Enzian Theater

North by Northwest
2022-11-12 11:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York)
This screening will feature a presentation by Christine Madrid French on her book The Architecture of Suspense: Alfred Hitchcock’s Buildings
This classic suspense film finds New York City ad executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) pursued by ruthless spy Phillip Vandamm (James Mason) after Thornhill is mistaken for a government agent. Hunted relentlessly by Vandamm’s associates, the harried Thornhill ends up on a cross-country journey, meeting the beautiful and mysterious Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint) along the way. Soon Vandamm’s henchmen close in on Thornhill, resulting in a number of iconic action sequences.

Meet Me In The Bathroom
2022-11-21
An immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000s, featuring never-before-seen footage of artists like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Strokes, Interpol and LCD Soundsystem. Set against the backdrop of 9/11, the film tells the story of how a new generation kick started a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world. Inspired by the book by Lizzy Goodman.

Straight Line Crazy
2022-11-26
National Theatre Live is the National Theatre’s groundbreaking project to broadcast the best of British theatre from the London stage to cinemas around the world.
Ralph Fiennes (Harry Potter, Kingsman) plays New York master manipulator Robert Moses, in this
blazing new play from David Hare (Skylight). For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses exploited those in office through a mix of charm and intimidation. Motivated at first by a determination to improve the lives of New York City’s workers, he created parks, bridges and 627 miles of expressway to connect the people to the great outdoors. Faced with resistance by protest groups campaigning for a very different idea of what the city should become, will the weakness of democracy be exposed in the face of his charismatic conviction?
Nicholas Hytner directs this exhilarating new play, broadcast live from the Bridge Theatre

Purchase a Season Pass to attend all National Theatre Live performances and receive discounted admission, as well as a complimentary glass of house wine at each show!

Members that are Contributor level or above and Season Passholders are able to make a table reservation for this series. Reservations can only be made after a ticket or Season Pass has been purchased and are limited. Please make sure to have your confirmation number ready to provide to the box officer at time of your reservation.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks
2022-11-27
FREE for kids 12 & under!
During the Battle of Britain, Miss Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury), a cunning witch-in-training, decides to use her supernatural powers to defeat the Nazi menace. She sets out to accomplish this task with the aid of three inventive children who have been evacuated from the London Blitz. Joined by Emelius Brown (David Tomlinson), the head of Miss Price’s witchcraft training correspondence school, the crew uses an enchanted bed to travel into a fantasy land and foil encroaching German troops.

Velvet Goldmine
2022-11-29
Glam rock star Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys Myers) plays a character on stage named Maxwell Demon who predicts his death on stage. Shortly after he announces his prediction, he fakes his own death and is exposed as a fraud. A decade later in 1984, a reporter and former fan, Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale), tracks down the former rocker to do an article on his life and downfall. Arthur interviews the man who discovered Slade and a peer (Ewan McGregor) to understand Slade’s motivations.

Particle Fever
2022-12-03
Celebrate the recent launch of the Large Hadron Collider’s historic third run with a screening of Particle Fever! Joining us at the theater is Dr Philip Chang, previous member of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) team and ATLAS Collaboration at the CERN LHC, who will discuss his experience investigating the electroweak and the Higgs sector of the Standard Model (SM), as well as developing a novel charged-particle track finding algorithm to address the challenges of exponentially increasing computing resource usage at the LHC.
Imagine being able to watch as Edison turned on the first light bulb, or as Franklin received his first jolt of electricity.
For the first time, a film gives audiences a front row seat to a significant and inspiring scientific breakthrough as it happens. Particle Fever follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start-up of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the planet, pushing the edge of human innovation.
As they seek to unravel the mysteries of the universe, 10,000 scientists from over 100 countries joined forces in pursuit of a single goal: to recreateconditions that existed just moments after the Big Bang and find the Higgs boson, potentially explaining the origin of all matter. But our heroes confront an even bigger challenge: have we reached our limit in understanding why we exist?
Directed by Mark Levinson, a physicist turned filmmaker, from the inspiration and initiative of producer David Kaplan and masterfully edited by Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Godfather trilogy), Particle Fever is a celebration of discovery, revealing the very human stories behind this epic machine.
About the speaker: Dr. Philip Chang is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics at University of Florida. After receiving his PhD at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, he started his postdoctoral fellow position at UC San Diego as a member of Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) team at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of CERN in Geneva. In the past, Chang had also been a member of ATLAS Collaboration at the CERN LHC. Chang’s primary focus is on the investigation of the electroweak and the Higgs sector of the Standard Model (SM) through studying production of multiple massive particles. Chang has also been developing a novel charged-particle track finding algorithm to address the challenges of exponentially increasing computing resource usage at the LHC, leveraging industry advancements in heterogeneous computing and artificial intelligence techniques.

