Christmas Movies - S/D

er, star wars.

Destroy:
The Preacher's Wife -- abominable modern remake w/Whitney Houston

Come to think about it, why did people have beef with anyone doing that? Sweets that make you fly are cool.

EMMITT OTTER'S JUGBAND XMAS

Check out the fantastic The Holly and the Ivy, esp. if your Christmases are rife with family drama.

better off dead

Roxy - yes!

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/bestselling-movies-2006/2900-1.jpg

i will be watching _white christmas_ for the 3rd year running, if only for the "sisters" duet and the song about snow.

I was reminicing a couple days ago about my familes old Christmas VHS tape with all classics we had taped from TV
I was trying to remember this song
Also on the tape was Mickey's Christmas Carol, Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, Donald Duck's Snowball War...

okay 1 more link.
The best scene from the aforementioned Scrooge
merrrrry christmas everyone

bumper-to-bumper, the avenue's packed...

I want to watch a Christmas movie.. what should I watch this year?

I've taken a real shine to Elf over the past couple Christmases. Beware the Zooey Deschanel, tho!

What's the one with the guy and the ice hockey and he nearly ruins Christmas but he doesn't and he saves the day?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmPgWz85Us0

Santa With Muscles was executive produced by Jordan Belfort O_O

Search: The Family Stone
Destroy: Love the Coopers

I sincerely want Krampus tp be good enough to join the pantheon.

How many are there this year? At least three high profile-ish ones.

I'm not the biggest fan of Rogen & Co. in general, but that The Night Before movie looked exceptionally LCD based on the commercial I saw.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_Murray_Christmas

I'm not the biggest fan of Rogen & Co. in general, but that The Night Before movie looked exceptionally LCD based on the commercial I saw.

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waiting for christian actors to make yom kippur comedy

The chosen people have a storied history of creating holiday entertainment for the gentiles.

"the gentiles"

Aka "suckers"

I want to try and watch a Christmas movie every day in december, like an advent thing.

Anyone recommend some obscure ones? Don't mind if they're not entirely based around Christmas, at least set at the same time will do.

I see no-one's mentioned Britcom Nativity! yet in this thread. Not obscure exactly, but well worth watching. Probably my second favourite Christmas film after Elf, in fact.

Someone on Letterboxd has compiled an exhaustive list of Christmas movies that is currently 1512 titles long.

Just looking at the 112 films on the list that I have apparently seen, some of these are really iffy--like, I'm sure there actually are Christmas-set scenes in The Godfather, Annie Hall, Metropolitan, Clueless and Grand Illusion, but a) damned if I can remember most of them, and b) you'd hardly call them Christmas movies on the basis of these scenes.

Anyway, my recommendation (on this list, and not yet mentioned here) would be Mon Oncle Antoine, a lovely Quebecois coming-of-age film from 1971. My assumption would be that it is not as well regarded elsewhere as it is here in Canada, but it is in the Criterion Collection and in Roger Ebert's "The Great Movies" series. Set entirely around Christmas--the main action climaxes on Christmas Eve, as I recall--and even if its not a Christmas Movie in the It's a Wonderful Life/Christmas Vacation sense, it has a very distinctly wintery vibe that should fit the bill.

My personal favorite Christmas-adjacent movies and TV: The Thin Man, Scrooged, Bad Santa (destroy with extreme prejudice Bad Santa 2), and Hogfather.

I've got a DVD compiling several silent-era Christmas shorts, but I put it on in the background the last time I hosted Christmas, rather than watch it. That day I was amused, or something, to find the Applegate Bacon Yule Log playing on my cable provider's public access channel.

GetTV used to rerun Johnny Staccato; I'd like to see the episode "The Unwise Men" again.

A local theater is showing a back-to-back double feature of White Christmas and Black Christmas on 12/24 and I really wish I could go

S:

Le père Noël est une ordure

Has ILX ever done a ballot poll on holiday movies?

idk but can we do a new one please please please

pleeeeeeeeease

wondering what would win

Christmas in Connecticut

bad Santa

this looks like the only Christmas-adjacent movie poll: Better Christmas Movie: Die Hard or Some Other Movie

I'll corral a ballot poll if there's interest.

