Enzian Theater

The Godfather Part II
2024-02-10 11:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
50th Anniversary Showing!
The compelling sequel to “The Godfather,” contrasting the life of Corleone father and son. Traces the problems of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in 1958 and that of a young immigrant Vito Corleone (Robert De Niro) in 1917’s Hell’s Kitchen. Michael survives many misfortunes and Vito is introduced to a life of crime.

Before Sunset
2024-02-13 21:30 - 23:30
20th Anniversary Showing!
A sequel to “Before Sunrise,” this film starts nine years later as Jesse (Ethan Hawke) travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine (Julie Delpy). After his reading in Paris, Celine finds him, and they spend part of the day together before Jesse has to again leave for a flight. They are both in relationships now, and Jesse has a son, but as their strong feelings for each other start to return, both confess a longing for more.

Once
2024-02-19 21:30 - 23:30
A vacuum repairman (Glen Hansard) moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant (Marketa Irglova), who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to collaborate, and the songs that they compose reflect the story of their blossoming love.

Pufnstuf
2024-02-25 12:00 - 14:00
Marty Krofft Tribute Film!
Kids 12 and under receive free admission!
From Land of the Lost creators, Sid & Marty Krofft, comes a family comedy filled with mirth, magic and music. After a bad day at school, Jimmy runs to the shore to play his flute, but he can’t believe his eyes when his ordinary flute comes to life! When a magical talking boat appears, he boards the ship only to discover that it has been sent by an evil witch named Witchiepoo to keep him prisoner and take his flute. It’s up to the fantastic dragon H.R. Pufnstuf and his comical companions, Cling and Clang, to come to the rescue in an adventure beyond anyone’s wildest imagination.

Shaft
2024-02-27 21:30 - 23:30
Richard Roundtree Tribute Film!
John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) is the ultimate in suave black detectives. He first finds himself up against Bumpy (Moses Gunn), the leader of the black crime mob, then against black nationals, and finally working with both against the white mafia who are trying to blackmail Bumpy by kidnapping his daughter.

Cemetery Man
2024-03-01 23:30 - 2024-03-02 02:00
30th Anniversary Director Approved 4K Restoration.
Francesco Dellamorte (3-time BAFTA award nominee, Rupert Everett) is the groundskeeper at the Buffalora cemetery where the dead just won’t stay dead—and it’s up to him to deal with those who come back to life with a hunger for human flesh. But Dellamorte’s job soon becomes much more complicated when he falls for an enigmatic young woman (Anna Falchi) whose husband has recently died. Will his resurrected lust for life become greater than his bond with death? François Hadji-Lazaro (THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN) co-stars in the finest erotic-romantic-existential-black-comedy-zombie-gorefest of our time.
Based on the novel by Tiziano Sclavi (DYLAN DOG) and directed by Dario Argento protégé Michele Soavi (THE CHURCH), CEMETERY MAN is a late masterpiece of Italian horror.

Killer Joe
2024-03-03 12:00 - 14:00
William Friedkin Tribute Month!
Unrated Directors Cut!
When 22-year-old Chris (Emile Hirsch) finds himself in debt to a drug lord, he hires a hit man to dispatch his mother, whose $50,000 life insurance policy benefits his sister Dottie (Juno Temple). Chris finds Joe Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a creepy, crazy Dallas cop who moonlights as a contract killer. When Chris can’t pay Joe upfront, Joe sets his sight on Dottie as collateral for the job. The contract killer and his hostage develop an unusual bond. Like from a modern-day, twisted fairy tale, “Killer Joe” Cooper becomes the prince to Dottie’s Cinderella.Based on the play by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tracy Letts, “Killer Joe” is a garish, provocative black comedy from Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection).

Sorcerer
2024-03-09 12:00 - 15:00
William Friedkin Tribute Month!
In the small South American town of Porvenir, four men on the run from the law are offered $10,000 and legal citizenship if they will transport a shipment of dangerously unstable nitroglycerin to an oil well 200 miles away. Led by Jackie Scanlon (Roy Scheider), the men set off on a hazardous journey, during which they must contend with dangerously rocky roads, unstable bridges, and attacks from local guerillas. The four fight for their lives as they struggle to complete their dangerous quest.

The Exorcist
2024-03-12 21:30 - 23:30
ORIGINAL THEATRICAL CUT!
William Friedkin Tribute Month
One of the most profitable horror movies ever made, this tale of an exorcism is based loosely on actual events. When young Regan (Linda Blair) starts acting odd — levitating, speaking in tongues — her worried mother (Ellen Burstyn) seeks medical help, only to hit a dead end. A local priest (Jason Miller), however, thinks the girl may be seized by the devil. The priest makes a request to perform an exorcism, and the church sends in an expert (Max von Sydow) to help with the difficult job.

