Happy POLLidays! (Happy POLLidays!) It's the ILX Holiday Movies Poll Results Thread

1. The Shop Around the Corner
2. Fanny & Alexander
3. It’s a Wonderful Life
4. Gremlins
5. Meet Me in St. Louis
6. Mon Oncle Antoine
7. Black Christmas
8. A Christmas Story
9. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
10. Gift Wrapped
11. Die Hard
12. Miracle on 34th Street (1945)
13. Remember the Night
14. Scrooged
15. The Bells of St. Mary’s

Thanks, Eric!

Yeah great poll, wish i'd had time to vote.

I saw Scrooged in a theater. I thought Murray's performance was just loud and annoying and the whole movie was like an SNL skit that went on f-o-r-e-v-e-r. And it had the usual Hollywood 30 minutes of "climax" where you knew it was the climax because it was twice as loud and annoying.

I think Comfort and Joy (Clemenza's #1) is a nice little movie with many funny moments. However, it is pretty slight overall and when it reaches for pathos it never gets there. But I didn't cast a ballot, so consider this post as mere sour grapes.

bold DNP

Black Christmas (1974)
Silent Partner (1978)
Mon oncle Antoine
Eyes Wide Shut
Brazil
Meet Me in St. Louis
Silent Night, Deadly Night
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Fanny and Alexander
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
A Christmas Tale (2008)
The Hudsucker Proxy
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

The Thin Man
Trading Places
Scrooged
Big Business (1929)
Compliments of the Season (1930)
The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives (1933)
Jack Frost (1934)
The Reckless Moment (1949)
La Grande Illusion (1937)
Bad Santa (2003)
La Petite Marchande d'Allumettes (1928)
Hell's Heroes (1930)
The Night Before Christmas (1933)
Holiday (1930)
Babes in Toyland (1934)
The Curse of the Cat People
Carol
Far From Heaven (2002)
Two Men in Manhattan
The Unholy Three (1925)
The Unholy Three (1930)
Little Women (1933)
Poisoned Ivory (1934)
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Die Hard

thx, j.lu, for the Edgar Kennedy

also shame on the rest of you:

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

^I think the best Xmas movie Leo McCarey worked on, but you fuckers didn't vote for The Bells of St Mary's either

I did!

u r absolved

It is Christmas Eve, so I have just rewatched The Thin Man. I stand by my first-place vote.

https://media.giphy.com/media/26gYYWkWBy2USzQXu/giphy.gif

If only there was a way for movies dr morbius likes to get voted for... if only....

I don't know when you last saw Comfort and Joy, aimless, but if it's been a while, I think you should look at it again. I think it's more profound than the work of some other much more famous directors whose profundity escapes me. (I have two in particular in mind, and no, I won't name them.)

Aimless I feel you re:Scrooged, that’s one that never clicked with me, despite a couple tries over the years

I tried to see Comfort and Joy for this poll, but it wasn’t available via any of my streaming services or libraries.

I liked Scrooged better as a Christmas horror film than as a Christmas comedy. Voted for it mainly on the strength of some indelible images and a strong cast.

Yeah, I think it's hard to get hold of--all I can see is Region 2 stuff from Amazon. Did find this appreciation:

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/dec/06/jonathan-coe-comfort-joy-forsyth

HOME ALONE: Two-thirds of this is a modest, sweet, surprisingly affecting Christmas movie. One of third it is Tom & Jerry's Straw Dogs, and it is really impossible to express how fucking weird that is.

— The Zack of Christmas Yet To Come (@zhandlen) December 8, 2019

Yeah I watched it last night and was roaring at the pay-off then I missed Tom and Jerry

yeah catherine ohara really is phenomenal in HA1, low-key one of her best performances imo

tried to see Comfort and Joy for this poll, but it wasn’t available via any of my streaming services or libraries.

Watching it on Hoopla rn (apparently from a pan & scan NTSC-converted VHS transfer)

thank you Eric! I enjoyed seeing the results

and Pillbox!

Watched Elf again on Christmas eve with my family. There are a lot of good lines, and I always like “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" at the end

I had a "no Elf, no Home Alone" rule this year. I like Elf but not enough for it to be an annual tradition.

the narwhal's sad-voiced "bye buddy, hope you find your dad" is my new favorite line from Elf

didn't remember until seeing it again that "Baby It's Cold Outside" features in a scene

My Night at Maud’s
Carol
La Grande illusion
Fanny and Alexander
Tangerine

2046
The Apartment
Eyes Wide Shut
The Shop Around the Corner
Far From Heaven

Call Me By Your Name
Boogie Nights
The Ice Storm
A Tale of Winter
Hannah and Her Sisters

It’s a Wonderful Life
Metropolitan
Phantom Thread
Holiday (1938)
Mon Oncle Antoine

LA Confidential
Joyeux Noël
A Christmas Tale
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Elf

Dan S: Does Boogie Nights have anything Christmas-related? There's the big New Year's Eve sequence ("Goodbye '70s, Hello '80s"), but I've seen it a bunch of times and I'm not remembering anything having to do with Christmas.

agree it's not really a holiday film. what I remember besides the New Year's Eve party scene is the donut shop shoot-out scene where Don Cheadle gets an unexpected Christmas gift

Forgot about that, you're right.

Those who didn't vibe with Scrooged: try again. I wasn't that into it for the longest time but now I don't go a holiday season without rewatching it.

Just finished watching Wonderful Life in its entirety for the first time in many years. I might agree with its placing here. It seems to have become more affecting in my dotage.

Forgot to share the full results spreadsheet:

https://bit.ly/37myWBZ

If it had been a top 50...

41. Remember the Night
42. Female Trouble
43. Blast of Silence
44. 2046
45. Krampus (2015)
46. A Junky's Christmas
47. Home for the Holidays
48. A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas
49. Call Me by Your Name
50. Inside (2007)

Goddamnit...how did I forget that Cobra is a Christmas movie?