Reader Participation: Christmas Film Festival Submissions
So, you’ve all recovered from Thanksgiving, right? You’ve eaten alllll the turkey, cleaned the candle wax off of the tablecloths, slept off the tryptophan coma, and gotten rid of any extremely large pumpkins you might have lying around (just my family? Really?). Good. Because guess what? As of yesterday, we’re so over that most autumnal of holidays, and we’re moving on to Christmas, whether you’re with us or not.
Here at CHHQ, I’ll be spending much of December with my DVD player as part of a Christmas film festival–comedies, dramas, classics, whatever. I’m not dissing Hanukkah or Kwanzaa here; it’s just that there are so many more Christmas films to contend with–if anybody feels strongly that I should sit through Eight Crazy Nights, now is the time to speak up, and I’ll add it to my list of possibilities. Anyway, the big question is: what to watch? If you’ve got a holiday movie I just can’t miss, let me know. Viewings and reviews begin next Friday, December 1.
November 27th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
The best overlooked Christmas movie is The Bishop’s Wife with Cary Grant as an angel visiting David Niven. (Was re-made as the much-inferior Preacher’s Wife with Denzel Washington.) If you haven’t seen it, drop it on your list; Who can argue with Christmas AND Cary Grant?
November 27th, 2006 at 1:41 pm
I am telling you, Gremlins is a Christmas movie.
November 27th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Definitely Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas. And I do agree with James.
November 27th, 2006 at 11:22 pm
Well, clearly the classics: White Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street and It’s a Wonderful Life, are all in order. I also very much enjoy Holiday Inn, even though that’s not so much a Christmas movie as it is a movie about a…well…holiday inn. Umm…movies to stay away from: Stepmom and The Family Stone. The previews say they are lighthearted holiday films. They are not. You will cry and cry and cry. I know this from experience. Oh, and I also recommend “The Office” Christmas party episode. and ummm…I know there are a ton of other films out there but that’s all I can think of right now.
November 28th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
It isn’t strictly speaking a movie, but Blackadder’s Christmas Carol is a favorite at our house.
December 1st, 2006 at 6:08 am
Christmas Vacation was always a good one in my book. Scrooged is also a good addition.