Heading To The North POLL ... It's the ILX Holiday Movies Poll Nominations Thread (Voting Starts: Nov. 21)

"Peace on Earth" (1939)
available to watch here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ekaww

The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
Krampus (2015)
"Thanksgiving" (2007) yourtub link

Pastebin running nominations: https://pastebin.com/TTHE25dG

I will freely admit that the ending of Scrooged still consistently makes me cry buckets

Mother’s Day
New Year’s Eve
Valentine’s Day

The Passion of the Christ

you and your pond

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
36.15 Pere Noel
Rare Exports
The Ref
A Very Harold & Kumr 3-D Christmas

Kumr is an app Kal Penn was developing at the White House iirc

Definitely voting in this to make sure Scrooged gets the highest possible placing.

The Last Waltz

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Ernest Saves Christmas
Call Me by Your Name
The Grinch (2018)

Planes Trains and Automobiles
The various Home Alones

Phantom Thread (Christmas and New Year's)

"Toy Tinkers" link
"Pluto's Christmas Tree" link

The only eligible Looney Tunes short is "Gift Wrapped", correct?

The Jazz Singer

not nominating the movie, but a good scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2YTR8NgogI

The only eligible Looney Tunes short is "Gift Wrapped", correct?

wait are shorts being counted? 1993 storms in with

A Junky's Christmas
(dir. Nick Donkin & Melodie McDaniel, p. Francis Ford Coppola)

Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life
(w/d. Peter Capaldi, s. Richard E. Grant, winner of best short at BAFTA Scotland 1993, Atlantic Film Award 1993, BAFTA 1994 and Oscar 1995)

I don’t object to shorts as long as it’s not to railroad in TV specials.

The Alastair Sim A Christmas Carol--growing up, on equal footing with It's a Wonderful Life in my family.

Adding a few more (some obvious):

The Family Stone
The Bishop's Wife
Christmas in Connecticut
Metropolitan
Remember the Night
Miracle on 34th Street
Holiday Inn

Metropolitan is a movie I've been wanting to watch again

A Junky's Christmas in a decent rip on youtube

Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life in a fairly murky TV -> VHS -> computer rip on youtube

Pieces of April

Irony of Fate/Enjoy Your Bath!

Joyeux Noël
2046

2046 " follows the aftermath of Chow Mo-wan's unconsummated affair with Su Li-zhen in 1960s Hong Kong but also includes some science fiction elements and makes frequent references to the date of December 24 or Christmas Eve, on which many significant events in the film occur.”

Addams Family Values

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

The Ice Storm

that film meant a lot to me

Le Père Noël est une ordure (Father Christmas Is a Shit)

^this was remade as the Steve Martin-Adam Sandler vehicle Mixed Nuts

Mon oncle Antoine

Thirding the hard-nomming for Scrooged. I was so 'ehh' about that movie for the longest time but at some point it clicked and then it clicked hard and now I kinda can't get through the season without watching it. I think 'asshole Bill Murray finding redemption via mystical means' might be my favorite microgenre.

The Insect's Christmas (1913)

All added.

(And added joke nominee New Year's Eve too because, hey, it actually counts!)

Technical question: are TV movies acceptable or are they gonna fall under the purview of next year's poll of holiday specials?

The Christmas Tree aka When Wolves Cry

😎

If it's feature length, go ahead. Or if it's a short that was primarily first played in theaters.

Okay then:

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
The House Without a Christmas Tree

And unless I'm forgetting some obvious examples, those two 50-year-old entries might comprise the entire corpus of worthwhile feature-length made-for-TV xmas movies.

Probably true.

Someone paste in the whole Lifetime and Hallmark oeuvres.

AKA cinematic xanax

Edward Scissorhands

I keep trying to think of movies to add to the nomination list and it seems we've already covered most of the important ones, and there aren't even 100 nominations yet.

So, yeah, if you have specific Hallmark channel favorites, have at it

Norte: The End of History

Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever

Santa Claus (1959)
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
The Santa Clause
Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Tokyo Godfathers
Santa Buddies

How about some Oscar winners?

Cavalcade (1933) starts and ends on New Year's
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Godfather Part II
Green Book

okay, a couple of corny ones i enjoyed:

The Holiday Calendar (the two leads are very cute)
Last Holiday (queen latifah!)

not necessarily because i like them

The Muppet Christmas Carol
Klaus (2019)
Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
White Christmas (Curtiz, 1954)
Babes in Toyland (1961)
Arthur Christmas
Christmas on Mars
Saving Christmas
Dekalog 3 but maybe this is more of a tv episode? idk

As I completely spaced out my Thursday-centric due dates, I am extending nomination period for at least another 12 to 24 hours.

(Gonna save the Dekalog ep for next year's poll.)

Also, I do believe it's Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas, which slots alphabetically right after King of Kings

8 Women

currently watching the recently resurfaced 1978 Canadian noir Silent Partner w/ Elliott Gould and Christopher Plummer, and fuck yes this qualifies

OK, nominations are closed, with 175 entries. Firing up the campaigning/voting thread imminently.

exclude everything where ppl said "I am not recommending this"

Did anyone say that explicitly?

(I probably did exclude in any case.)

VOTE: The POLLy and the Ivy ... It's the ILX Holiday Movies Poll Campaigning/Voting Thread (Voting Ends: Dec. 11)

id have unironically nominated carreys grinch

we're no angels

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/12/christmas-movies-hallmark-romantic-comedy/621045/