The festival returned August 6-16 with a new name, the Plaza Classic Film Festival, a few new twists and one major coup — two screenings of George Lucas’ Star Wars. Film historian Nick Clooney appeared, actor Michael York received the first Plaza Classic Award and discussed the making of Cabaret. The festival added outdoor movies and concerts in the Arts Festival Plaza, where Jim Ward’s Sleepercar and Fungi Mungle performed and we showed The Rocky Horror Picture Show on an inflatable screen for the first time.
Guests
- Actor Michael York, wife Pat York
- Film historian/journalist Nick Clooney
- Producer/production manager C.O. “Doc” Erickson
- Filmmaker Carlos Corral
- Filmmaker Rod McCall
- Filmmaker Zach Passero
Events
- “American Movie Classic: A Conversation with Nick Clooney”
- “From Vertigo to Chinatown: A Conversation with C.O. “Doc” Erickson”
- Pecha Kucha Night Vol. 4
Music
- Fungi Mungle
- Mano Sol
- Sleepercar
Movies
- The 400 Blows
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
- Ahi Esta el Detalle
- Alien
- Apollo 13
- Army of Darkness
- Art House for Kids (And Everyone Else) Vols.1-3
- Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bete)
- Becoming Eduardo (with Rod McCall)
- Best of Texas (with Bart Weiss)
- Blast of Silence
- Blazing Saddles
- Bracero Stories
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- Bride of Frankenstein
- Cabaret (with Michael York)
- Chinatown
- Diabolique
- Double Indemnity
- Dr. Cyclops
- Fantastic Voyage
- For All Mankind
- The French Connection
- The Getaway
- Goldfinger
- Gone With the Wind
- The Good, The Bad, The Indie, Vol. 5
- The Goonies
- The Graduate
- Hands of God (with Carlos Corral, two shows)
- A Hard Day’s Night
- The Hidden Fortress
- His Girl Friday
- The Hustler
- It Happened One Night
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- The Lady Eve
- La Perla
- La Strada
- Lawrence of Arabia
- The Maltese Falcon
- Mary Poppins (singalong, two shows)
- Motel, Glimpse (with Zach Passero and Justin Stone)
- The Mummy
- The Red Balloon
- Reservoir Dogs
- Rio Bravo
- Robinson Crusoe on Mars
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Roman Holiday
- The Seventh Seal
- Shane
- Some Like It Hot (with Nick Clooney)
- Spirited Away
- Star Wars (two shows)
- Superman
- The Tall T
- The Terminator
- The Thing
- Top Hat
- Two-Lane Blacktop
- Vertigo (with C.O. “Doc” Erickson)
- The War of the Worlds (1953 version)
- Westerns: Made in New Mexico
- West Side Story
- White Mane
- Who Done It?
- Women on the Verge: Border Women Filmmakers
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
