Do you want to meet a ghost? June’s second Volunteer Of The Month screening is courtesy of Justin, who has chosen Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s heart-pounding Pulse.
After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another’s computer keeps showing strange, ghostly images. Is their friend trying to contact them from beyond the grave, or is there something much more sinister going on?
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Julia Ducournau’s controversial Palme d’Or body horror extravaganza is coming back for our Father’s Day weekend programming as present Titane from 2021!
A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who’s reunited with his missing son after 10 years.
Unflinching and unforgettable, Titane fuses the visceral with the vulnerable. Ducournau (Raw and the upcoming Alpha) directs with feral intensity, crafting a film that shifts from slasher to surrealist family drama to near-mythic transformation tale all in one.
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Our Technicolor Summer series continues with the Cary Grant-Grace Kelly-Alfred Hitchcock classic To Catch A Thief!
On the sun-drenched French Riviera, retired jewel thief John “The Cat” Robie (Cary Grant) finds his peaceful life interrupted when a string of copycat burglaries threatens to frame him for crimes he didn’t commit. Determined to clear his name, Robie sets out to catch the new thief in action—posing once more as a high-society gentleman among the Riviera’s wealthy elite.
There, he meets Frances Stevens (Grace Kelly), a cool and elegant American heiress who may be more intrigued by Robie’s rumored criminal past than his attempts at innocence. As romance and suspicion intertwine, To Catch a Thief becomes a dazzling game of cat and mouse—full of flirtation, deception, and Hitchcock’s signature suspense.
In the early 1930s, the 3-strip Technicolor process was introduced to audiences, inviting them to experience a world dripping with vibrant saturation for the very first time. The Technicolor Summer series ranges from familiar classics to rarely-screened gems all Summer long!
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Edit: due to the ongoing situation in both Los Angeles and Santa Ana, Freddy Macdonald will no longer be able to join us for the Q&A at this screening. Apologies in advance!
An official selection at SXSW and SITGES, the clever new caper film Sew Torn is making its way to The Frida Cinema for one night only! And make sure to stick around after the screening for a Q&A with writer/director Freddy Macdonald!
A seamstress gets tangled in her own thread after stealing a briefcase from a drug deal gone bad. In an escalating game of cat and mouse, her different choices lead to drastically different outcomes along the way.
In 2021, Freddy Macdonald graduated as the youngest Directing Fellow to ever attend AFI. His AFI thesis film, Shedding Angels, won a Student Academy Award and was shortlisted for a student BAFTA.
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Our A24orror series has earned itself another encore, and this time it’s Halina Reijn’s neon-soaked nightmare party Bodies Bodies Bodies!
In an isolated family mansion, a group of rich 20-somethings decides to play Bodies Bodies Bodies, a game where one of them is secretly a “killer” while the rest tries to “escape”. Things take a turn for the worse when real bodies start turning up, setting off a paranoid and dangerous chain of events.
Starring Rachel Sennott, Chase Sui WOnders, Maria Bakalova, Lee Pace, and Pete Davidson, Bodies Bodies Bodies is an updated take on the spooky haunted house murder mystery genre with plenty of twists and turns thrown in along the way!
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Enter the world of Joel Potrykus’ Vulcanizadora, a twisted exploration of two friends, Marty (Potrykus) and Derek (Joshua Burge), who embark on a disturbing mission in the Michigan woods. What begins as a seemingly straightforward pact unravels into a tense and surreal confrontation with the consequences of their actions.
Premiering at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival, Vulcanizadora has garnered critical acclaim for its unique blend of horror and drama, earning a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes . The film’s striking cinematography and potent storytelling have been highlighted as standout elements, making it a must-see for fans of genre-defying and absurdist cinema.
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We’ve added encore screenings of the Southern Gothic black-and-white masterpiece The Night of the Hunter, one of the most haunting films ever made. The only movie ever directed by actor Charles Laughton, we’re celebrating its 70th birthday this year with a brand new 4K restoration!
Robert Mitchum is unforgettable as Reverend Harry Powell, a preacher with a forked tongue, a switchblade in his pocket, and “LOVE” and “HATE” tattooed across his knuckles. Posing as a man of God, he hunts two children across a dreamlike rural landscape, believing they hold the secret to a hidden fortune. What unfolds is a shadow-drenched tale of survival, spiritual terror, and the strange, luminous resilience of children in a world gone cold.
A box office failure on release, it’s now hailed as one of the most daring American films of the 20th century—an extremely unique vision that has permeated through pop culture until this very day.
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Our In Defense Of…series keeps on trucking, and it’s Jill’s turn again to pick the movie! This time around, she’s chosen Sucker Punch, Zack Snyder’s 2011 fever dream–a mashup of steampunk warfare, dragons, samurai demons, and burlesque surrealism wrapped inside a story of survival and resistance!
Emily Browning stars as Babydoll, a young woman institutionalized against her will who escapes into elaborate dreamscapes to reclaim her power. Joined by a fierce ensemble—including Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, and Oscar Isaac—she battles through layers of metaphor and mayhem, blurring the line between imagination and reality.
Dismissed by many and embraced by some, Sucker Punch has become a true cult artifact over the years and is a perfect entry into this series!
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Mary Harron’s pitch-black adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial novel turns the horror of capitalism into literal bloodsport with American Psycho, the pick for our Page To Screen series this month!
Set in a world of business cards, designer suits, and haute cuisine no one actually eats, American Psycho is as much a razor-wire satire as it is a psychological thriller. Harron directs with icy precision, peeling back the layers of toxic masculinity, status obsession, and moral decay with wit as sharp as an ax to the face.
Stylish, savage, and deeply quotable, this cult classic remains disturbingly relevant and feature’s a star-making performance from legendary actor Christian Bale.
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Celebrate 40 years of Martin Scorsese’s anxiety-dream (nightmare?) New York City classic After Hours, just added for two final encores!
When mild-mannered word processor Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) heads to SoHo for what he thinks is a casual date, he’s thrust into an all-night odyssey of bizarre encounters, escalating misfortunes, and existential dread. From punk clubs to papier-mâché sculptors, sadistic bartenders to vengeful mobsters, every turn deepens the absurdity—and the anxiety.
Shot with kinetic energy and pitch-black wit, After Hours is Scorsese at his most playfully unhinged and possibly most influential onto the aesthetic of some of your favorite new filmmakers!
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