Who Can See Forever: A Portrait of Iron & Wine
2024-03-18 21:30 - 23:00
Who Can See Forever is the first ever in-depth look into the life and music of Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam. Initially conceived as a live document, Who Can See Forever grew into a deeper study of its enigmatic subject as director Josh Sliffe spent more and more time on the road. Shot over the course of three years and using the traditional concert film as his jumping-off point, Sliffe digs into the myth and ethos of Iron & Wine through a series of interviews and unguarded behind-the-scenes footage that welcome the viewer into the center of Beam’s universe. The film broke ground during a particularly creative period wherein Iron & Wine released back-to-back Grammy nominated records and were in the midst of a three-year touring cycle. The concert film is drawn from a two night-stand at the historic Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw, North Carolina and features bassist Sebastian Steinberg (Fiona Apple, Soul Coughing), drummer Elizabeth Goodfellow (Allison Russell, Better Oblivion Community Center), cellist Teddy Rankin-Parker and keyboardist Eliza Hardy-Jones (War on Drugs, Grace Potter). The shows were performed in-the-round for a once in a lifetime experience and the live performances pull from the entirety of Iron & Wine’s 20-plus year career. Who Can See Forever manages to serve as part concert film, part music documentary and part meditative examination as it captures one of independent music’s most prolific singer-songwriters.

Chicken Run
2024-03-24 12:00 - 14:00
Free for kids 12 and under!
This engaging stop-motion, claymation adventure tells the story of an American rooster who falls in love with a gorgeous hen on a British farm. The couple decides to run away from the farm, but they must first contend with the evil farmer who is intent on keeping them under her control. The chickens decide to attempt an escape so they don’t get turned into chicken pot pies.

Bug
2024-03-26 21:30 - 23:30
Featuring a discussion with Dr. Benjamin Fry about the neurobiology of psychosis!
At a rundown desert motel, Agnes (Ashley Judd) begins a tentative relationship with a newcomer named Peter (Michael Shannon). He has a strange charisma, one that offers fearful and unstable Agnes a flicker of hope. When Peter reveals that the military deliberately infected him with a bug and that he has tiny insects crawling under his skin, paranoia begins to envelop the desperate pair.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Benjamin Fry is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Central Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience from Michigan State University in 2022. Dr. Fry is an expert on the role of midbrain dopaminergic circuitry as it pertains to diverse facets of human experience such as learning, memory, reward, addiction, and neuropsychiatric illness. In particular, his work has focused on identifying the neural circuitry underlying hallucinations in transgenic models of schizophrenia. Through a combination of Pavlovian learning theory, Bayesian inference, and cutting-edge modern neuroscience techniques, Dr. Fry hopes to identify novel treatment modalities for individuals with schizophrenia.

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?
2024-04-05 23:30 - 2024-04-06 01:30
60th Anniversary!
A daytime trip to the carnival turns, well, incredibly strange, when the happy-go-lucky Jerry (Cash Flagg) is transformed into a brainwashed killer by the scheming fortune teller Madame Estrella. As carnival patrons begin going missing and performers start turning up dead, will the midway be safe from Estrella and her army of acid-scarred zombies?
Shot in “Terrorama” by acclaimed cinematographers Joseph V. Mascelli, László Kovács (Ghostbusters) and Oscar® winner Vilmos Zsigmond (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Deer Hunter), and directed by DIY champion Ray Dennis Steckler—who made the film for $38,000 when he was just 23 years old—THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES!!? is also the world’s first monster musical!

Beetlejuice
2024-04-09 21:30 - 23:30
After Barbara (Geena Davis) and Adam Maitland (Alec Baldwin) die in a car accident, they find themselves stuck haunting their country residence, unable to leave the house. When the unbearable Deetzes (Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones) and teen daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder) buy the home, the Maitlands attempt to scare them away without success. Their efforts attract Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton), a rambunctious spirit whose “help” quickly becomes dangerous for the Maitlands and innocent Lydia.

It's Only Life After All
2024-04-10 21:30 - 23:30
One Night Only!
With forty years of making music as the iconic folk-rock band Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have made their mark as musicians, songwriters, and dedicated activists. They have represented radical self-acceptance to many, leading multiple generations of fans to say, “the Indigo Girls saved my life.” Still, Amy and Emily battled misogyny, homophobia, and a harsh cultural climate chastising them for not fitting into a female pop star mold. With joy, humor, and heart-warming earnestness, Sundance award-winning director Alexandria Bombach brings us into a contemporary conversation with Amy and Emily—alongside decades of the band’s home movies and intimate present-day verité.

