I like various versions of A Christmas Carol. This holiday weekend, since I’m home alone, I’m having a marathon. I watched the Reginald Owen and Muppet versions last night, and the Hicks, Sim, and Finney versions so far today. I’m taking a break from it right now, but will go on to Scott and Stewart tonight or tomorrow.
My question for this holiday season is ‘Which is the creepiest Tiny Tim?’
I also like the MST3K episode of “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” to put me in holiday mood.
Meet John Doe (1941), with Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper and Edward Arnold.
Christmas in Connecticut (1945), with BS, singing CPO Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, and Cuddles Szakall.
New favorite this year. I’d forgotten The Shop Around the Corner (1940) had a Christmas theme. Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan are Hungarians (??!!?!) who fall in love working in a luggage shop during the holiday rush. A real sweetheart of a picture, folks. The Wizard of Oz owns the store, and the smartass messenger boy is the baritone sax player from Strike Up the Band.
TCM followed Shop Around… with a b&w 1932 Merrie Melodie cartoon called The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives – so clever, heartfelt and unaffected even my cartoon-hating parents were tittering in glee. Best stocking stuffer I’ve gotten this year. Press the link and you can have it too.
Whoops - pay site. Try here. Colorized, but hey, it’s free.
This guy, by a factor too high to compute.
Last night, we all gathered around the electronic audio/visual input device and watched a genteel, wholesome movie for the first time ( for the kids, anyway ) that is destined to become a new tradition.
We watched “Animal House”.
I tell you, the Holidays will never be the same. I’m a zit- get it? 
Cartooniverse
Christmas in Connecticut
It’s a Wonderful Life
When Harry Met Sally
The Princess Bride
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
I will also add The Shop Around the Corner, my wife has a version she taped off of Hungarian TV that i like a lot.
My family watches The Hunt For Red October every Christmas (and Thanksgiving for that matter). My grandfather wore out his VHS copy so we bought him the DVD a couple of years ago. He loves that movie.
My own personal favorites include A Chistmas Story and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. I love the Abominable Snowman. He kills me.
Love Actually.
More traditional ones are Holiday Inn and White Christmas and Bells Are Ringing–I loves me some Bing Crosby this time of year.
And the Peanuts–I missed it this year, and couldn’t find it in the store. Wah!
The Godfather - hey, it’s a movie about family, right?
A Christmas Story
Sister! This is one of my holiday traditions.
“Big John Call IS Santa Claus in 'O Little Town of Deathlehem!”
Hooray for Santy Claus!
Life and Adventures of Santa Claus—aka “Hobbit Claus,” in our house. A Rankin-Bass adaption of an L. Frank Baum story.
It has Samurai, good guys actually killing villains onscreen, and it’s a musical.
Yeah.
That, and I try to catch Nutcracker: The Motion Picture whenever I can—which works out to about every other year. If I’m lucky.
With the Christmas-Carolathon, I didn’t get to this until yesterday afternoon–but, as per long-standing tradition, sang cheerfully along to “Let’s All Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas”:
“I got the word that Santa has been stealing from the till.
I think that that right jolly old Elf bet-ter make out his will!”
I don’t watch Christmas movies if I can help it.
For years, my only exception was the George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol . Lately, I’ve added another version of A Christmas Carol , because Jane Krakowski is incredibly beautiful, incredibly talented and just absolutely steals the show with her performance as The Ghost of Christmas Past.
Throw in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, and that’s the perfect evening. Whenever I come across Scrooged while changing channels, I am unable to stop watching it. One of my favorites.
Dawn of the Dead
Shawn of the Dead
I really don’t like christmas, can you tell?
Did you work for programming at the Independent Film Channel a couple of years ago- because the Christmas Day theme was “Christmas with Cronenberg”.
:eek:
Yentl.
Seriously.
That is a really good flick, but come on! The best line from it *has to be *:
"Gee Ricky, I’m really sorry your mom’s face blew up!"
Christmas Vacation and Scrooged are my favorite xmas flicks!
I am a big fan of Claymation Christmas. The Carol of the Bells sequence cracks me up every time.
