Which films will you be watching this festive season? It's the first of Advent on Sunday so the proper countdown begins then so it's OK to watch seasonal flicks!
Maybe Scrooge, Scrooged, Elf, It's a Wonderful Life, the Grinch, Die Hard, Black Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street, Home Alone, Whistle Down the Wind, the Snowman, Father Christmas. Wow! So many!
I particularly like William Shatner's Christmas Horror Story set in Bailey Downs. Bill gets merry on egg nog on air. It's great!
So what will you be watching readers?
I'd love to rewatch Rare Exports by Jalmari Helander, it's been a while. Something different!
ReplyDeleteYes, what a film. And you told me about it all those years ago Arto!
DeleteThere are a few films we usually watch together as a family during the holidays. I'd say White Christmas, Peanuts classics, the original Grinch, Rudolph, The Year Without a Santa Claus (Heat Miser and Cold Miser), While You Were Sleeping, and The Nutcracker (either the performance from my kid's ballet school or 1977 Baryshnikov). Along with some classics that have become a tradition for us: The Glass Slipper, An American in Paris, Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder). That sort of thing. I'll have to look up Shatner's film, I'm a fan!
ReplyDeleteShatner's flick is a good one Baron, like an Amicus portmanteau. Love yourist and the Gene Wilder Wonka is the best!
DeleteAh, Christmas Classics! Here’s my Top Holiday films, fresh from the golden days of the Kiddie Matinee:
ReplyDeleteSanta Claus (1960) the Mexican one
Puss ‘n Boots (1963) the Mexican one
The Queen’s Swordsman (1964)
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
Magic Christmas Tree (1964)
Little Red Riding Hood and the Monsters (1965)
Mad Monster Party? (1967)
Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972)
I am proud to say that I have never seen Its a Wonderful Life, and never will!
Ho Ho Ho!
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Ha ha, you know what you like SF! What a list! Not seen a one except for Mad Monster Party! You're a connoisseur!
DeleteI found a copy of the Rankin Bass Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer.
ReplyDeleteSo, together with ALL the Wallace and Gromit films (including the most recent, as yet unseen by us) the Missus and I will be having a very animated Christmas!
Wallace and Grommet started out from my home town of Preston Looey. Fabulous films. Long live claymation. For me It started with Morph. Trap Door another brilliantly funny claymation tv series. Seen that?
DeleteNo, I had to google it. The character looks to have googley eyes too!
ReplyDelete(As an aside, I'm using googley eyes from the local $2 shop, for 1/3 scale wrist watch crystals for my puppets!)
Cool. You making progress?
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