Plaza Classic Film Festival Drive-in Movies Showing This Weekend

The drive-in movie theater days were long gone in El Paso -- well, at least the non-porn type -- and then coronavirus happened, and now drive-in style movie screenings are a thing.

The Plaza Classic Film Festival is the latest to embrace the nostalgic, socially distanced entertainment option with its first ever parking lot drive-in move tour.

Due to restrictions and guidelines put in place to combat the pandemic, the film festival is popping up drive-in style events every night this weekend and the next.

Selections this weekend include the classic Steven Spielberg thriller Jaws and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. Details on the weekend screenings are below. You'll find everything else you need to know before you go at THIS LINK.

Friday, July 31
Movies: Jaws and Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid
Where: El Paso Community College Valle Verde Campus
How Much: $25 per vehicle

Directions: Take the Hunter exit, go south on Hunter and turn at the light where the large Taco street sign is. If you’re coming from the other direction, it’s a left turn into the lot.

Saturday, August 1
Movies: Smokey and the Bandit with the Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup
Where: El Paso Community College Valle Verde Campus
How Much: $25 per vehicle

Directions: Take the Hunter exit, go south on Hunter and turn at the light where the large Taco street sign is. If you’re coming from the other direction, it’s a left turn into the lot.

Sunday, August 2
Movies: Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds
Where: Camp Cohen Water Park, formally Cohen Stadium
How Much: $25 per vehicle

Directions: Just off Gateway North, between the northbound TransMountain exit and Transmountain. The parking lot on what used to be the first base side of Cohen Stadium.