El Paso, TX

July 18 - July 28, 2024 • El Paso, TX

2012 Festival

The fifth Plaza Classic Film Festival, Aug. 2-12, can be summed up with two words: Al Pacino. The legendary actor brought his “Al Pacino: One Night Only” retrospective to the Plaza Theatre in honor of the centennial restoration of the Mills Building. Oscar-winning costume design icon Edith Head was the subject of an exhibit at the El Paso Museum of Art. Former Hitchcock stars appeared — Tippi Hedren with The Birds, and Oscar-winner Eva Marie Saint with North by Northwest (she also appeare with On the Waterfront). Former child star Mary Badham introduced To Kill a Mockingbird. The Plaza Classic Film Club was created for high school film buffs.

Guests

  • Actor Al Pacino
  • Actress Tippi Hedren
  • Actress Eva Marie Saint
  • Actress Mary Badham
  • Actress Jackey Raye Neyman Jones
  • Film restorer Ben Solovey
  • Critic Gerald Peary
  • Critic Sam Adams
  • Paramount archivist Randall Thropp.
  • Paramount archivist Jaci Rohr
  • Filmmakers Viviana Garcia-Besne and Alistair Tremps
  • Filmmaker Charlie Minn
  • Documentarian Jackson Polk
  • Journalist-historian Jeff Berg

Events

  • Al Pacino: One Night Only”
  • Exhibits: “Designing Woman: Edith Head at Paramount” and “Reel Glamour: Jewelry From the
  • Paramount Archive,” July 14-Sept. 9, El Paso Museum of Art
  • “This Property is Condemned,” staged reading
  • Texas Film Round-Up

Music

  • Cigarettes After Sex
  • Fixed Idea
  • Glass Tables
  • The Iveys
  • Late Nite Social Club

Movies

  • 8 Murders a Day (with Charlie Minn)
  • Alexander Nevsky
  • An American in Paris
  • A Night to Remember
  • A Place in the Sun
  • Art House for Kids: NYICFF Shorts
  • Band of Outsiders
  • The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
  • Belle de Jour
  • The Big Lebowski
  • The Birds (with Tippi Hedren)
  • The Blob
  • Branded to Kill
  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  • Casablanca
  • Courage of Lassie
  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • Donnie Darko
  • Duck Soup
  • El Paso Discoveries: Texas Film Round-Up
  • El Sicario, Room 164
  • Elvis on Tour
  • The Endless Summer
  • E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial w A Trip to the Moon
  • Godzilla (Gojira)
  • The Good, The Bad, The Indie, Vol. 8
  • The Great Escape
  • The Illusionist
  • The Incredible Shrinking Man
  • The Invisible Man
  • Jackson Polk Showcase (with Jackson Polk)
  • Kids-N-Co Showcase
  • The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
  • The Land Before Time
  • Lassie Come Home
  • L’Avventura
  • Local Flavor: Shorts Showcase
  • Local Flavor: Shorts Showcase 2
  • Looking for Richard
  • Love Before Breakfast
  • The Love Parade (with Sam Adams)
  • Made in West Texas (with Jeff Berg)
  • Mad Love
  • Magical Melies Matinee
  • Manos, The Hands of Fate (moved to Camino Real Hotel, with Ben Solovey and Jackie Raye Neyman Jones)
  • Marnie (with Tippi Hedren)
  • Microcosmos
  • Midway, with The Battle of Midway
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
  • Mothra
  • My Man Godfrey
  • The Mystery of Picasso (with Sam Adams)
  • North by Northwest (with Eva Marie Saint)
  • Nothing Sacred
  • On the Waterfront (with Eva Marie Saint)
  • Perdida (with Vivianna Garcia Besne and Alistair Tremps)
  • Playtime
  • Pulp Fiction
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Sabrina
  • Samson and Delilah
  • Santa Sangre
  • Shanghai Express
  • Shine a Light
  • Sorry, Wrong Number
  • The Sting
  • Summertime
  • The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
  • They Were Expendable
  • This Gun For Hire (with Sam Adams)
  • Thunderbirds Are Go
  • Titanic (1953)
  • To Be Or Not to Be
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (with Mary Badham)
  • Tommy
  • T.O.R.R.: Dawn of the Red
  • The Towering Inferno
  • Wattstax
  • Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
  • Wings (silent)
  • Wings of Desire