Enzian Theater

Christmas in Connecticut
2025-12-10 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
80th Anniversary! Screening as part of the Enzian Holiday Series!
Join us for a cozy holiday matinee with this delightful romantic comedy starring Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity).
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones (Dennis Morgan) grows familiar with the “Diary of a Housewife” column written by Elizabeth Lane (Stanwyck). Jeff’s nurse arranges with Elizabeth’s publisher, Alexander Yardley (Sydney Greenstreet, Casablanca), for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth’s bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Yardley hastens to arrange a publicity ploy by setting up single, nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.
Packed with charm, witty banter, and festive cheer, this classic delivers vintage Hollywood romance wrapped up with festive ribbons and bows.

Daisies (4k Restoration)
2025-12-13 11:00 - 13:00
4K Restoration!
Dive into the magic of cinema with the Enzian Film Club! Join us for an enriching experience where film enthusiasts and novices alike can explore classic films in a new light. Each session features a short presentation by esteemed professors from local colleges, followed by collaborative discussions that bring fresh insights and foster a deeper appreciation for the art of filmmaking. Part of our Saturday Matinee Classics series, the Enzian Film Club is your gateway to understanding and enjoying timeless cinematic masterpieces in a vibrant, community-focused setting.
Featuring an Enzian Film Club discussion on “Experimental Cinema” with Nicole Richter, PhD from Rollins College!
If the entire world is bad, why shouldn’t we be? Adopting this insolent attitude as their guiding philosophy, a pair of hedonistic young women (Ivana Karbanová and Jitka Cerhová), both named Marie, embark on a gleefully debauched odyssey of gluttony, giddy destruction, and antipatriarchal resistance, in which nothing is safe from their nihilistic pursuit of pleasure. But what happens when the fun is over?
Matching her anarchic message with an equally radical aesthetic, director Věra Chytilová, with the close collaboration of cinematographer Jaroslav Kučera, unleashes an optical storm of fluctuating film stocks, kaleidoscopic montages, cartoonish stopmotion cutouts, and surreal costumes designed by Ester Krumbachová, who also cowrote the script. The result is Daisies, the most defiant provocation of the Czechoslovak New Wave, an exuberant call to rebellion and widely considered one of the great works of feminist cinema.

Linda Linda Linda (4k Restoration)
2025-12-15 21:30 - 23:30
Come early for live music at Eden Bar from 6:30–9:30pm!
4k Restoration! 25th Anniversary!
For Kei, Kyoko, and Nozomi, their dream of playing the final high school concert together is dashed when their lead vocalist quits the band. Desperate, they recruit the very first person they see: Korean exchange student Son, played by Doona Bae (THE HOST, BROKER), whose comprehension of Japanese is limited at best. It’s a race against time as the group struggles to learn three songs in three days for the festival’s rock concert.
LINDA LINDA LINDA is an effervescent, tenderhearted snapshot of youth about the unparalleled joy of jamming out with your friends. The soundtrack fuses bangers from iconic Japanese bands The Blue Hearts and Base Ball Bear with original music composed by James Iha of the Smashing Pumpkins. The beloved classic from Nobuhiro Yamashita (GHOST CAT ANZU) is acknowledged by many as one of the greatest Japanese films of the 21st century. In celebration of its 20th anniversary, the utterly charming and timeless classic returns with an all-new 4K restoration.

White Christmas
2025-12-17 15:00 - 17:00
Screening as part of the Enzian Holiday Series!
Celebrate the season with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen in the timeless VistaVision musical White Christmas. Filled with dazzling song-and-dance numbers, lavish sets, and the warmth of Irving Berlin’s beloved music, it’s a joyful big-screen tradition that captures the magic and nostalgia of the holidays like no other.
Singers Bob Wallace (Crosby) and Phil Davis (Kaye) join sister act Betty (Clooney) and Judy Haynes (Vera-Ellen) to perform a Christmas show in rural Vermont. There, they run into Gen. Waverly (Dean Jagger, Twelve O’Clock High), the boys’ commander in World War II, who, they learn, is having financial difficulties. His quaint country inn is failing, so what’s the foursome to do but plan a yuletide miracle: a fun-filled musical extravaganza that’s sure to put Waverly and his business in the black!