Terminal USA
2024-05-03 23:30 - 2024-05-04 01:30
A force of nature since 1985, underground icon Jon Moritsugu—in partnership with wife Amy Davis—creates candy-colored genre riots that feel like NC-17 sitcoms from outer space. Moritsugu’s fearless, protopunk deconstructions function as a giant middle finger to everything from racism to gender expectations—while also exploring themes of Asian-American identity.
Holly (Jenny Woo), Marvin (writer/director Jon Moritsugu), and Katzumi (Moritsugu again) are average Asian-American teenage siblings with not-so-average predilections for backstabbing, kinky sex, and drug-fueled freakouts. Neglected by their parents, the kids turn to outside “help” (including the scene-stealing Amy Davis, Moritsugu’s wife and longtime collaborator) in order to escape their bored existence. Naturally, this leads to gore killings, sex tapes, and the most hilarious phone conversations ever captured on 16mm film.
Funded with a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts with the intention of being distributed on PBS; Once the film was completed, virtually no stations would dare to air it!
A candy-colored hellscape that feels like an episode of STRANGERS WITH CANDY that was filmed by Dario Argento during a three-day acid bender, Jon Moritsugu’s TERMINAL USA is a crucial piece of 1990s alternative cinema—smart, shocking, and one of the most deranged films to ever be funded by American taxpayers. This is the film HEATHERS wished it could be.

Romeo and Juliet
2024-05-04 11:00 - 14:00
Romeo and Juliet risk everything to be together. In defiance of their feuding families, they chase a future of joy and passion as violence erupts around them.
This bold new film brings to life the remarkable backstage spaces of the National Theatre in which desire, dreams and destiny collide to make Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy sing in an entirely new way.
Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose, Judy) and Josh O’Connor (Challengers, The Crown) play Juliet and Romeo. The award-winning cast includes Tamsin Greig, Fisayo Akinade, Adrian Lester, Lucian Msamati, Deborah Findlay.

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Breaking the Waves
2024-05-05 11:00 - 14:30
Lars von Trier became an international sensation with this galvanizing realist fable about sex and spiritual transcendence. In an Oscar-nominated performance, Emily Watson stuns as Bess, a simple, pious newlywed in a tiny Scottish village who gives herself up to a shocking form of martyrdom after her husband (Stellan Skarsgård) is paralyzed in an oil rig accident. Breaking the Waves, both brazen and tender, profane and pure, is an examination of the expansiveness of faith and of its limits.

Shrek
2024-05-09 20:00 - 22:00
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.
Once upon a time, in a far away swamp, there lived an ogre named Shrek (Mike Myers) whose precious solitude is suddenly shattered by an invasion of annoying fairy tale characters. They were all banished from their kingdom by the evil Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow). Determined to save their home — not to mention his — Shrek cuts a deal with Farquaad and sets out to rescue Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) to be Farquaad’s bride. Rescuing the Princess may be small compared to her deep, dark secret.

Blood Simple
2024-05-11 11:00 - 14:00
40th Anniversary Screening!
M. Emmet Walsh Tribute Film
Deep in the heart of Texas, a sleazy bar owner suspects his wife of having an affair and hires a private detective to confirm his suspicions—only to have the crosshairs turned back on himself.

10 Things I Hate About You
2024-05-14 21:30 - 23:30
25th Anniversary!
On the first day at his new school, Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) instantly falls for Bianca (Larisa Oleynik), the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date…until her ill-tempered, completely un-datable older sister Kat (Julia Stiles) goes out, too. In an attempt to solve his problem, Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad boy (Heath Ledger) with a nasty reputation of his own!

The Cat Has Nine Lives
2024-05-18 11:00 - 13:00
Following the film, Ula Stöckl will participate in a moderated discussion with filmmaker Rachel Braaten about her career.
In the summer of 1967, journalist Katharina is visited in Munich by her French friend Anne. They take day trips and visit cafés, acquaintances, and parties. In a series of conversations between them and other women, they talk about the chances for female emancipation in a male-dominated society.
Stöckl’s first feature film, The Cat Has Nine Lives, from 1968, looks at the lives and friendships of four women (a fifth one is a fantasy of one of the characters) who yearn for freedom and appreciation yet find themselves disillusioned in their current situations. Katarina, a journalist, navigates the male-centric world of journalism; her French friend, Anne, is recently divorced and in limbo; Gabriele is a determined pop star; and last, the nameless wife of the cheating Stefan is caught up in domestic responsibility. These characters examine the power relationships that have governed their lives and consider potential alternatives. Partially autobiographical, The Cat Has Nine Lives is considered the first feminist film in Germany and is now a classic of Euro feminist cinema. Shot in widescreen Techniscope, the film is a collage of color that blends existential narrative, dream sequences, and thematic montage.
Preceded by
Ula
Directed by Rachel Braaten
USA, 2024, 19 MIN
Ula looks at the life and career of German feminist filmmaker, Ula Stöckl, and the contributions she’s made to film as an art form and mode of social commentary; in it she discusses her themes, process, and struggles as a female director and member of the New German Cinema movement.

