"We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat"
The world's largest film festival dedicated to classic cinema has announced its 3rd annual, 10-day festival in El Paso, Texas. The Plaza Classic Film Festival runs August 5-15, 2010, and will feature rare screenings of classic films, film talks with celebrities and film scholars, concerts and special presentations. Screenings will be held in and around the historic Plaza Theatre Performing Arts Centre, a 1930 atmospheric movie palace restored in 2006.
This year's festival program represents a broad swath of cinema greats - from a brand-new print of The African Queen to Francis Ford Coppola's recent restoration of The Godfather; from the Technicolor brilliance of Michael Powell's The Red Shoes to the gritty black and white of the Mexican Golden Age classic, Vámonos Con Pancho Villa; From Steven Spielberg's breakout film and the epitome of a "blockbuster", Jaws, to the intense and claustrophobic Hitchcock masterpiece Psycho - the Plaza Classic Film Festival continues to gather a stellar roster of features. Gloria Swanson lamented in Sunset Boulevard, "...it's the Pictures that got small," but this year's festival will restore audiences' enchantment with great movies on a great big screen.
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