Black Christmas (1974)
2025-12-17 20:00 - 22:00
Screening as part of the Enzian Holiday Series!
Free movies on the Enzian lawn!
Wednesday Night Pitcher Shows are FREE and open to the public. Keep an eye on our Facebook for information about rescheduled shows due to weather. Free overflow parking is available at Park Maitland School and Peach Valley across the street. Outside food & beverage is not permitted.
Want a reserved spot on the lawn with a bucket of beer and popcorn for your besties? We have a limited number of exclusive picnic baskets for sale! Grab one fast before they sell out.
Black Christmas:
4K Restoration
Holiday movies are sentimental and uplifting, but surprisingly devoid of knife murders. BLACK CHRISTMAS—one of the most influential Hitchcockian slashers of all time—is here to help.
When sorority sisters Olivia Hussey (Romeo and Juliet, Stephen King’s It), Margot Kidder (Superman), and Andrea Martin (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) find themselves under attack from a foul-mouthed killer, it’s up to police chief John Saxon (A Nightmare on Elm Street) to even the odds. But what about Keir Dullea (2001: A Space Odyssey), the brooding art-school pianist? Could he have something to do with the mutilation rampage?
Black Christmas is a terrifying and demented holiday tradition that gets everything right. We’d expect nothing less from Bob Clark, the pioneering director of A Christmas Story.

Un Chien Andalou (with Live Score)
2025-12-18 18:00 - 20:00
All free La CinOMAthéque screenings will take place in the Truist Auditorium at the Orlando Museum of Art.
ACCESS FOR ALL AT OMA presents:
La CinOMAthéque: A collaboration between OMA and Enzian, with generous support provided by the Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.
The Orlando Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the launch of La CinOMAthéque in partnership with the Enzian Theater, as part of its “Access for All at OMA,” an all-new program offering FREE admission to the museum!
Access for All at OMA is a monthly free day dedicated to the community. La CinOMAthéque will be a series of 6 bimonthly free screenings of experimental, avant-garde, art films in the Truist auditorium at OMA on Access for All day.
Each screening will be introduced by a UCF film professor and include a talkback with OMA Chief Curator Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon and Enzian Programming Manager Tim Anderson.

Un Chien Andalou:
Featuring a live Score by Tinnitus Rex!
A barrage of striking and irrational images, designed to provoke, are presented in a disjointed chronology, jumping from the initial “once upon a time” to “eight years later” without the events or characters changing, evoking a dream logic as its narrative flow.
Luis Buñuel’s legendary first film, Un Chien Andalou written with Salvador Dalí, created a scandal at its premiere and its startling eye-slicing opening sequence has continued to shock viewers ever since. Despite Buñuel and Dalí’s energetic rejections of any rational meaning in the film, Un Chien Andalou is an exploration of desire and the obstacles in the path of instinctual passion, equally indebted to Surrealism and Freud and represents the first film in what is now considered the golden age of the avant-garde.

Rare Exports
2025-12-20 12:00 - 14:00
An Enzian Holiday Tradition! Screening as part of the Enzian Holiday Series!
It’s the eve of Christmas in northern Finland, and an ‘archeological’ dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn’t the one you want coming to town. When the local children begin mysteriously disappearing, young Pietari and his father Rauno, a reindeer hunter by trade, capture the mythological being and attempt to sell Santa to the misguided leader of the multinational corporation sponsoring the dig. Santa’s elves, however, will stop at nothing to free their fearless leader from captivity. What ensues is a wildly humorous nightmare – a fantastically bizarre polemic on modern day morality.