Ula Stöckl
Ula Stöckl is Germany’s first feminist filmmaker and the first woman to be accepted into film school in Germany at the Institute for Film at the Ulm School of Design. As a member of the New German Cinema movement, she defied traditional film practices, opting for avant-garde stories told from a woman’s perspective. As both writer and director of her films, she became an auteur who sought to express the attitudes of women of her generation. Her works feature updated versions of female mythological figures who struggle with gender inequality and the hypocrisy and deception associated with it. These women long for independence and free expression, as they push back against societal norms.
Born in Ulm, Germany in 1938, Stöckl’s childhood was fraught with the tragedy of war. When her father was called away to war, her mother did what she could to care for and protect the family. The oldest of four children, Stöckl was the only one to survive (her parents later had another child after the war). Her father, an orchestral clarinetist by trade, introduced her to the theater, and due to his profession, she was able to enjoy many theatrical performances during her adolescence and early adulthood. This sparked her desire to tell stories and become a filmmaker.
Stöckl has produced and directed over 20 films in her native Germany, including Sleep of Reason, which won Germany’s highest film prize in 1985. Her work has been shown at over 80 festivals around the world, including Berlinale, the Chicago International Film Festival, and the Toronto International Film Festival. Four of her features have been shown in America with the sponsorship of the Goethe Institute. She has been on the selection committees for the Berlin Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival, the Women’s International Film Festival in Cologne, and the Leipzig International Film Festival. Her films are shown in international retrospectives worldwide. She has taught film at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and at Hollins University in Virginia. She has been a professor of film at the University of Central Florida since 2002.
About Rachel Braaten
Rachel Braaten is a Film Studies and Humanities professor at Seminole State College of Florida. In addition to teaching, she has worked on the production side of the film and television industries. Her recent documentary work involves the life and works of German feminist filmmaker, Ula Stöckl. She has been a programmer for the Florida Film Festival, serving on the international features and documentary film committees.

Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo
2024-05-20 21:30 - 23:30
40th Anniversary!
Slip on your parachute pants, lace up your high tops and bust a move with Breakin’ 2 Electric Boogaloo, the sequel to the wildly popular ’80s classic, Breakin’. Director Sam Firstenberg (American Ninja) reunites cast members Adolfo “”Shabba-Doo”” Quinones (Lambada), Lucinda Dickey (Grease 2) and Michael “”Boogaloo Shrimp”” Chambers (Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey) as they attempt to save the local community center from an unscrupulous businessman played by Peter MacLean (The Friends of Eddie Coyle).
Capturing the neon fashion of the period and featuring hip-top tunes and breakdance moves courtesy of Ice-T (New Jack City, TV’s Law & Order: SVU) and Cooley Jackson (Moonwalker), along with supporting performances by Susie Coelho (The Norseman), Harry Caesar (The Longest Yard) and Ken Olfson (Spaceballs), Breakin’ 2 Electric Boogaloo is a beloved ’80s guilty pleasure.

Cars
2024-05-26 12:00 - 14:30
Free for kids 12 and under!
While traveling to California to race The King and Chick Hicks in the Piston Cup Championship, Lightning McQueen falls out of his trailer and winds up in a run-down town called Radiator Springs. He slowly befriends the town’s odd residents, including Sally, Doc Hudson and Mater. When it comes time for him to leave, the championship is no longer his top priority.

Cecil B. Demented
2024-05-28 21:30 - 23:30
Hollywood’s greatest diva, the amazing Honey Whitlock (Melanie Griffith), is kidnapped by the terrorist film director Cecil B. DeMented (Stephen Dorff), and his crazy crew, the SPROCKET HOLES (Alicia Witt, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Adrien Grenier), to force her to make the ultimate underground movie. Ignoring all the rules of Mainstream moviemaking Cecil B. and his wild bunch are ready to sacrifice everything. Honey, however, might have found the best role of her career.