Will you wear a Grinch costume while doing so? :D

I’m also fine organizing a poll

Christmas in Connecticut

I'm rather amused by internet wrangling as to what qualifies as a Christmas movie. I'd be willing to contribute nominations and a ballot.

staying away from the North Poll

ugh can we add a disclaimer that there will BE no arguing about what constitutes a christmas movie

Okay, but we're going to need a definite decision on TV series episodes, music videos, and online original content.

I have a cousin whose house we would visit every Christmas Eve when he and I and would retire to the basement during the lull in family time to watch things he had been discovering like Dolemite movies -this is basically his job nowadays-so in some way I have an expanded view of what an Xmas movie is which I will try not to foist upon the thread.

I don’t have any objections to wrapping up other (visual) media into the mix

It'll be a long lead, but I'll spearhead this poll after Halloween wraps, with results unfurled just before Xmas.

love christmas in connecticut, disappointed that morrissey likes it tho

Channel 50 on freeview is already showing 24/7 Christmas movies and have been for 3 weeks. But they are nothing you've ever heard of but are mostly cheap American TV movies. Christmas Oranges. Santa's Boot Camp. Twelve Dogs Of Christmas. Elf-man.

I like the idea of making TV specials eligible. The Rankin/Bass Rudolph and Frosty specials are as canonical at this point as It's a Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th Street. Individual Christmas episodes of TV series might be a bit trickier, but I'll be interested to see what people will nominate (trying to think of great Christmas episodes of shows right now and I'm not coming up with much; I suppose the original Simpsons Christmas special is important, but I don't think its a particularly great episode of the show).

Other visual media? Not sure what else is popular. Maybe the Bowie/Crosby music video?

yeah tv specials & tv movies should count
i dunno about music videos tho, that might muddy the waters

Maybe the Bowie/Crosby music video?

Strictly speaking, that's an excerpt from a TV special. But delving into the many covers of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," for example, could be daunting.

Another question likely to arise: How strictly are we defining "Christmas" (and would the Star Wars Holiday Special be eligible)?

ctrl+f itt for Psycho = 0 results? Mad, yo.

trying to think of great Christmas episodes of shows right now and I'm not coming up with much

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Characters_in_Search_of_an_Exit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_of_the_Meek
https://cheers.fandom.com/wiki/Where_There%27s_A_Will...

and I don't really like Seinfeld but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strike_(Seinfeld)

I would also def vote for a Very Murray Christmas

Just saw a pretty dece Christmas episode the other day. Probably good for fucking up your young children, if you're into that sort of thing.

you all probably need to see the Jack Benny TV ep where he goes Christmas shopping

there is a fatality

Inclined to say yea on Christmas specials (even from series, a la Pee-Wee's Christmas Special, which was primetime instead of running Saturday morning), and nay on regular-season Christmas-themed episodes.

how arbitrary

lawyerin' up for camp

if I can vote for My Night at Maud's I'm ok with any Christmas poll

Why not? I’ll probably vote for Mon Oncle Antoine.

Come to think of it, for me Odd Man Out is a kind of Christmas movie, no joke, because I first saw it over Xmas break and it has snow in it.

I have like several hundred xmas movies and specials on a dedicated drive so I look forward to contributing hella noms if this gets off the ground.

Never a bad time to dredge up this jaw-dropping turd again:

https://youtu.be/E6grWQ55VAI

I liked the X-Files Christmas episode with Lily Tomlin as a ghost.

And the Veronica Mars Christmas episode may have been the high point of the entire show.

If we are talking TV show episodes, there is one from The Mary Tyler Moore Show that is all-time.

Pee Wee Christmas Special is fantastic. The Del Rubio Triplets!

what about the original concept, Christmas movies

is that where M has to work? xxp

Yes

losing interest

One year my I watched a Space Ghost Christmas episode with my mom and sister. They still talk about it and imitate Brak singing 12 days of Christmas.

Wherever possible we MUST include Youtube (or other) links with our nominations, so other people can be traumatized inspired by our examples.

