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The Frida Cinema
Orange County's Year-Round Film Festival
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Coming to The Frida next Friday, January 28th! Acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar returns with PARALLEL MOTHERS, a powerful new drama starring Academy Award-winner Penélope Cruz. Showtimes and tickets at http://thefridacinema.org. “A ravishingly crafted work that again illustrates with ineffable beauty that no one uses the expressive power of color and design quite like Almodóvar.” - Hollywood Reporter
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TOMORROW, Thursday January 20th! Join us as we kick off CLASSICS ON FRENCH STREET - a new program featuring FREE outdoor screenings of family-friendly classics, presented right around the corner from The Frida on French Street - with THE WIZARD OF OZ! Screenings are free and open to the public, thanks to the generous partnership of City of Santa Ana and Community Engagement @ce_org, and will happen the 3rd Thursday of every month through June! Capacity is limited — RSVP on our event page at http://thefridacinema.org!
2 days ago
Take a trip with us this Friday night as we kick off the return of DRIVE-IN DINE OUT nights at Tustin’s @messhallmarketoc, with Alejandro Jodorowsky’s legendary psychedelic cult classic EL TOPO! If you couldn’t make it out to Joshua Tree when we screened it there in August 2020, now’s your chance! 🎟Tickets available at thefridacinema.org! 🎥🚗
3 days ago
We’re back on January 28th with Michael Mann’s 1995 crime classic HEAT, screening at 12pm, 4pm, & 7:45pm! Additional screenings through Monday January 31st - visit thefridacinema.org for full schedule and advance tickets!
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Join us January 28th & 29th as we kick off CAGE MATCH with The Rock (1996) and The Wicker Man (2006)! Cage Match is a no-holds-barred movie tournament featuring 16 films from “The Patron Saint of The Frida Cinema” himself, the one-and-only Nicolas Cage. Every month, we will pair up two Cage classics against each other, and whichever film sells more tickets will move on to the next round. There will be a round of sweet sixteen, elite eight, final four, and then the Cage Match championship! May the most Cagey movie win! We’ll post up the full bracket soon!
4 days ago
This Thursday night in Downtown Santa Ana! Join us for the first of our CLASSICS ON FRENCH STREET events, featuring FREE outdoor screenings of family-friendly classics, presented right around the corner from The Frida on French Street! Screenings are free and open to the public, thanks to the generous partnership of City of Santa Ana and Community Engagement @ce_org, and will happen the 3rd Thursday of every month through June! Capacity is limited — RSVP on our event page at http://thefridacinema.org!
5 days ago
The Frida’s DRIVE-IN | DINE OUT is back! We’re thrilled to be returning to Tustin’s @messhallmarketoc to bring you great nights of art house and cult favorites, plus great bites from Mess Hall Market’s family of restaurants, all enjoyed from the comfort of your car! We’re kicking it off next weekend with two psychedelic classics from one of our favorite filmmakers, Alejandro Jodorowsky — EL TOPO (Friday, January 21) and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (Saturday, January 22)! Tickets available now at thefridacinema.org! 🎥 🚗
6 days ago
In consideration of the incredible strain that our local OC hospitals are enduring due to Omicron, we have made the difficult decision to temporarily close our doors. By all accounts current numbers should be decreasing over the next two weeks, so we look forward to reopening on Friday, January 28th.
We will be hosting several outdoor events over the next two weeks, including a FREE outdoor screening of The Wizard of Oz next Thursday January 20th (with major gratitude to the City of Santa Ana and Community Engagement @ce_org for their support!), and our #DriveIns return to @messhallmarketoc next Friday! Visit http://thefridacinema.org for updates, schedule and tickets, and more! Please stay safe out there. 🎥❤️
1 week ago
Our final screening of THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH is tonight at 8pm!
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TONIGHT! Flocker Flicks 21+ Movie Night powered by @tropicannasa and our friends @oldpal , @madebykiva and @clsics.official presents DAZED AND CONFUSED at The Frida!
Where: @thefridacinema in Downtown Santa Ana
21+ Screening - bring ID! Show your ticket purchase at Tropicanna from 1/8 - 1/13 show to pickup a Goodie Bag! Tickets still available at http://thefridacinema.org.
1 week ago
FILM TRIVIA — TONIGHT! We’ve got seven teams signed up for Movie Trivia Night tonight, Tuesday January 11th! These cinephiles are so confident they know movies better than you do — are you and your friends cine-savvy enough to prove them wrong? Sign up at thefridacinema.org/trivia! Doors open at 7:30PM, and the games will begin shortly after! 🎥 🧠
2 weeks ago
Opening this Friday — Academy Award winner Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman) returns with A HERO. Winner of the Grand Prix award at the Cannes Film Festival, is “a superb morality play that immerses us deeply in a society’s values and rituals, and keeps us guessing right up to its powerful final shot” (Time Out). Info, showtimes and tickets available at http://thefridacinema.org.
2 weeks ago
Just a few more chances to catch Sean Baker’s new award-winner RED ROCKET at The Frida! Catch it today, Wednesday, and Thursday at 5:30pm! Tickets and info at https://thefridacinema.org/event/red-rocket.
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“Thief is the best crime movie since Chinatown. Period. And it's better.” Bold words, Michael Ventura of L.A. Weekly! Agree or disagree, there’s no denying that Michael Mann’s 1981 thriller THIEF marked one of cinema’s most exciting and boldly stylish directorial debuts. Catch it today and this week at The Frida as our Michael Mannuary series continues!
2 weeks ago
This Thursday at 8:30pm! Tropicanna Nights at The Frida, presented by Santa Ana’s @thetropicannalifestyle, kicks off their 2022 series with 1993’s DAZED AND CONFUSED! 21+ event. Tickets available at thefridacinema.org!
2 weeks ago
We ❤️ it when our fans reach out to us to let us know they appreciate our programming and work, and every once in a we get a message that seriously make us blush with a distinct sense of accomplishment and pride. 🥰Cheers to @likenothing for letting us know just how important The Frida is to her, and for taking us over our $1,000 Instagram fundraising goal! Cheers to everyone who’s supported our campaign! 🎥❤️🙏🏼
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