EL PASO, TEXAS — Academy Award nominee Candy Clark will discuss her experiences with David Bowie while making The Man Who Fell to Earth at this year’s Plaza Classic Film Festival.
Clark’s appearance is part of the El Paso Community Foundation’s ninth annual Plaza Classic Film Festival, which will feature more than 90 movies from August 4-14 in and around the historic Plaza Theatre.
Clark will be interviewed at 9 p.m. Saturday, August 13 in the Plaza Theatre. The screening of the Nicolas Roeg-directed 1976 sci-fi classic will follow immediately after.
Candy played Mary-Lou, Bowie’s love interest. Bowie, who died on January 10, made his movie debut as Thomas Jerome Newton, an extraterrestrial sent to Earth to transport water to his dying planet. Bowie was at the height of his rock stardom — and battling cocaine addiction — when he took on the role. “I actually was feeling as alienated as that character was,” he told Rolling Stone. “It was a pretty natural performance. … a good exhibition of somebody literally falling apart in front of you.”
More than 20 minutes was cut from the original U.S. release. Though it was not received well at the time, the movie’s stature has grown over the years, thanks in large part to Clark’s successful efforts to get the original director’s cut released. The Man Who Fell to Earth now has an 83% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Man Who Fell to Earth was shot in New Mexico in the summer of 1975. White Sands National Monument doubled as Bowie’s home planet.
Candy Clark is a Fort Worth native who was nominated for her performance in George Lucas’ 1973 blockbuster American Graffiti. Her other movie credits include John Huston’s Fat City, The Big Sleep, More American Graffiti, Blue Thunder, At Close Range, Zodiac and When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder?, which was filmed in El Paso. Her TV credits include Magnum, P.I., Matlock and Criminal Minds.
Candy will sign autographs at a time and location to be announced.
Plaza Classic Film Festival tickets go on sale July 8. Festival Passes, which include admission to all movies, are $200. A limited number of Film Club Passes, for high school students, are $100. Passes are available at plazaclassic.com/tickets and 915-533-4020.
Say “I luuurve you” when Woody Allen’s four-time Academy Award-winning romantic comedy Annie Hall comes to this year’s Plaza Classic Film Festival, presented by the El Paso Community Foundation. Allen won Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, Diane Keaton won Best Actress and the touching, inventive 1977 classic won for Best Picture.
It will be our opening night movie on Aug. 4, and the first Woody Allen movie to be shown at the Plaza Classic Film Festival, which returns for its ninth year Aug. 4-14, 2016 in and around Plaza Theatre.
We’re announcing nine more of our 90 movies each week, in honor of our ninth anniversary this year. The full schedule will be announced later this month. Tickets go on sale July 8. Festival Passes and Film Club Passes are on sale now at plazaclassic.com/tickets.
Here are eight more movies that will be in this year’s PCFF:
• Allen’s ex, Mia Farrow, stars as the unwitting mother to the devil’s spawn in Roman Polanski’s disturbing Rosemary’s Baby (1968), showing Aug. 9. It’s part of a monster/horror theme we’re planning for this year.
• Help celebrate Gregory Peck’s 100th birthday with Gentlemen’s Agreement (1947), about a journalist who goes undercover to expose anti-Semitism in a small New England town, Aug. 9
• Spencer Tracy and Fredric March square off in a fictional version of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial in Inherit the Wind (1960), Aug. 11. Sponsored by the El Paso Bar Association.
• Michael Keaton plays a disgusting ghost in the Tim Burton comedy Beetlejuice (1988), Aug. 11
• Cantinflas returns as a priest out to move a small town forward in the comedy El Padrecito (1964), Aug. 7
• Bill Murray and Scarlett Johanson play displaced souls in Tokyo in Sofia Coppola’s absorbing Lost in Translation (2003), Aug. 6
• Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford vie for the nomination of their party in The Best Man (1964), Aug. 13
• A group of kids, whose homes are in danger of foreclosure, go on an adventure after they discover a treasure map in Goonies (1985), Aug. 5.
The Italian Stallion makes his debut at the El Paso Community Foundation’s Plaza Classic Film Festival with a 40th anniversary showing of Sylvester Stallone’s Oscar-winning Rocky on Thursday, Aug. 11, sponsored by Capital Bank.
It’s one of nine more PCFF 2016 movies announced today in honor of our ninth anniversary. We’ve already revealed 30 of the 90 movies we’ll show this year, including Apocalypse Now, The Music Man, Young Frankenstein, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Cool Hand Luke, Dracula and the original Star Wars trilogy.
