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Bud’s Top Ten of 2013, Oscar Picks & Home Video Delights!
What follows is a completely thought through and double checked top ten list for the year 2013 and, and, like those who write for Film Comment magazine, I usually don’t create this puppy until I have seen just about every movie which might, in fact, be good.
Here are the top ten, in no particular order: [Read on here…]
My Favorite Non-Christmas Christmas Films
Most film columnists start writing their Christmas pieces around August, churning out their memories of It’s a Wonderful Life (which is a story in itself – this generation has no idea that the film was considered an oddity and a flop until Jimmy Stewart mentioned it on The Tonight Show and, as it was in the public domain and available for cheap airings, it has since been considered a “classic”) and other routine movies that just happen to tell a Christmas like story. Movies like Miracle on 34th Street and Christmas in Connecticut still hold up and there are others I’m sure that do as well, but few movies that are singularly about Christmas float my boat. I’ve seen them a million times and most are creaky. Here are my favorite Christmas movies, a list my successful and thoughtful brother calls Christmas Movies for People Who Aren’t Enamored with Christmas Movies. [Read on here…]
- DVD
- Bluray Disc
- View from the Cheap Seats
- Bud Elder
- Twilight Time
- Olive Films
- Warner Archive
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Pocketful of Miracles
- Lady for a Day
- The Man Who Knew Too Much
- 3 Godfathers
- Comfort and Joy
- The Thin Man
- Gremlins
- The Digital Bits
- The Apartment
- The Show Around the Corner
- Popeye
- The Sting
- Robert Redford
- Mark Altman
- The Maltese Falcon
- The Black Bird
- Mary Hartman Mary Hartman
- Fernwood 2 Nite
- America 2 Nite
- The Way We Were
- Jayne Eyre
- Oliver!
- Royal Flash
- George Washington Slept Here
- Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
- The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
- The Horn Blows at Midnight
- Twilight's Last Gleaming
- A New Leaf
- The Bells of St Mary's
- Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
- Riot
- Darla Z's Christmas 'Round the World
- Sooners
- Sugar Bowl!