It's A Wonderful Life
2025-12-21 11:00 - 14:00
Screening as part of the Enzian Holiday Series!
Frank Capra’s paean to small-town values and the ordinary guy who does the right thing is a classic story of redemption and second chances, with James Stewart as a man who’s come to the end of his rope one Christmas Eve and Donna Reed as the high-school sweetheart who became his wife. The supporting cast includes Lionel Barrymore, Beulah Bondi, Ward Bond and Gloria Grahame.
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE was the first release from Liberty Films, the pioneering independent label founded by Capra and fellow producer-directors William Wyler and George Stevens and went on to become not just a perennial holiday favorite, but one of the most beloved of all American movies.
After George Bailey (James Stewart) wishes he had never been born, an angel (Henry Travers) is sent to earth to make George’s wish come true. George starts to realize how many lives he has changed and impacted, and how they would be different if he was never there.

The Apartment
2025-12-27 11:00 - 14:00
New 4K Restoration! 65th Anniversary! Screening as part of the Enzian Holiday Series!
Jack Lemmon stars as C.C. “Bud” Baxter, an ambitious insurance clerk who lends his Manhattan apartment to company executives for their extramarital escapades. When he falls for elevator operator Fran Kubelik (the original manic pixie dream girl Shirley MacLaine), he finds himself caught between career and conscience.
A sharp blend of wit and romance, The Apartment marked the third collaboration between Lemmon and writer-director Billy Wilder, following Some Like It Hot. The film swept the 1961 Academy Awards®, winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and earning Lemmon’s third Oscar nomination for his poignant performance. More than six decades later, The Apartment remains a benchmark of sophisticated comedy and a testament to Lemmon’s rare ability to balance humor with heartbreaking sincerity—proof that few stars ever embody the human spirit on screen quite like Jack Lemmon.
Celebrating 100 Years of Jack Lemmon:
One of Hollywood’s most beloved and versatile actors, Jack Lemmon was born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1925. Over seven decades, his career moved effortlessly between comedy and drama in iconic films as diverse as Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses, The Odd Couple and Glengarry Glen Ross. A two-time Academy Award winner (Mister Roberts and Save the Tiger) and eight-time nominee, Lemmon embodied the “everyman” with charm, wit, and vulnerability, setting a standard that influenced generations of performers. From his collaborations with Billy Wilder to his enduring partnership with Walter Matthau (10 films), Lemmon’s warmth and humanity continues to resonate across film history and popular culture a century after his birth.

The Wizard of Oz
2025-12-28 12:00 - 14:00
Free for Kids 12 & Under!
When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy (Judy Garland) and her dog, Toto, are whisked away in their house to the magical land of Oz. They follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, and en route they meet a Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) that needs a brain, a Tin Man (Jack Haley) missing a heart, and a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) who wants courage. The wizard (Frank Morgan, The Shop Around the Corner) asks the group to bring him the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) to earn his help.

Batman Returns
2025-12-30 21:30 - 23:30
35mm Screening! Screening as part of the Enzian Holiday Series!
Tim Burton’s darkly stylish sequel blends comic book spectacle with gothic fairytale, cementing Burton’s singular vision of Gotham City. The film reunited Michael Keaton as the brooding Bruce Wayne/Batman, while introducing two of the franchise’s most memorable villains: Danny DeVito as Oswald Cobblepot, a grotesque yet tragic incarnation of The Penguin, and Michelle Pfeiffer as Selina Kyle/Catwoman, whose feline alter ego became one of the most iconic antiheroines in film history.
Amid Gotham’s snowy, neon-lit Christmas, Batman faces chaos as The Penguin’s circus gang terrorizes the city and corrupt tycoon Max Shreck (Christopher Walken) schemes to drain its energy. After Shreck’s secretary Selina Kyle is reborn as Catwoman, the trios intertwined destinies collide in a tragic showdown of betrayal, desire, and destruction.
Upon release, Batman Returns was notable for its strikingly dark tone and twisted holiday imagery—where Christmas cheer is subverted into a nightmare of consumerism, corruption, and fractured identities. Though controversial for its violence and mature themes (leading to a backlash from parents’ groups and toy companies), the film has since earned a reputation as a bold, gothic outlier in the history of superhero movies.

