The Frida Cinema
@thefridacinema
Orange County’s only nonprofit arthouse cinema and year-round film festival! 🎬🍿📽️ Movies, art, community & culture since 2014! DONATE:
Catch a very groovy, young Olivia Newton John in the far-out, trippy 1970 musical fantasy TOOMORROW, screening on July 21st in a gorgeous new 4K restoration as part of our Hallucinations series 🛸 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/toomo...
We kick off on July 31-Aug 1 with his unhinged classic TOTALLY F***ED UP, his long-awaited return to the big screen I WANT YOUR SEX on Aug 6-13, a new 4K restoration of THE DOOM GENERATION on Aug 14-15, and his delirious fever dream NOWHERE on Aug 21-22 ⚡️
Experience the anarchic stylings of legendary queer filmmaker Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy alongside his provocative new feature I WANT YOUR SEX in a cheeky retrospective we are calling I Want Your Teen Apocalypse ⛓️ 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/film-series/...
In a Venn Diagram of 1993 at the movies, there’s the box office smash of Jurassic Park on one end and the Palm d’Or winning The Piano at the other. In the middle was Sam Neill. Now there is a void. Farewell, sir.
Spielberg Summer keeps rolling on July 31-Aug 2 with RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, the film that introduced audiences to one of cinema’s greatest heroes: Indiana Jones! 🐍 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/raide...
Get your pies ready, because the final film in our Natalie Wood retrospective is the oft-requested THE GREAT RACE, which paired her with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis for an affectionate throwback to silent-era spectacle and early Hollywood farce! July 18-20 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/the-g...
In remembrance of filmmaker and artist Marjane Satrapi, we are now screening a week of her 2007 animated masterpiece PERSEPOLIS through July 16th 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/perse...
Arrive at 7:30PM for a short, pre-screening presentation on the making of the film by our Marketing Director Bekah 🍎
Our Classic Movie Nights series is stepping into the courtroom on July 22 for a battle of the sexes with the sparkling romantic comedy ADAM'S RIB, starring the incomparable Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy! 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/adams...
TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME is coming back to The Frida Cinema on July 23-26, playing between seasons two and three of our Twin Peaks: The Complete Series saga! Make sure to stick around afterwards for Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces! ❤️🔥 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/twin-...
Our second Volunteer of the Month pick for July comes via Avalon, who has chosen chosen the hallucinatory body-horror classic VIDEODROME from visionary filmmaker and certified sicko, David Cronenberg! July 17-18 📺️ 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/video...
You better hang on tight, spider monkeys, because The Frida Cinema is finally headed back to Forks, Washington for our 5th annual screening of The Complete TWILIGHT Saga on August 8th 🍝 See all 5 films back-to-back with merch, trivia, photo ops, and more! 🧛🏻♂️ 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/the-c...
Join The Frida Cinema for a very special Trivia Night: Tournament of Champions! This month is an ultimate trivia competition where individuals and teams compete against prior Trivia Night champions! RSVP: secure.qgiv.com/event/trivia...
One of the most controversial independent films of the 1990s, the feature debut of Mary Harron (American Psycho), I SHOT ANDY WARHOL is finally back in circulation! July 10-16🗞️ 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/i-sho...
There is still time 🩷🤍🩵 I SAW THE TV GLOW is back at The Frida, July 10-11 in anticipation of the upcoming release of Jane Schoenbrun’s follow-up, Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma which will open at The Frida on 8/21 📺️ 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/i-saw...
See It On 16mm is back at The Frida on July 29th with a 16mm print of Todd Solondz’s painfully funny coming-of-age comedy-drama WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE🪆 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/welco...
Does the new Minions movie have your kids hootin’ & hollerin’ for more classic Cinema? Our inaugural Art House for Families series is still going strong all summer long! FREE Wed. afternoon screenings & $10 screenings on Wed. evenings/Sun. afternoons! 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/film-series/...
Our documentary pick for our Art House for Families series is Al Reinert’s thrilling portrait of the 24 men who went to the moon, FOR ALL MANKIND! July 8th & July 12th 🌝 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/for-a...
Join us in August for the return of our Broadway Thursdays: Segerstrom Center at The Frida series, showcasing films that inspired upcoming stage adaptations at OC’s @segerstromarts.bsky.social 🎭️ 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/film-series/...
🎉ENCORES ADDED🎉 We're puttin' on the ritz for YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, the scariest comedy of all time, which is coming to The Frida Cinema in newly added encores today, June 30th and July 2nd to celebrate the incomparable Mel Brooks’ 100th birthday! 🧠 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/young...
If you’re coming out for Trivia or a movie tonight, be advised that traffic could be a little heavy on account of World Cup watch parties!
The final film in our Natalie Wood retrospective is the oft-requested THE GREAT RACE! An affectionate throwback to silent-era spectacle and early Hollywood farce that paired her with the iconic duo of Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis! 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/the-g...
Our Spielberg Summer series is kicking off exactly where you’d think: with July 4th weekend screenings of his industry-changing, pop culture-shifting, era-defining masterpiece, JAWS! July 3-7 🦈 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/jaws/
Spend Fourth of July weekend at The Frida Cinema with DICK, the 1999 teen comedy send up of the Watergate scandal starring Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams! July 3 & 4🇺🇸 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/dick/
🚨 JULY 2026 CALENDAR 🚨 What will you be watching this month? See it all at The Frida: thefridacinema.org/coming-soon/