The Plaza Classic Film Festival returns Aug. 4-14 in and around the Plaza Theatre. Tickets go on sale in July. Festival Passes, which include admission to all ticketed events, are on sale now at plazaclassic.com/tickets.
Here are the other eight movies we’re announcing today:
• Barbra Streisand gives an Academy Award-winning performance as Fanny Brice in the beloved musical Funny Girl (1968), Aug. 14, sponsored by Debbi Hester/Realtor and Perry Hester/Realtor.
• Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman star in Alfred Hitchcock’s Nazi spy thriller Notorious (1946), Aug. 4
• John Wayne plays the Ringo Kid in the digitally restored John Ford Western classic Stagecoach (1939), Aug. 12, sponsored by Wells Fargo
• Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford get caught in a dangerous love triangle in the noir thriller Gilda (1946), Aug. 11
• Jerry Lewis plays a second-rate magician who takes a young Japanese boy under wing in The Geisha Boy (1958), Aug. 9
• Robert Mitchum plays a religious fanatic who kills women in the thriller Night of the Hunter (1955), Aug. 5
• Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter play an unlikely couple who steal a baby in the Coen Brothers’ comedy Raising Arizona (1987), Aug. 11
• Catherine Deneuve stars as a French housewife who leads a taboo double life in Luis Bunuel’s erotic Belle de Jour (1967), Aug. 11
The El Paso Community Foundation’s Plaza Classic Film Festival celebrates its ninth birthday Aug. 4-14 in and around the Plaza Theatre. Today we’re announcing nine more of the 90 movies we’ll be showing. Our full schedule will be out in June. Tickets go on sale in July. Festival Passes and Film Club passes are available now on the Tickets & Passes page.
• Young Frankenstein (1974) — Have a roll in ze hay with Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Inga, Igor and Frau Blucher in Mel Brooks’ dead-on parody of Frankenstein movies, Aug. 13
• The Apartment (1960) — Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray team up in Billy Wilder’s comedy-drama, Aug. 9
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) — Jimmy Stewart plays a naive young senator who fights for survival amidst corruption in the Frank Capra classic, Aug. 5
• Hairspray (1988) — Ricki Lake stars as a “pleasantly plump” teenager who becomes the star of a TV dance show and fights segregation in early ’60s Baltimore John Waters’ PG cult classic musical, Aug. 8
• Pride and Prejudice (1940) — Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier star in this revered adaptation of Jane Austen’s 19th century British novel of manners, Aug. 10
• Dracula (1931) — Bela Lugosi plays the definitive version of the vampire count from Transylvania in this Universal classic, Aug. 6
• Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown (1988) — The black comedy about women, men and betrayal put Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodovar on the map, Aug. 10
• Love Me Tender (1956) — Elvis Presley made his movie debut (but didn’t get top billing) in this Civil War drama with music, Aug. 5
• Pink Floyd The Wall (1982) — El Paso rockers Alabama Deathwalk will open for our outdoor showing of Alan Parker’s surrealistic take on the classic Pink Floyd album, Aug. 5
The El Paso Community Foundation’s Plaza Classic Film Festival returns for its ninth year Aug. 4-14, 2016 in and around the Plaza Theatre. In honor of our ninth birthday, we’re releasing nine more titles from this year’s schedule each week:
• Leading the big parade is Meredith Willson’s endearing The Music Man (1962), with Shirley Jones and Robert Preston, on Aug. 12 (sponsored by Wells Fargo)
• Paul Newman plays a prisoner bent on fighting the system in Cool Hand Luke (1967), Aug. 13
• Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton duke it out in Mike Nichols’ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Aug. 10
• Angela Lansbury triggers an insidious political assassination plot in the Cold War thriller The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Aug. 7
• The Marx Brothers play stowaways caught between rival gangs in their third film, Monkey Business (1931), Aug. 6
• Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra vie for the affections of Grace Kelly (in her last movie role) in the musical comedy High Society (1956), Aug. 8
• Sean Penn and Phoebe Cates star in Amy Heckerling’s coming-of-age comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Aug. 4
• A family battles poverty in Pather Panchali (1955), the first of Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s neorealist Apu trilogy, Aug. 9
• Pablo Picasso paints for the camera in the French documentary The Mystery of Picasso (1956), Aug. 5
