PLAZA CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL, HOLIDAY SHOPPING MADE EASY
November 23, 2011

With a little more than a week before this year’s Plaza Classic Christmas Special on December 3rd and 4th, now’s the time to get a jump on next year’s festival and solve your holiday gift conundrum.

Passes for the 2012 Plaza Classic Film Festival will be on sale from November 28th to December 22nd for $175 each ... read more

Plaza Classic Film Festival Christmas Special Returns
November 23, 2011



The Plaza Classic Film Festival presents: A Christmas Story, It's A Wonderful Life, White Christmas and Holiday Classic Shorts: How The Grinch Stole Christmas and Other Favorites.

All shows $5. Free to Plaza Classic Film Festival Passholders!

Tickets available at the Plaza Theatre Box Office.

Sponsored by One Source Federal Credit ... read more

Remember the 4th Annual Plaza Classic Film Festival for years to come!
August 9, 2011

We’ve received a lot of positive feedback on this year’s poster and banner designs, so we’ve created a special commemorative poster with all 12 designs. You can see a beautifully framed edition of the poster in the lobby of the Plaza Theatre during this year’s festival and order yours for just $25. A limited quantity of these posters will be ... read more

Introducing the Plaza Classic iPhone App!
August 4, 2011

The world's largest classic film festival now has its first iPhone app! This iPhone app is a great way to track news, schedule and personalize your experience. Download the Plaza Classic Film Festival app to stay up to date with the festival and to access the following features:

  • Schedule: View the festival schedule by date and time, read the synopsis ... read more

Classic Short Films to be Screened, Many Free!
August 1, 2011

Not all great films are feature-length. The Plaza Classic Film Festival is excited to roll out its list of classic short films to be screened during this year’s 11 day film festival.

While some of these shorts will be paired with our feature length titles, we’ll be playing many of these titles back to back during our free Plaza ... read more

El Paso Hosts World Premiere of Tales from Dell City, Texas
July 28, 2011

About a hundred miles east of El Paso, the dusty, nearly forgotten town of Dell City sets the stage for a documentary that captures a snapshot of what life is like in rural America. The film, Tales from Dell City, Texas, will make its world premiere at the Plaza Classic Film Festival on Sunday, August 7 at 3:30pm.

Produced ... read more

Schedule Available for Download
July 18, 2011

The official festival schedule is now available for download! Click the link below and you will find an easy-to-use one page schedule that reads in chronological order from left to right, top to bottom. Each new day of the festival is highlighted in a bold red color.



Schedule subject to change. ... read more

More Films Added to Festival Lineup!
June 28, 2011

There will be fun for the whole family at this year's festival with the addition of two Shirley Temple favorites The Blue Bird and The Little Princess. Also screening will be Elizabeth Taylor's Academy Award-winning National Velvet. Then get movin' right along with Jim Henson's modern family classic The Muppet Movie.

Bullets will be flying and the smell of ... read more

Raiders of the Lost Ark Added to Festival Lineup
June 27, 2011

Raiders of the Lost Ark, the 1981 Harrison Ford adventure about archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones, will be shown during the 11-day film festival. Raiders, directed by Steven Spielberg, and co-produced and co-written by George Lucas, paid fond tribute to the popular classics of the filmmakers’ youth and joined Jaws and Star Wars on the list of top grossing films ... read more

Plaza Classic Film Festival Partners with Disney – In a BIG Way!
June 6, 2011

The Plaza Classic Film Festival has celebrated many great films over the last three years. But one category of film has been under-represented in our past programs – Disney Classics! This year’s Plaza Classic will showcase over 70 years of work from the iconic Disney Studios with screenings of Fantasia, Beauty and the Beast, The Parent Trap, Tron, ... read more

Egypt Comes to El Paso (by way of Hollywood)
May 10, 2011

Cecil B. DeMille was one of the cinema’s greatest showmen. His 1956 production of The Ten Commandments, would not only be the director’s final film, but would also be his most successful. To say that DeMille and Paramount Pictures spared no effort or expense on this super-production would be an understatement. The planning, research and filming of this beloved classic ... read more

EPIC. The perfect word to sum up this year’s Plaza Classic Film Festival
May 5, 2011

With more than 80 films, concerts, special guests, receptions and film talks, this year’s festival will be bigger than ever.

Join us August 4th to the 14th in El Paso as we celebrate some of the greatest films of the cinema in one of the nation’s finest movie palaces, the Plaza Theatre. This year’s festival will survey more than ... read more

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