The Polar Express
2022-12-04
Join us at Enzian for our kid-friendly December matinee screening of The Polar Express. Children will receive a goodie bag including a letter writing kit to craft their wish list for Santa, coloring pages and candy canes. A special menu including cookies and hot cocoa will be available in-theater. On the way out of the movie, kids will drop their letters in Santa’s mailbox! If you’d like to take a photo with the family, stop by our holiday-themed photo backdrop!
Event Timeline:
Sunday, December 4, 2022
Doors open at 11:15 AM
Film starts at 12 NOON

Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis (“Forrest Gump”; “Cast Away”) reunite for “Polar Express,” an inspiring adventure based on the beloved children’s book by Chris Van Allsburg.
On Christmas Eve, a young boy embarks on a magical adventure to the North Pole on the Polar Express, while learning about friendship, bravery, and the spirit of Christmas. This journey of self-discovery shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.

The Shining: Forwards and Backwards
2022-12-09
Immortalized in Rodney Asher’s documentary ROOM 237, THE SHINING: FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS is a masterwork of experimental video manipulation. John Fell Ryan and Akiva Saunders’ hallucinatory palindromic love letter to Kubrick’s finely tuned symmetric compositions. Created in 2011, Ryan explained “we put the US DVD version into Final Cut, removed all corporate logos and leaders at the beginning, and cut all credits at the end. The entire film image sequence was then copied, reversed, and superimposed over the original forwards version.” What results is a mesmerizing acid trip experience of uncanny coincidences (or perhaps like the ‘satanic panic’ of the 1980s, secret hidden messages when played in reverse) wherein the images and themes contained in Kubrick’s film are at times contradictory and complimentary to the story being told. In short, this is THE SHINING as you have never seen it (or dreamed it) before. Join us on this rare journey into the literal and figurative fracturing of cinematic sanity and get ready to get freaky!

Gremlins 2: The New Batch
2022-12-13
The magical collectibles store that Gizmo calls home has just been destroyed, and the tiny monster finds his way into a newly erected skyscraper. Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan) and his bride-to-be, Kate (Phoebe Cates), who have previously dealt with Gremlins run amok, discover that Gizmo and an impish legion of reptilian pals are inhabiting the downtown building. The couple tries to stop the creatures from escaping into New York City, but this new batch of beasts might be uncontrollable.

Neil Young: Harvest Time - 12/19 Encore!
2022-12-19
Created between January and September 1971, this docu-film takes us on an intimate journey to Young’s farm in Northern California for the ‘Harvest Barn’ sessions, to London for an iconic performance with the London Symphony Orchestra and to Nashville where the then 20 something Neil Young worked on various tracks of this signature album. The feature is a fan piece that has never been seen before. Performance and rehearsal content is intertwined into creative storytelling and includes most of the tracks from album Harvest (released in 1972) including “Heart of Gold”, “A Man Needs A Maid”, “Alabama” and “Old Man”.
In addition to the film, this screening event includes an introduction by Neil Young, recorded exclusively for movie theatre audiences. Hear Neil highlight the significance of Harvest, 50 years after its release, and how the recording of the album and the movie came together.

