One special way to keep warm at this year’s third annual WinterFest — enjoy the FREE Holiday Movies at the Plaza Theatre. Beloved classics It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street will be shown along with modern favorites such as Elf and Frozen, over five Sundays beginning November 18 and ending January 6.
Texas Gas Service is sponsoring the FREE Holiday Movies at the Plaza in partnership with the El Paso Community Foundation, the Plaza Classic Film Festival and El Paso Live. WinterFest is presented by The Hospitals of Providence and Providence Children’s Hospitals.
The series opens with Elf, starring Will Ferrell, at 3 p.m. Sunday, November 18, followed by a double bill of the 1966 TV special How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and Robert Zemeckis’ animated The Polar Express, starting at 3 p.m. Sunday, November 25.
The movies continue two weeks later with 1947’s Miracle on 34th Street, starring then child-actor Natalie Wood, at 3:30 pm Sunday, December 9, followed by a double bill of 1983’s A Christmas Story at 1 p.m. and Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, December 16.
The series concludes with two wintry titles, Disney’s Frozen at 1 p.m. and Ice Age at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, January 6, the last day of WinterFest.
In true Plaza Classic style, organists Ken Fedorick, Richard Garven and Laurie Koval will perform on the Plaza Theatre’s original, restored Wyler Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ before each movie.
WinterFest, which includes ice skating in Arts Festival Plaza, runs November 17 through January 6. The 12th annual Plaza Classic Film Festival will be August 1-11, 2019.
Go to epwinterfest.com and plazaclassic.com for more information.
Holiday Movies at the Plaza Theatre
Free
Sunday, November 18
2:30 p.m. — Organist Laurie Koval
3 p.m. — Elf (2003)
Sunday, November 25
2:30 p.m. — Organist Richard Garven
3 p.m. — How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
3:30 p.m. — The Polar Express (2004)
Sunday, December 9
3 p.m. — Organist Ken Fedorick
3:30 p.m. — Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Sunday, December 16
12:30 p.m. — Organist Ken Fedorick
1 p.m. — A Christmas Story (1983)
3 p.m. — Organist Richard Garven
3:30 p.m. — It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Sunday, January 6
12:30 p.m. — Organist Laurie Koval
1 p.m. — Frozen (2013)
3 p.m. — Organist Richard Garven
3:30 p.m. — Ice Age (2002)
