse and artist becomes something far more unsettling—a power struggle played out through fashion, food, and the sharp edge of devotion. Jonny Greenwood’s lush, aching score swells like a secret, and Anderson’s camera moves like hands through fabric.
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Back by popular demand, Punch-Drunk Love—Paul Thomas Anderson’s strangest, sweetest, and most unexpectedly explosive film, is back at The Frida Cinema for one night only. Starring Adam Sandler in the performance of his career, this isn’t just a love story—it’s a pressure cooker disguised as a rom-com, wrapped in harmonium chords and shimmering blue light.
Sandler is Barry Egan, a painfully lonely novelty toilet plunger salesman with seven sisters, a hair-trigger temper, and a secret stash of pudding cups he’s collecting to hack a frequent flyer program. Enter Lena (Emily Watson), and suddenly, Barry’s life teeters from implosion to unlikely redemption—while being chased by phone sex scammers and Philip Seymour Hoffman at full “shut up shut up shut up” intensity.
Punch-Drunk Love is PTA at his most deceptively small, strangely romantic, and vibrantly unhinged.
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Celebrate 25 years of Wong Kar Wai’s In The Mood For Love with a brand new 4K restoration and a post-screening nine minute short film entitled In The Mood For Love 2001.
In The Mood For Love: Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man Yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching musical soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping Bing, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past 25 years of cinema.
In The Mood For Love 2001: Initially conceived as one third of a triptych about food, In the Mood for Love was expanded into a stand-alone feature that won immediate recognition as a modern-day classic. Another third—intended as the “dessert,” as Wong Kar Wai has put it—was, until now, only screened during his masterclass at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Now available in wide release for the first time, In the Mood for Love 2001 demonstrates the director’s masterful ability to generate palpable atmosphere and striking characterizations on a miniature canvas—with In the Mood for Love stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung Man Yuk once again providing the sizzling chemistry— evoking the mystery of transient, unexpected connections in the modern city through his inimitable romantic touch.
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Celebrate the birthday of visionary director Jean Cocteau as we present a special run of Beauty and the Beast!
Born July 5th, 1889, Jean Cocteau was a poet, painter, playwright, and filmmaker whose imagination knew no borders—and no film better captures his singular vision than La Belle et la Bête (1946), a masterpiece of surreal romanticism that turns a fairy tale into living myth.
Starring Josette Day as the gentle, radiant Belle and the great Jean Marais as the tortured, leonine Beast, Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast is a marvel of shadow, texture, and cinematic illusion. Made just after WWII on a shoestring budget and with raw ingenuity, the film conjures real magic without special effects. This isn’t Disney–it’s real cinema magic.
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