Enzian Theater

Love Lies Bleeding
2024-03-14 - 2024-04-04
Final Week!
From Director Rose Glass comes an electric new love story; reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.

Late Night with the Devil
2024-03-29 - 2024-04-04
Special Limited Engagement – One Week Only!
Johnny Carson rival Jack Delroy hosts a syndicated talk show ‘Night Owls’ that has long been a trusted companion to insomniacs around the country. However, ratings for the show have plummeted since the tragic death of Jack’s beloved wife. Desperate to turn his fortunes around, on October 31st, 1977, Jack plans a Halloween special like no other–unaware he is about to unleash evil into the living rooms of America.

Wicked Little Letters
2024-04-05 - 2024-04-11
Special Limited Engagement – One Week Only!
A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, WICKED LITTLE LETTERS follows two neighbors: deeply conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). When Edith and fellow residents begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as the town’s women — led by Police Officer Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan) — begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect that something is amiss, and Rose may not be the culprit after all.

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?
2024-04-05 23:30 - 2024-04-06 01:30 (America/New_York)
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.

33rd Annual Florida Film Festival
2024-04-12 - 2024-04-21
Calling all cinephiles!
Join us for the 33rd Annual Florida Film Festival, taking place from April 12-21! The Florida Film Festival is an Oscar-Qualifying festival, premiering the best in current, independent, and international cinema. Through 10 days of 160+ films and first-class events, film lovers mingle with filmmakers and celebrities over hand-crafted cocktails and a delicious menu at Eden Bar and inside Enzian Theater.
More information and tickets can be found here!

The People's Joker
2024-05-03 - 2024-05-09
This revolutionary DIY parody film and hilarious reimagining of the classic autobiographical coming-of-age story follows an unconfident, closeted trans girl as she moves to Gotham City to make it big as a comedian by joining the cast of UCB Live – a government-sanctioned late night sketch show in a world where comedy has been outlawed. As mainstream success eludes our heroine, leading her to unite with a ragtag team of rejects, misfits, and a certain love interest named Mister J, “Joker the Harlequin” is born again as a confident (and psychotic) joker on a collision course with the city’s fascist caped crusader. Vats of feminizing chemicals, sexy cartoon interludes, scarecrow psychiatrists, CGI Lorne Michaels, and psychedelic gender dysphoria all play supporting roles. Helmed by writer/director/editor/star Vera Drew and using her own life experiences as a basis for the film, THE PEOPLE’S JOKER is a deeply personal journey that’s as much documentary as it is parody.
THE PEOPLE’S JOKER features a superhero-sized cast of celebrated comedic talent in both voice and live action roles behind the vibrant kaleidoscope of characters that lampoon the iconic heroes and villains of the DC comics’ world, featuring cameos from comedy multi-hyphenate Tim Heidecker, award-winning actor Bob Odenkirk, Maria Bamford (Netflix’s Big Mouth, Adult Swim’s Teenage Euthanasia), and Scott Aukerman (Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis co-creator and host of the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast), with Vera Drew, Lynn Downey (Amazon Prime Video’s Daisy Jones & The Six), Nathan Faustyn (SADDLED), and Kane Distler, in his film debut as Mister J.

Remembering Gene Wilder
2024-05-03 - 2024-05-09
This loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, from his first collaboration with Mel Brooks in The Producers, to the enigmatic title role in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, to his inspired on-screen partnership with Richard Pryor in movies like Silver Streak. It is illustrated by a bevy of touching and hilarious clips and outtakes, never-before-seen home movies, narration from Wilder’s audiobook memoir, and interviews with a roster of brilliant friends and collaborators like Mel Brooks, Alan Alda, and Carol Kane. Remembering Gene Wilder shines a light on an essential performer, writer, director, and all-around mensch.

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.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
2024-05-04 - 2024-05-05
Part of Gene Wilder week!
Join the expedition visiting legendary Candy Man Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) in a splendiferous movie that wondrously brings to screen the endlessly appetizing delights of Roald Dahl’s classic book. Coated with flavorful tunes and production design that constantly dazzles the eye, this effervescent musical never fails to enchant the young and old. On a whirlwind tour of Willy’s incredible, edible realm of chocolate waterfalls, elfish Oompa-Loompas and industrial-sized confections, a boy named Charlie (Peter Ostrum) will discover the sweetest secret of all: a generous, loving heart.

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.

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.

Young Frankenstein
2024-05-05 - 2024-05-07
Part of Gene Wilder week!
50th Anniversary Showing
In this spoof of Mary Shelley’s gothic tale, the grandson of Victor Frankenstein, a neurosurgeon, has spent his life living down the legend of his grandfather, even changing the pronunciation of his name. When he discovers his grandfather’s diary, he begins to feel differently, and returns to the family castle to satisfy his curiosity by replicating his ancestor’s experiments. In the process, he creates one very unique monster.

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.

Aggro Dr1ft
2024-05-10 - 2024-05-12
In the seedy domain of Miami’s criminal underbelly, a seasoned hitman embarks on the relentless pursuit of his next target. The movie is shot entirely through thermal lens as he navigates a twisted world where violence and madness reign supreme. Tensions unravel, leading to a psychedelic journey that blurs the lines between predator and prey. From Director Harmony Korine (Spring Breakers) and Hip-Hop superstar Travis Scott!

Kim's Video
2024-05-10 - 2024-05-15
Physical media reigns supreme in KIM’S VIDEO, an elegiac tribute to the iconic video store in New York City that inspired a generation of cinephiles before it mysteriously closed its doors and sent its legendary film archive to a small Sicilian village for “safekeeping.” But what starts as an homage to cinema quickly becomes a rescue mission to ensure the eternal preservation of the beloved video collection.

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!

Back to Black
2024-05-16 - 2024-05-30
The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy’s eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces the many layers of the iconic artist and the tumultuous love story at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time.

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.

Ezra
2024-05-31 - 2024-06-13
New Jersey stand-up comic Max Bernal (a brilliant Bobby Cannavale) and his precocious 11-year-old autistic son Ezra (introducing William Fitzgerald) set off on a road trip in this vivid portrait of a family figuring out how to understand one another. Having recently blown up his career and his marriage, Max is living with his eccentric father Stan (Robert De Niro) and is profoundly at odds with his soon-to-be ex-wife Jenna (Rose Byrne) about how to address their son’s special needs. When Ezra is expelled from yet another school, a doctor insists he be sent to a special program elsewhere and be medicated, which Jenna is inclined to go along with. But Max will have none of it and makes the controversial decision to take Ezra in the middle of the night without Jenna’s permission, embarking on a cross-country odyssey to a taping of Jimmy Kimmel Live! Part unpredictable family dramatic comedy and part road movie, Ezra recalls John Cassavetes at his most light-hearted and features Whoopi Goldberg, Vera Farmiga, Rainn Wilson, and director Tony Goldwyn in its astonishing ensemble cast. Irresistibly charming, this is big-hearted storytelling at its finest.

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.

Hundreds of Beavers
2024-06-07 - 2024-06-13
A slapstick epic about a frostbitten battle between JEAN KAYAK and DIABOLICAL BEAVERS–hundreds of them–who stand between him and survival.

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.
