Join the DORR POLITICAL FILM CLUB IN PERSON
Next up: The Odyssey (2026) available in movie theaters everywhere
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm (AZ time) on Thursday, August 27, 2026 at Hotel El Portal Sedona
Greetings film aficionados, join us IN PERSON to talk about The Odyssey on Thursday August 27 at 5:00 pm face to face at El Portal (95 Portal Ln just steps from Los Abrigados/Tlaquepaque).
We’re taking yet another radical turn by discussing a film that is currently playing in theaters everywhere! Given the hype, we thought watching and talking about The Odyssey, directed by award-winning Christopher Nolan, would be a perfect summer choice. Based on Homer’s epic poem, the film stars, among other notable actors, Matt Damon as Odysseus, Zendaya as Athena, Anne Hathaway as Penelope, Tom Holland as Telemachus, Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Clytemnestra, and Charlize Theron as Calypso. Earning rave reviews, the film is an exploration of legitimate authority, the social contract of hospitality (xenia), and the restoration of civil order. Manohia Dargis writes in The New York Times, “Nolan employs beauty strategically, using it to seduce viewers into stories that can seem needlessly byzantine to some — especially by impoverished mainstream industry standards — more the province of the art house than the multiplex. Nolan asks us to dream bigger. His “Odyssey” is a classic in every sense, a transporting affirmation of the art and a work of pure cinema.”
Let’s go old school and watch a film in the theater. It’s showing at Harkins in Sedona right now. Odyssey was filmed in IMAX, but you can watch it in a range of formats if you’re not in a town that hosts an IMAX theater. Watch and then join us for a conversation on the politics of casting, the meaning of good governance, the cost of war, tyrannical chaos, and of course, Democratic politics. Should be much fun!
Park in the Tlaquepaque lot, not the very small El Portal lot, and bring your own beverage or snacks as El Portal will not be serving.
DORR’s political film club is hosted by DORR members Mik Jordahl (Attorney) and Frankie Riemer (Professor).
