Join us this July for a three-film tribute to the late great Ray Liotta!
Join us this July for Lynch Month, cataloging the beautifully weird movies of David Lynch!
Join HorrorBuzz for their Horror Movie Nights series, featuring some of the most memorable entries in horror cinema!
Join us for Arthouse 101, a multi-month introduction to the world of arthouse cinema!
Join us this June for Pride Month 2022, a series of five films exploring LGBTQ identity and themes!
Join us this June for The Cinematic Experience, an epic series of movies that are best seen on the big screen!
Have this article read to you, listen to it like a podcast This July, 2022, The Frida Cinema is proud to present a ten-film retrospective …
Splatter horror legend Lloyd Kaufman joins us in person again two nights in a row for Divide & Conquer and Shakespeare’s Sh-tstorm!
Join Film Threat and the Frida Cinema for a fundraiser supporting independent theaters! Film Threat’s Award This! is an event with a mission — to …
Construction for the OC Streetcar is underway, with a closure of 4th Street expected in the months ahead. Please note — the city’s parking structure (behind The Frida Cinema) is still accessible off 5th Street!
Join us this May for Cinema Essentials 2022, featuring acclaimed films representing different Oscar categories!
Join us every last weekend in 2022 for CAGE MATCH, a no-holds-barred movie tournament that will bring you sixteen films starring Nicolas Cage!
Frida Content Editor Reggie Peralta analyzes five films directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune.
Frida writing team member Josh Green shares his impressions of Lana and Lilly Wachowski’s Bound prior to seeing it at The Frida next week.
Frida writing team member Josh Green analyzes John Williams’ score and use of diegetic music for Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Frida writing team member Justina Bonilla interviews film historian David J. Skal on the occasion of his 70th birthday about Universal Pictures’ Frankenstein.
Frida Content Editor Reggie Peralta interviews June’s volunteer of the month Max Ney about his pick Gojira as well as his time at The Frida.
Frida writing team member Anthony McKelroy analyzes the neon-soaked realism and kinetic rush of Josh and Benny Safdie’s Good Time.
When you set out to do the impossible, it helps to find a source for inspiration…
Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954), the legendary Mexican painter and central figure in revolutionary Mexican politics and twentieth-century art, is renowned for her magnificent body of surreal, symbolic, and deeply personal art. What is less known about Kahlo is the incredible saga of integrity and perseverance inherent to her life’s story. In 1925, at the age of eighteen, Kahlo was involved in a tragic streetcar accident where she suffered multiple fractures to her spine, foot, and pelvic bones, spending the rest of her life struggling against severe pain and disability.
Where for some this would have been enough to lose oneself to despair, Kahlo turned to art to communicate her physical suffering, as well as her passions for Mexican politics and for the love of her life, Diego Rivera, whom she married in 1929. A consummate creator until her death at 47, Kahlo’s inspiring resoluteness and individualism has led to her becoming a leading icon for both the LGBT and feminist movements, as well as for the greater conversation of self-expression through art.
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