Troll 2
2024-06-01 12:00 - 15:00
Come out for a special screening of one of the best worst movies ever made, then after the film join us in the Enzian parking lot for our first ever “Goblin Market!”
Trolls live in the woods around Nilbog and feed on the town’s population. By transforming themselves into people, the trolls are able to come into town and pick their menu. This summer, their prey is the Waits Family, who have arrived to spend their vacation in the countryside. But before the trolls can eat them, they must first be turned into vegetables. Yes. You heard that right.
WHAT IS “GOBLIN MARKET”?
Goblin Market is Orlando’s first and only discount art market! Join us from 1pm-6pm in the Enzian parking lot for misprint and dead stock art and vintage in bargain bins and mystery bags along with the best food Orlando’s Goblins have to offer.

Ratcatcher
2024-06-02 12:00 - 15:00
In her breathtaking and assured debut feature Ratcatcher, Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin) confirmed herself as one of the most distinct and important voices to emerge from the United Kingdom in recent years. The Scottish-born director evinced a preoccupation with family and the fragilities of childhood and adolescence in a trilogy of shorts, Small Deaths (1995), Kill the Day (1996), and Gasman (1997); Ratcatcher continued and refined Ramsay’s exploration.
Set during Scotland’s national garbage strike of the mid-1970s, the film explores the experiences of a poor adolescent boy as he struggles to reconcile his dreams and his guilt with the abjection that surrounds him. Utilizing beautiful, elusive imagery, candid performances, and unexpected humor, Ramsay deftly contrasts urban decay with a rich interior landscape of hope and perseverance, resulting in a work at once raw and deeply poetic.

The Films of the Gay Girls Riding Club
2024-06-07 23:30 - 2024-06-08 01:30
The Films of the Gay Girls Riding Club
Spearheaded by filmmaker Ray Harrison, the Gay Girls Riding Club (GGRC) took California’s 1960s underground gay scene by storm with drag spoofs of classic Hollywood films. These pioneering DIY takes on films like WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE and ALL ABOUT EVE provide an essential snapshot of mid-century drag culture that would feel right at home with the dreamy work of Mike and George Kuchar. AGFA, in partnership with the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project, is thrilled to present this overlooked chapter of queer cinema—preserved from the only known 16mm film elements in existence.
What Really Happened to Baby Jane?
1963, USA, 31 minutes, Directed by Ray Harrison, Unrated
Created by the GGRC less than one year after the massive box office success of Bette Davis’ and Joan Crawford’s histrionic horror flick Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? One might ask the question can you out camp a camp classic! And the answer is a resounding yes!
All About Alice
1972, USA, 68 minutes, Directed by Ray Harrison, Unrated
The queens are back, and this time the GGRC is setting their spicy-flair on sending up Joesph L. Mankiewicz Oscar®-winning cat-fight classic All About Eve! “Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night”.
Restorations courtesy of the American Genre Film Archive, UCLA Film & TV Archive and The Outfest Legacy Project.

Man Ray: Return To Reason
2024-06-08 12:00 - 15:00
4K Restoration!
The four films Man Ray directed between 1923 and 1929, LE RETOUR À LA RAISON, EMAK-BAKIA, L’ÉTOILE DE MER and LES MYSTÈRES DU CHÂTEAU DU DÉ represent a high watermark of early European avant-garde cinema, a seminal nexus of experimental technique, surrealist narrative, and playful abstraction as suffused with dark eroticism. In these films Ray began discovering the limitless possibilities of montage as well as the direct application onto celluloid of objects such as salt, pepper, pins, and thumbtacks. Juxtaposing undulating geometric patterns, a twirling fairground ride, and a female nude, among other striking images, Ray finds subconscious correspondences among seemingly incongruous materials and figures.
In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of LE RETOUR À LA RAISON, the Jim Jarmusch-Carter Logan combo Sqürl present MAN RAY: RETURN TO REASON, with a newly-recorded drone rock soundtrack for that title as well as the three other Ray films. The band’s cosmic sounds complement Ray’s work by conjuring the beautiful, ineffable, haunting, and sublime.
The restoration process was led by Womanray and Cinenovo sourcing original prints from various parts of the world, in partnership with La Cinémathèque française, the Centre Pompidou, the Library of Congress, the French CNC and Cineteca di Bologna.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
2024-06-11 21:30 - 23:00
Danger once again surrounds Bella (Kristen Stewart), as a string of mysterious killings terrorizes Seattle and a malicious vampire continues her infernal quest for revenge. Amid the tumult, Bella must choose between her love for Edward (Robert Pattinson) and her friendship with Jacob (Taylor Lautner), knowing that her decision may ignite the long-simmering feud between vampire and werewolf.
