November’s Hallucinations screening is Isao Fujisawa’s lost wonder Bye Bye Love!
Lost and nihilistic drifter Utamaro chances upon Giko, a femme shoplifter who immediately catches his eye. One thing leads to another: the couple soon find themselves on the lam for murder. This provides for a delightful pretext to explore notions of societal malaise, free love and gender fluidity in a rapidly evolving 1970s Japan, as both Utamaro and Giko begin to know each other on the road by way of a variety of surrealistic, psychedelic and frank sexual encounters.
Hosted by Polygon’s editor-in-chief Chris Plante, Hallucinations is a monthly event that spotlights movies that challenge our expectations of story, style, and “good taste”. We invite guests to bond over films that change what we expect from the medium, the world, and themselves. So come early, stay late, make friends, and watch something strange, surprising, or just shamelessly sick.
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As if! It’s been 30 years since Cher Horowitz first schooled us in the art of high school survival—and we’re celebrating it in style: with a special screening of the 1995 classic plus a bonus double feature of Amy Heckerling and Alicia Silverstone’s Vamps from 2012! And as a bonus bonus, Griffin Newman (“Griffin” on the Blank Check Podcast and “Watto” on The George Lucas Talk Show) will be in the house to introduce BOTH films!
Amy Heckerling’s Clueless remains the ultimate ’90s teen comedy: sharp, stylish, and endlessly quotable. Follow Cher, Dionne, and the gang through Beverly Hills’ hallways and malls as they navigate friendship, fashion, and, of course, the quest to find the perfect date.
Vamps is about two bloodsucking party girls (Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter) find their destinies at stake when one falls for the son of a vampire hunter and the other encounters a long-ago love.
One ticket gets you access to both films and there will be a 15 minute intermission between them. Don’t miss this pairing on the big screen with a rowdy crowd!
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Celebrate Silent Film Day with our friends at Flickrhappy as they present a 100th anniversary screening of The Freshman! And as an added bonus, Suzanne Lloyd, granddaughter of silent comedy legend Harold Lloyd, will be joining us in-person to introduce the film and share rare insights into her grandfather’s life and legacy! Adding even more to the magic, renowned silent film composer and pianist Cliff Retallick will provide live musical accompaniment.
Harold Lloyd’s biggest box office hit and still one of the most beloved comedies of the silent era, The Freshman follows Harold Lloyd as an eager college freshman who dreams of being a big man on campus, though his careful plans inevitably go hilariously awry. But he gets a climactic chance to prove his mettle and impress the sweet girl he loves in one of the most famous sports sequences ever filmed.
Don’t miss this chance to experience and celebrate the 100th anniversary of a silent film masterpiece the way it was meant to be seen: on the big screen, with live music!
This program is a venue rental engagement. Member discounts and Frida Cinema comp passes not valid. The views and opinions expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of The Frida Cinema or its staff.
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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 the sun-soaked streets of The Young Girls Of Rochefort, where twin sisters Delphine and Solange (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac) dream of love and adventure beyond their small seaside town.
Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet and a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon owns a music shop, he left Paris one month ago to come back where he fell in love 10 years ago. They are looking for love, looking for each other, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close…
Directed by Jacques Demy, this effervescent musical pays homage to classic Hollywood musicals while infusing them with French flair.
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As if! It’s been 30 years since Cher Horowitz first schooled us in the art of high school survival—and we’re celebrating it in style.
Amy Heckerling’s Clueless remains the ultimate ’90s teen comedy: sharp, stylish, and endlessly quotable. Follow Cher, Dionne, and the gang through Beverly Hills’ hallways and malls as they navigate friendship, fashion, and, of course, the quest to find the perfect date.
Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school’s pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was — and falls for him.
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Our second Volunteer Of The Month pick is Richard Ayoade’s Submarine, courtesy of our volunteer Lyrio!
Meet Oliver Tate: a Welsh teenager armed with a vocabulary beyond his years, a trench coat he barely fills, and a plan to lose his virginity before his birthday. Also on his list? Saving his parents’ crumbling marriage and keeping his mystic next-door neighbor from stealing his mum.
Ayoade’s directorial debut is a funny, melancholic, and stylized coming-of-age tale, drawing from the deadpan charm of Wes Anderson and the aching awkwardness of early adolescence. Featuring a tender original soundtrack by Alex Turner (of Arctic Monkeys), Submarine is both acerbic and sincere—a story about first love, emotional repression, and the anxiety of being a legend in your own mind.
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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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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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