Goodfellas
2022-12-27
The lowly, blue-collar side of New York’s Italian mafia is explored in this crime biopic of wiseguy Henry Hill. As he makes his way from strapping young petty criminal, to big-time thief, to middle-aged cocaine addict and dealer, the film explores in detail the rules and traditions of organized crime. Watching the rise and fall of Hill and his two counterparts, the slick jack-of-all-trades criminal Jimmy Conway and the brutish, intimidating Tommy DeVito, this true story realistically explores the core, blue-collar part of the mob. Based on the book “Wiseguy” by Nicholas Pileggi.

The Killer Robots! Robotica Destructiva
2023-01-06
WORLD PREMIERE!
A trio of android warrior sisters are awakened from a 10,000 year sleep to do battle with a series of mechanized warlords and other assorted killer robots.
Orlando’s The Killer Robots! is an intergalactic multimedia project that is equal parts GWAR, Kiss, Alice Cooper, bizzarro comic books and old sci-fi movies! Formed in 2004 they quickly became known for their anarchic stage shows and goofball music. Knowing that the denizens of Central Florida could handle the madness, they organized a guerilla theater troupe for every show they played in order to maximize the chaos. In 2016 they broke into the world of feature films with the release of The Killer Robots! Crash and Burn! Now, 6 years later they return with the unstoppable force that is Robotica Destructiva!
Prepare to do battle Enzian! Freaky Fridays will never be the same.

Wendy and Lucy
2023-01-08
Wendy (Michelle Williams), a near-penniless drifter, is traveling to Alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, Lucy. Already perilously close to losing everything, Wendy hits a bigger bump in the road when her old car breaks down and she is arrested for shoplifting dog food. When she posts bail and returns to retrieve Lucy, she finds that the dog is gone, prompting a frantic search for her pet.

Enter the Dragon
2023-01-10
Enter the Dragon is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most successful martial arts films of all time, contributing to mainstream worldwide interest in the martial arts as well as inspiring numerous fictional works, including action films, television shows, action games, comic books, manga and anime.
Bruce Lee plays a martial-arts expert determined to help capture the narcotics dealer whose gang was responsible for the death of his sister. Lee enters a kung fu competition in an attempt to fight his way to the dealer’s headquarters with the help of some friends (John Saxon and Jim Kelly).

Concert for George
2023-01-16
On November 29, 2002, one year after George Harrison’s death, an all-star cast of friends gather at London’s Royal Albert Hall for an emotional tribute. The concert features a piece composed in Harrison’s honor by his sitar mentor, Ravi Shankar, and a set of songs by Monty Python with special guest Tom Hanks. Musical director Eric Clapton then leads a band featuring George’s son Dhani Harrison and fellow Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in a broad selection of Harrison’s best-loved songs.

Solaris
2023-01-21
Starts at 11 AM!
Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is dispatched to investigate, he experiences the same strange psychological phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his consciousness. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions. With Solaris,the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky created a brilliantly original science-fiction epic that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself.

Beauty and the Beast
2023-01-22
Free for Kids 12 and Under!
An arrogant young prince (Robby Benson) and his castle’s servants fall under the spell of a wicked enchantress, who turns him into the hideous Beast until he learns to love and be loved in return. The spirited, headstrong village girl Belle (Paige O’Hara) enters the Beast’s castle after he imprisons her father Maurice (Rex Everhart). With the help of his enchanted servants, including the matronly Mrs. Potts (Angela Lansbury), Belle begins to draw the cold-hearted Beast out of his isolation.

Bottle Rocket
2023-01-24
In Wes Anderson’s first feature film, Anthony (Luke Wilson) has just been released from a mental hospital, only to find his wacky friend Dignan (Owen C. Wilson) determined to begin an outrageous crime spree. After recruiting their neighbor, Bob (Robert Musgrave), the team embarks on a road trip in search of Dignan’s previous boss, Mr. Henry (James Caan). But the more they learn, the more they realize that they do not know the first thing about crime.

