Things to Do in July: Film

Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.

The Odyssey
Wide Release July 16
Elon Musk, is, as you’ve probably already heard, totally pissed that Christopher Nolan cast a Black woman, Lupita Nyong’o, to play Helen of Troy in his adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey. Indeed, Musk went as far as to say that Nolan, a moderate Brit by any measure, desecrated one of the foundations of “Western Civilization.” What makes perfect sense in all of this nonsense is Musk’s insistence that the entire and messy history of the world conform to the foundations of capitalism, which were structured by the brutal extraction of free and cheap labor from Black and brown people. The fire of racial oppression is a matter of survival for white South Africans like Musk. Racism cannot depart from the economic system that’s made him a trillionaire. What are we to do? Well, go and watch The Odyssey. A Black Helen of Troy is not as nuts as the creation of a trillionaire. Also, Nolan always makes very watchable films. (Various theaters) CHARLES MUDEDE

Vanishing Seattle + Collide-o-Scope
July 20
Two beloved institutions team up at Clock-Out Lounge for a celebration of Seattle’s weird and wonderful past. Pop-culture conservators/video wizards Shane Wahlund and Michael Anderson of Collide-O-Scope are back with Vanishing Seattle curator/documentarian Cynthia Brothers for a night of civic memory and warped entertainment promising “an all-new special concoction of vintage video, freaky film, and found-footage fun in celebration of the Seattle you once knew.” It’s our city’s birthright to pine for the pre-tech-boom era, so strap in and get nostalgia-pilled with the best ephemeristas to do it. Apparently there will be prize giveaways, “and even geoduck, too.” Oh, good! (Clock-Out Lounge, 8 pm) EMILY NOKES

Unstreamable: I Shot Andy Warhol
July 24–26
I am deeply fascinated by director Mary Harron’s filmography, which includes the iconic American Psycho, followed by campy, so-bad-they’re-good biopics like The Notorious Bettie Page, The Anna Nicole Story, Charlie Says (about Charles Manson), and Dalíland (about Salvador Dalí). It all started with Harron’s directorial debut, I Shot Andy Warhol, which she’s described as an “anti-biopic” about radical feminist, satirist, and writer Valerie Solanas, who indeed shot Warhol. I first watched this film from my laptop on a website that probably gave my computer a virus, then later, when I ordered a VHS tape off eBay. For this reason, I am so grateful to the Northwest Film Forum’s Unstreamable Series, bringing forgotten gems to the big screen. (Northwest Film Forum, times vary) AUDREY VANN

More

Dead Souls with Director Alex Cox July 2, Central Cinema, 8 pm

Con Air July 3–8, Central Cinema, times vary

Goonies July 3–8, Central Cinema, times vary

Independence Day in Hecklevision July 4, Central Cinema, 6 pm

Science and a Movie: The Fly July 5, Central Cinema, 7 pm

SIFF Movie Club: Fried Green Tomatoes July 6, SIFF Uptown, 6:30 pm

Blade Runner July 8, Denny Park, 7:30 pm

Grand Illusion Cinema Presents: Carolina Caroline July 8, SIFF Film Center, 7 pm

The Invite Opens July 9, SIFF Cinema Uptown, times vary

Labyrinth July 10, Cal Anderson, 7:30 pm

Maddie’s Secret July 10, SIFF Cinema Uptown, times vary

Back to the Future July 10–15, Central Cinema, times vary

Face/Off in Hecklevision July 10–14, Central Cinema, times vary

SIFF Community Screening: Raiders of the Lost Ark July 12, SIFF Cinema Downtown, 11 am

Seeds July 13, SIFF Film Center, 6:30 pm

Hedwig and the Angry Inch with John Cameron Mitchell July 14–15, Neptune Theatre, 7 pm

Close Encounters of the Third Kind July 15, Denny Park, 7:30

Trash Baby July 15, SIFF Film Center, 7:30 pm

Seattle Film Critics Society at 10: RRR July 16, Northwest Film Forum, 6 pm

Sinners July 17, Cal Anderson, 7:30 pm

Honeyjoon July 17–19, SIFF Film Center, times vary

Staff Selects: Microcosmos July 17–23, Northwest Film Forum, times vary

5th Element July 22, Denny Park, 7:30 pm

Cold War Summer: The Lives of Others July 22, SIFF Cinema Uptown, 7 pm

Wonka July 24, Mural Amphitheatre, 9 pm

Matilda July 14, Cal Anderson, 7:30 pm

Silent Movie Mondays: The General July 27, Paramount Theatre, 7 pm

Cold War Summer: The Manchurian Candidate July 29, SIFF Cinema Uptown, 7 pm

Art House Theatre Day July 30, multiple locations, times vary

The Princess Bride July 31, Mural Amphitheatre, 9 pm

Rocky Horror Picture Show July 31, Cal Anderson Park, 7:30 pm

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