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

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!)

Haven't seen them but know that they're appreciate in some quarters:

Jingle All the Way
Home for the Holidays

Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County
Blood Freak

I'm glad that Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever and The Godfather Part II are in the same genre.

Krisha

xpost I don't know that I'd call 'films where Robert DeNiro portrays a younger iteration of the titular protagonist' a genre per se.

you got me, i looked it up

I thought of the first Godfather--Michael and Kay walking along the street after seeing The Bells of St. Mary's--but it seemed like a stretch.

they buy presents also, but let's indeed cut the crap

https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/11-best-incidental-christmas-movies-article-1.2905317

(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/