The Maltese Falcon
2023-01-26
This film is a part of our Popcorn Flicks in the Park series, which takes place in Central Park, Winter Park once a month and it’s FREE and open to the public! These films are presented with open captions.
Based on the novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (New York, 1930).
In this noir classic, detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) gets more than he bargained for when he takes a case brought to him by a beautiful but secretive woman (Mary Astor). As soon as Miss Wonderly shows up, trouble follows as Sam’s partner is murdered and Sam is accosted by a man (Peter Lorre) demanding he locate a valuable statuette. Sam, entangled in a dangerous web of crime and intrigue, soon realizes he must find the one thing they all seem to want: the bejeweled Maltese falcon.

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
2023-02-03
Celebrating Russ Meyer’s 100th Birthday!
In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing “King of the Nudies” Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title to one of its biggest hits, Valley of the Dolls. With a satirical screenplay by Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls follows three young female rockers (Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom) going Hollywood, in hell-bent sixties style, under the spell of a flamboyant producer—whose decadent bashes showcase Meyer’s trademark libidinal exuberance. Transgressive and outrageous, this big-studio version of a debaucherous midnight movie is an addictively entertaining romp from one of cinema’s great outsider artists.

The Seagull
2023-02-05
National Theatre Live is the National Theatre’s groundbreaking project to broadcast the best of British theatre from the London stage to cinemas around the world.
A young woman is desperate for fame and a way out. A young man is pining after the woman of his dreams. A successful writer longs for a sense of achievement. An actress wants to fight the changing of the times. In an isolated home in the countryside, dreams lie in tatters, hopes are dashed, and hearts broken. With nowhere left to turn, the only option is to turn on each other.
Following his critically acclaimed five-star production of Cyrano de Bergerac, Jamie Lloyd brings Anya Reiss’ adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s classic play to stage. Filmed live in London’s West End.

Purchase a Season Pass to attend all National Theatre Live performances and receive discounted admission, as well as a complimentary glass of house wine at each show!

Members that are Contributor level or above and Season Passholders are able to make a table reservation for this series. Reservations can only be made after a ticket or Season Pass has been purchased and are limited. Please make sure to have your confirmation number ready to provide to the box officer at time of your reservation.

Pecker
2023-02-07
A blue-collar Baltimore teen (Edward Furlong), obsessed with photographing everything he sees around him, is seized upon by an aggressive gallery owner from New York who views the youngster as fresh young talent worth entertaining, but as his success and fame grows, the boy finds himself less welcome in his home town and decides to turn the tables on the elitist art snobs of the city.

One Hundred and One Dalmatians
2023-02-09
Join us for Popcorn Flicks in the Park! They are FREE and open to the public! We encourage you to bring a blanket, a picnic or snacks, and some family and friends and join us! These films are usually held on the second Thursday of each month, and are currently taking place in Central Park, Winter Park.
In a Disney animation classic, Dalmatian Pongo is tired of his bachelor-dog life. He spies lovely Perdita and maneuvers his master, Roger, into meeting Perdita’s owner, Anita. The owners fall in love and marry, keeping Pongo and Perdita together too. After Perdita gives birth to a litter of 15 puppies, Anita’s old school friend Cruella De Vil wants to buy them all. Roger declines her offer, so Cruella hires the criminal Badun brothers to steal them — so she can have a fur coat.

Dirty Dancing
2023-02-11
Baby (Jennifer Grey) is one listless summer away from the Peace Corps. Hoping to enjoy her youth while it lasts, she’s disappointed when her summer plans deposit her at a sleepy resort in the Catskills with her parents. Her luck turns around, however, when the resort’s dance instructor, Johnny (Patrick Swayze), enlists Baby as his new partner, and the two fall in love. Baby’s father forbids her from seeing Johnny, but she’s determined to help him perform the last big dance of the summer.