Me, I’m gaining interest. Turns out that that episode of MTM was a sequel of sorts to an episode of That Girl.

separate film/TV polls? anything to make Eric work harder

Was thinking the same thing

lol

if I can vote for My Night at Maud's I'm ok with any Christmas poll

I reserve the right to nominate Two Men in Manhattan, so you're all right with me.

if I can vote for My Night at Maud's I'm ok with any Christmas poll

I reserve the right to nominate Two Men in Manhattan, so you're all right with me.

want to see Two Men in Manhattan, haven't yet watched any of Melville's movies

If you have access to the Criterion Channel, they've got the complete Melville right now.

will see them

my favorite fandom wiki
https://christmas-specials.fandom.com

annual polls: Christmas movies one year, Christmas specials another, Christmas episodes of TV a third.

don't care about tv specials or episodes sorry, if this isn't a poll of movies I'm not interested

the lemon drop kid would be high on my list. bob hope owes money to the mob. he pretends to be a salvation army santa to get the money. when the cops catch on, he invents a retirement home charity and kidnaps people from a nursing home to get it licensed.

*story by Damon Runyon

have never seen it

sorry don't mean to be harsh, I'll vote in whatever is put together

no it's definitely dumb to mix variety shows into narrative films

a runoff poll can happen in the fourth year though!

for the family:
The Snowman
Mickey’s Christmas Carol

for the old-timers:
Bad Santa
Die Hard
Trading Places
Lethal Weapon

Going to let a poll settle the focus of the ballot poll: Holiday Movies (and more?) POLL, Preliminary Question -- What To Include?

you all probably need to see the Jack Benny TV ep where he goes Christmas shopping

there is a fatality

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, October 4, 2019 4:51 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ho. Ho. Ho. Not just a fatality, an implied suicide. Merry Christmas!

Sorry, Lubitsch, but a messier modern wonder just knocked you off the top.

A Christmas Tale is so phenomenal. It's at the top of my list too, tho a rewatch of Gremlins pushed that one into the upper echelon alongside it.

Breaking your list into the Soto hierarchy

Good To Great
A Christmas Tale
It’s a Wonderful Life
Gremlins
Black Christmas
Curse of the Cat People
Meet Me in St. Louis
Fanny and Alexander

Sound, Solid
A Christmas Story
Metropolitan
Carol
The Apartment
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Grand Illusion
Hannah and Her Sisters

Meh
Home for the Holidays
Tim Burton’s the Nightmare Before Christmas
Diner
A Christmas Carol '51

The Hague
Miracle on 34th Street
2046

christmas carol ‘51 is a great film, really the only version of the story i can imagine wanting to watch of my own volition.

I'd pump up 2046, of course, and Home for the Holidays has such an anxious core that in its way is the most authentic response to dealing with family.

ugh black xmas is so good

Admittedly I've only watched 2046 the once. I barely remember it as a holiday movie.

Blast of Silence is the one that I've most cottoned to during the pandemic.

Revisited Christmas in Connecticut this year and it didnt disappoint, Sydney Greenstreet and Una O'Connor both deliver quality laffs. Skimming the wiki, I hadnt previously known that it was remade for TV in 1992, the one and only directorial outing of an obscure Austrian filmmaker named... Arnold Schwarzenegger. WTF??

I thought he also directed a Tales from the Crypt?

wow youre right! featuring william hickey apparently. i wonder if they got along.

My big xmas discoveries of the year were Holiday Affair and Miracle on 34th St. and especially Remember the Night and The Thin Man. I also saw Christmas in Connecticut for the first time and it was cute but didn't blow me away. And some very good movies (Meet John Doe and It Happened on 5th Avenue) that have been advertised as xmas movies but were mostly only tangentially so.

Oh, also saw Curse if the Cat People for the first time! Also magnificent!

Wait wait wait, between its absence from these new lists and the results of the holiday movie poll, I'm wondering...do y'all not rate Remember the Night? Preston Sturges! Stanwyck and MacMurray! Beulah Bondi! It's genuinely affecting! And really really good!

Solid!

I watched that for the first time this year too & was similarly blown away, it went right into my top tier of xmas movies. almost certain i remember morbs speaking kindly of it once or twice over the years.

I'll probably watch it but who knows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnIqei8unWA

Is Blast of Silence an Xmas movie, have yet to see it. I loved Christmas in Connecticut when I first discovered it, then was disappointed to be unable to find anyone that rated it apart from Morrissey. Trying to remember the name of the New Orleans noir with Gene Kelly and Deanna Durbin, maybe I already posted upthread.

Christmas Holiday, by Robert Siodmak. Recommended.

I see that I went and saw because Dr. Morbius tipped me off: Film noir: your favourites.

Is Blast of Silence an Xmas movie, have yet to see it.