2025 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour
2026-01-05 18:30 - 20:30
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a dynamic showcase of seven standout short films from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, including two Festival Award–winning titles. A 100-minute program curated for theatrical audiences, the tour is a special opportunity to discover a collection of fiction, nonfiction, and animated shorts, and offers an eclectic mix of storytelling that highlights bold voices and fresh perspectives.
The Festival’s Short Film Program has long been established as a place to discover talented directors, such as past alumni Andrea Arnold, Lake Bell, Damien Chazelle, Destin Daniel Cretton, Jay and Mark Duplass, Debra Granik, Rashaad Ernesto Green, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Todd Haynes, Sterlin Harjo, Don Hertzfeldt, Sky Hopinka, Shaka King, Lynne Ramsay, Dee Rees, Joey Soloway, Taika Waititi, and many others.
2025 Sundance Film Festival Shorts Program:

Azi / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Montana Mann, Producer: Steven Snyder) — During a weekend vacation with her best friend’s family, 17-year-old Azi gets caught up in an unexpected game with another guest. Cast: Dior Negeen Goodjohn, Breeda Wool, Emma Filley, Dan Thiel. Fiction.
Debaters / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Alex Heller, Producers: Angie Gaffney, Brittani Ward, Amy E. Powell) — In a debate chamber, affluent high schoolers argue a bill on minimum wage in an effort to impress two working-class adult judges. Cast: Sripadh Puligilla, J. Smith-Cameron, Kenneth Lonergan, Bernadette Santos Schwegel. Fiction.
Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites / Cambodia, France (Director and Screenwriter: Chheangkea, Producers: Daniel Mattes, Karen Madar) — During her chaotic family’s Qingming visit, dead Grandma Nai sneaks away from her peaceful afterlife after overhearing that her Queer grandson is about to get engaged to a woman. Cast: Bonrotanak Rith, Saroeun Nay, Sokun Theary Ty, Phalla Im, Chansophorn Buth, Ponleu Chab. Fiction. 2025 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction.
Hurikán / Czech Republic (Director and Screenwriter: Jan Saska, Screenwriter: Václav Hašek, Producers: Kamila Dohnalová, Martin Vandas, Alena Vandasová) — Hurikán rushes to save his favorite beer stand from closure by fetching a new keg to impress the bartender he has a crush on. In a wild Prague district, he faces robbers, cops, and his own thirst. Cast: Johana Matoušková, Patrik Velek. Animation.
Such Good Friends / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Bri Klaproth, Screenwriter and Producer: Jon Walkup, Producer: Rachel Rambaldi) — After ending a toxic friendship, a people pleaser finds herself falling into old patterns with her former best friend’s family. Cast: Mindy Sterling, Niamh O’Neill Culhane, Jared Lo Nigro, Rachel Rambaldi. Fiction.
SUSANA / Mexico, U.S.A. (Directors, Screenwriters, and Producers: Gerardo Coello Escalante, Amandine Thomas, Producers: Mariana Tames, Fernanda Preciado, Hannah Swayze) — A middle-aged American tourist finds herself alone in Mexico City. When she encounters a group of young Americans, she jumps at the opportunity for a little adventure. Cast: Bonnie Hellman, Christine Spang, Parth Shah, Keenan MacWilliam, Andrea Raggio, Richard Laite. Fiction.
We Were The Scenery / U.S.A. (Director: Christopher Radcliff, Producers: Cathy Linh Che, Jess X. Snow) — In 1975, Hoa Thi Le and Hue Nguyen Che fled from Vietnam by boat and docked in the Philippines, where they were utilized as background extras during the filming of Apocalypse Now. Nonfiction. Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction.
