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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!
Ladyhawke tonight in L.A., Metallica, Nurse Jackie: S5, new Bogart BD box from WHV & more
Afternoon, folks! Hope you’re all having a great start to your Thanksgiving holiday. I know from e-mails that a lot of you are headed out to the movies in between shopping and Thanksgiving preparations. Thor: The Dark World and Hunger Games: Catching Fire seem to be big draws. I’ve seen the latter and it’s pretty decent. If you like the first one, you’ll enjoy this one too.
For those of you in the L.A. area tonight, don’t forget that that screening of Ladyhawke at the Arclight is tonight at 7:30 PM, with Q&A to follow with director Richard Donner and producer Lauren Shuler Donner, moderated by our good friend Cliff Stephenson. Tickets are still available here, but remember to plan a little extra travel time to get there – the President’s in town apparently, so there may be unexpected traffic delays. [Read on here…]
- Gold Box Deal of the Day
- Black Friday Deals Week
- Criterion
- Black Friday
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Bluray Disc
- The Criterion Collection
- Amazon
- Metallica: Through the Never
- Ladyhawke
- Arclight
- Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman
- Scanners II
- Scanners III
- Scream Factory
- Tim Salmons
- Nurse Jackie: Season Five
- The Best of Bogart
- The Maltese Falcon
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Casablanca
- The African Queen
- The Man from UNCLE