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George Bailey’s life is SO LONG

by Liz

I know you’re probably wondering what happened to the Most Wonderful Time Film Festival. I had this huge list of Christmas movies I was going to plow through. I still do. So what happened? It’s a Wonderful Life happened. George and Mary and Clarence and Zuzu happened, and so did disillusionment and redemption (I hear) and Frank Capra’s utter inability to cut anything, ever.

How is it that people watch this movie straight through? I’m not saying it’s bad. It’s not. I’m enjoying it. But the story of George Bailey’s life is long. I’ve been watching it all week, trying to finish–it’s like a giant bowl of pasta, where you feel like you’ve been eating and eating and eating, and you still have half the bowl left to go.

So that’s where the film festival stands: there’s a stack of borrowed movies in my living room and one behemoth American classic holding them all up (in the figurative sense). With a little luck and a little persistence, there will be more Christmas movies before the holiday ends.

Until then, I’ll be on the couch.

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Posted in Film festivals, Holiday on December 24th, 2006

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