Set in NYC during the holidays. Your definition of "Xmas movie" may vary.

home for the holidays is a thanksgiving movie

I saw Christmas Evil a few weeks ago. what a fantastic yet fucked up Xmas horror

otm

i was expecting it to be good ol' slasher-kitsch fun like Silent Night Deadly Night (which I love), but its sooo much weirder than that

I might give that one a little watch tomorrow evening after my hubs goes to bed.

home for the holidays is a thanksgiving movie

― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson),

I'm not a stickler for this because people eating turkey in a formal setting is exceedingly strange to me.

What about eating sushi on the toilet?

Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around The Corner is a romantic comedy/christmas movie 4 life.

I can't even.

I didn't realize until I watched it for the first time last night, but the conclusion of Pandora's Box takes place on Christmas Eve. I'm not a particular fan of silent movies but I recommend this if you're living destitute in an attic with broken windows and snow coming in, and you need some cheer.

watched Last Christmas which was on BBC2 a couple of days ago and it was ok. nice shots of christmassy london but perhaps a too much Wham on the soundtrack.

interestingly the script was by emma thompson and bryony kimmings.

It's supposed to be a George Michael jukebox musical tho I agree that aspect kinda goes under the radar for much of it.

music seemed unconnected to the action, felt more like they'd licenced the title track and got a job lot of others thrown in.

scrooged holds up p well imo

“most of these are towels”

what the hell

David Johansen's New York Dolls bandmate Arthur Kane was sent into a jealous rage after seeing Johansen's prominent role in Scrooged. Kane reacted by beating his wife, and attempting suicide by jumping from a third-story window

wth, indeed. Had he missed the previous half decade's inexplicable love affair with Buster Poindexter?

But yes, holds up very well. We try to watch it every year.

The Good The Bad and The Ugly works as Xmas movie

Destroy: Mixed Nuts, which I watched yesterday. Doubt it was ever good but the trans jokes tank it today.

Search: Cash on Demand; 8 Women

Cash On Demand is so great.

daughter has decided that our Christmas Day movie this year will be As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty. guessing there may be Christmas content somewhere in the 288 minute runtime.

For a second I thought you said Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time.

Watched Home Alone 2, a bit crappier than I remember but at the end when Buzz tries to whistle and fails and makes a farty noise out instead, I kinda exploded.

and then years later, that actor tried to strangle his girlfriend (and thankfully failed)

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/23/leave-elf-on-the-shelf-why-carol-should-be-at-the-top-of-everyones-christmas-movie-list

I actually really liked this film! my GF still gives me shit about it...

Carol? who doesn't like that film?

I liked it a lot but didn't quite love it, the soundtrack is extremely well-researched and curated though.

xpost she just thought it was a weird "andy movie" and also the theater was fucking freezing when we saw it

I thought it was just fine when it was new but I kinda wanna see it again.

a must for sophisticated festive film fans

Yeah, but who wants to be that?

I do agree that Elf's entry into the Christmas canon must be opposed

Will Farrell is painfully unfunny.

Does anyone know where to find all the creepy BBC Xmas ghost movies? Like "Whistle and I'll Come to You" etc?

I know some are on youtube but I wondered if they were collected on one of the streaming svcs

bfi player?

they are there but given how you spell theatre it may be region blocked

BFI Player films are not available to watch in the US.

the war ended in 1815 but they just won't let it go

There is a BFI Player thingie you can subscribe to in the US

Looks like they're all on youtube - at least the 1971-78 run

BFI Player Classics. Don't think it has everything though.

You can watch GET SANTA if you want.

i never watched Christmas Vacation all the way through until this year! loved vacation (still do) but this always seemed like a shadow of that

first part always annoyed me & i’d turn it off bc it was just clark getting hit with ladders & floorboards

but once they do xmas eve dinner it definitely got WAY more enjoyable for me
i had a good time!

NUTCRACKER on Hulu is kinda nice imo?

Directed by David Gordon Green, stars Ben Stiller & four irl kid brothers (who feel like alternate universe Hanson brothers)

Has the vibes of an old DGG indie, like Undertow & George Washington, but put through a lighter feelgood filter - and Stiller does what he does best - uptight guy in a weird setting trying to pretend his uptightness is fine

idk i was pleasantly surprised by how not-terrible it was & the kids are cool