Central Florida Film Slam - February 2023
2023-02-12
Free to submit; submissions accepted year-round! Submit here.
This event is open to the public, with FREE admission for Enzian Members!
Central Florida Film Slam is an unrated, independent film showcase and competition open to all regional filmmakers and students. Showcase your own work or come see the work of other local filmmakers on the big screen at Enzian Theater!
Submit your film for a chance to play the 2024 Florida Film Festival!
Audience members will select a film from each CFFS to win the Audience Award for that showcase. These fan favorite films will receive the opportunity to become a part of Enzian’s Brouhaha Film & Video Showcase or, for one lucky winner a year, direct acceptance into the Florida Film Festival’s New Florida Shorts program!
Filmmakers: CFFS is a showcase screening, with no laurels for acceptance or official awards. This preserves premiere status on your film for future festival screenings!
In addition to playing the Enzian big screen, CFFS filmmakers and attendees will have access to information sessions and workshops highlighting filmmaking and festival essentials, including must-know festival information from the official Florida Film Festival programming team. Information and dates for these sessions will be posted on Enzian’s website and the Central Florida Film Slam Facebook group as they are announced.
Filmmakers, join our Facebook Discussion Group here to connect with our team, as well as other Florida filmmakers!
Submit your film (for free!) to Central Florida Film Slam here!

FAME
2023-02-20
Irene Cara Tribute Film!
Nominated for 6 Academy Awards and 4 Golden Globes (including Best Actress and Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical)!
At the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, and musicians. This movie follows eight students from the time they audition to get into the school, through graduation. The youngsters grapple with heavy issues such as homosexuality, abortion, attempted suicide and illiteracy. On top of their unique struggles, the students must deal with the mundane pressures of adolescence like homework, heartbreak and rejection.
Another outstanding work from Alan Parker, the acclaimed British director of MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, PINK FLOYD: THE WALL, MISSISSIPPI BURNING, and THE COMMITMENTS.

The Holy Mountain
2023-02-21
In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist (Alexandro Jodorowsky) leads a Christ figure (Horacio Salinas) and seven materialistic disciples to the Holy Mountain, a mountain of immortal wise men, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.

Monster of Camp Sunshine
2023-03-03
“The motion picture that follows is a fable. In it there are many nudists but only one monster. In life, it is generally the other way around.”
Shot by anonymous maniacs in New York, this is a trash-art berserker that feels like what would happen if a 1980s slasher was teleported inside of a 1960s nudist film. A nurse and fashion model head to Camp Sunshine for a weekend of fun, sun, and cigarettes. But little do they know that Hugo, the camp’s gardener, has been transformed into an axe-wielding psychopath after drinking radioactive water! Combining experimental visuals with camp flair, this is a crackpot time capsule featuring Monty Python-esque animation, someone named Ron Cheney, Jr., and, at the end, “a brief summary of the movie for those who wish to relive its magic moments.” Newly restored from the original 35mm negative!

Much Ado About Nothing
2023-03-04
National Theatre Live is the National Theatre’s groundbreaking project to broadcast the best of British theatre from the London stage to cinemas around the world.
Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd) and John Heffernan (Dracula) lead the cast in Shakespeare’s romcom of sun, sea and mistaken identity.
The legendary family-run Hotel Messina on the Italian Riveria has been visited by artists, celebrities and royalty. But when the owner’s daughter weds a dashing young soldier, not all guests are in the mood for love.
A string of scandalous deceptions soon surround not only the young couple, but also the adamantly single Beatrice and Benedick.
Following the award-winning success of National Theatre Live’s Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night and Antony and Cleopatra, director Simon Godwin returns with this irresistible comedy, broadcast live from the National Theatre stage.

Purchase a Season Pass to attend all National Theatre Live performances and receive discounted admission, as well as a complimentary glass of house wine at each show!

Members that are Contributor level or above and Season Passholders are able to make a table reservation for this series. Reservations can only be made after a ticket or Season Pass has been purchased and are limited. Please make sure to have your confirmation number ready to provide to the box officer at time of your reservation.

First Reformed
2023-03-05
Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York on the cusp of celebrating its 250th anniversary. Once a stop on the Underground Railroad, the church is now a tourist attraction catering to a dwindling congregation, eclipsed by its nearby parent church, Abundant Life, with its state-of-the-art facilities and 5,000-strong flock. When a pregnant parishioner (Amanda Seyfried) asks Reverend Toller to counsel her husband, a radical environmentalist, the clergyman finds himself plunged into his own tormented past, and equally despairing future, until he finds redemption in an act of grandiose violence.
