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Citizen Kane, Blobfest, Satantango, and many chances to see Jaws
The BSR July 2026 repertory movie roundup
Stephen Silver
July is coming up, and the key film event is undoubtedly Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, for which even most of the repertory houses will turn over their screens for several days in the middle of the month. But in the meantime, there are plenty of older movies coming out this month at area theaters, including a Phoenixville summer tradition.
The highlights
Cirque Du Blobfest
Friday, July 10 through Sunday, July 12
The Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge Street, Phoenixville
The 27th annual Blobfest comes to Phoenixville’s Colonial Theatre, the very theater featured in the 1958 film itself. This year’s event features a circus theme, including showings of Dumbo, Big Top Pee-Wee, Clown in a Cornfield, and Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
In addition to the traditional run-out, the Friday night program will feature “the first-ever Rocky Horror Picture Show-style screening of The Blob,” while Sunday night will feature the first-ever “Dinner en Blob.”
Citizen Kane
Sunday, July 5 and Wednesday, July 8
Various theaters (Fathom Entertainment)
Featured on numerous lists over the years as the best film ever made, Orson Welles’ 1942 masterpiece about the rise and fall of a media baron is getting a special re-release to mark its 85th anniversary.
Satantango
Saturday, July 11
Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr
If you’ve got seven hours to kill on July 11, BMFI presents a rare showing of Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr’s 1994 magnum opus, which has a running time of seven hours and 19 minutes. It’s a film that’s shown locally very rarely—the screening at the old Lightbox Film Center, shortly before the Covid shutdown in 2020, is legendary—and now it returns to town. It’s the only movie you’re likely to see this year that has not one, but two intermissions.
Other film showings
Jaws
Wednesday, July 1
The Colonial Theatre
Wednesday, July 1
The Ambler Theater
Tuesday, July 7
Ritz Five
Independence Day
Friday, July 3
Film Society Center
Vertigo
Sunday, July 5
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
City of God (Cinema Classics Seminar)
Wednesday, July 8
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Tiki Tiki
Thursday, July 9
Lightbox Film Center (Village of Industry & Art)
O Brother Where Art Thou
Thursday, July 9
Tuesday, July 21
Film Society Center
The Lost Boys
Friday, July 10
The Hiway Theater
Everybody Wants Some!!
Sunday, July 12
Saturday, July 25
Film Society Center
The Great Dictator (Cinema Classics Seminar)
Monday, July 13
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
The Devil Queen
Tuesday, July 14
Lightbox Film Center (Village of Industry & Art)
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
Friday, July 17
Film Society East
Role Models
Monday, July 20
Film Society East
American Graffiti
Wednesday, July 22
The Colonial Theatre
Joe Frazier: When the Smoke Clears
Wednesday, July 22
Wednesday, July 29
Call Me By Your Name
Thursday, July 23
The Colonial Theatre
Days of Heaven
Thursday, July 23
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
In the Mood For Love
Friday, July 24
Tuesday, July 28
Film Society East
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Friday, July 24
Ritz Five
Point Break
Saturday, July 25
Penn Treaty Park
The Fifth Element
Sunday, July 26
Monday July 27
Fathom Entertainment
Django (1996)
Monday, July 27
PhilaMOCA
Clueless (Cinema Classics Seminar)
Monday, July 27
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Dog Day Afternoon
Thursday, July 30
The Ambler Theater
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