Jailhouse Rock

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After learning to play guitar and sing during a stint in the Big House, a minor-league punk kid becomes a rock star, with a little help from a beautiful agent. But the pressures of fame wear him down. Considered by many to be Elvis Presley's best film because of its eerie narrative prescience, noirish setting, and quality songs, especially the poolside performance of "You're So Square."

USA, 1957, 96 min, Rated PG, Directed by Richard Thorpe

Breakfast at Tiffany's

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Blake Edwards's adaptation of Truman Capote's classic novella is ideally cast with Audrey Hepburn in the role of Holly Golightly. The free-spirited gamine darts about New York, feted by wealthy men drawn to her megawatt charm and elegance, hoping that the party will never end.

USA, 1961, 115 min, Rated PG, Directed by Blake Edwards

The Neverending Story

In director Wolfgang Petersen's charming fantasy, Bastian (Barrett Oliver), a lonely schoolboy alienated from his father and bullied by his classmates, retreats to an attic where he becomes engrossed in a book entitled THE NEVERENDING STORY.

West Germany/USA, 1984, 102 min, Rated PG, Directed by Wolfgang Petersen

The Goonies

A thrill-a-minute adventure film. When brothers Mikey (Sean Astin) and Brand (Josh Brolin) learn that greedy developers are forcing their family to move, they and their friends decide to have one last, precious adventure together.

USA, 1985, 114 min, Rated PG, Directed by Richard Donner

The Color Purple

Steven Spielberg’s masterful adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel stars Whoppi Goldberg, in her impressive screen debut, as Celie, a sharecropper's daughter living in rural Georgia.

USA, 1985, 154 min, Rated PG-13, Directed by Steven Spielberg

CULT CLASSICS

Join us once a month for $5 screenings of your favorite cult classic films!

The Last Waltz

"The greatest rock concert movie ever made -- and maybe the best rock movie, period."— Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUE

Don't miss the 30th anniversary, possible last-chance-in-a-long-time screening of this film in 35mm (since the studio's right are expiring this month). In what just might be the finest rock & roll concert film ever, THE LAST WALTZ celebrates the final performance by the Band (Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Levon Helm, and Garth Hudson) with an incredible line-up of guest stars including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Emmylou Harris, Dr. John, Ron Wood and many others!

USA, 1978, 117 min, Rated PG, Directed by Martin Scorsese

The Road Warrior

"For pure rhythm and visual panache, Miller has few real competitors; the climactic chase, with its deft variation of tempo and point of view, is a minor masterpiece."—Dave Kehr, CHICAGO READER

The first sequel to MAD MAX takes place after nuclear war has destroyed Australia. In this installment, Max (Mel Gibson) lends his aid and protection to a small band of survivors who are losing their struggle to protect an oil refinery under siege by a band of savage, mohawked marauders.

Australia, 1981, 91 min, Rated R, Directed by Martin George Miller

Rock 'N' Roll High School

In this campy, classic musical tribute to the rock legends the Ramones, the students of Vince Lombardi High School are a wild and rebellious bunch who are sick of sitting in school--they want to go see the Ramones in concert.

USA, 1979, 93 min, Rated PG, Directed by Allan Arkush

Dazed and Confused

"The ultimate party movie -- loud, crude, socially irresponsible and totally irresistible."—Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE

Richard Linklater's DAZED AND CONFUSED takes a hysterical, nostalgic cross-clique look at high school social development. On the last day of school in May 1976, students at a suburban Texas high school wait, lackadaisically, for classes to end. The restless almost-seniors -- an eclectic group of stone-heads, fraternal jocks, and snobby sorority girls -- can't wait to haze the incoming freshman.

USA, 1993, 103 min, Rated R, Directed by Richard Linklater

Pulp Fiction

"Brilliant and brutal, funny and exhilarating, jaw-droppingly cruel and disarmingly sweet."—Desson Thomson, WASHINGTON POST

Writer-director Quentin Tarantino revisits the seedier side of Los Angeles (following 1992's RESERVOIR DOGS) with this funny, violent, tongue-in-cheek tribute to the less "classic" side of filmmaking -- the potboilers and capers, the Blaxploitation flicks and gangster movies.

USA, 1994, 154 min, Rated R, Directed by Quentin Tarantino

Trainspotting

"Exuberant and pitiless, profane yet eloquent, flush with the ability to create laughter out of unspeakable situations, "Trainspotting" is a drop-dead look at a dead-end lifestyle that has all the strength of its considerable contradictions."—Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES

A kinetic, intimate look inside the subculture of heroin abuse, this acclaimed adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel follows the misadventures of Renton, a brash, twenty-something Edinburgh junkie, and his nihilistic chums Tommy, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie.

UK, 1996, 94 min, Rated R, Directed by Danny Boyle

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MEET THE FILMMAKER

Stay tuned for more Meet the filmmaker events coming soon. In addition to the many filmmakers at the Florida Film Festival each year, Enzian Theater has welcomed documentarians Alan Berliner and Andrea Weiss, producers Michael Hausman and Christine Vachon, writer/actors Saul Williams and Eric Bogosian, and composer Paul Miller (DJ Spooky) to the theater to watch their work and discuss the art of film with our patrons. Back to top.