Quote: Shandonbelle @ 15th November 2017, 10:31 PMI watched that a couple of weeks ago, those two as a leading couple were MFEO (hee...)
Another sort of Christmassy film I like a lot is Falling in Love with De Niro and Streep, it starts and ends at Christmas time in New York, all roasted chestnuts and tinsel covered bookshops.
Ooh, how have I never seen that?
Quote: zooo @ 15th November 2017, 9:43 PMYes! (And You've Got Mail.)
Also Home Alone, Elf, and Scrooged.I kind of hate White Christmas, because while it might be a decent film there is NOTHING Christmassy in the whole thing until about the last 2 minutes. False advertising.
My Dad - a big Bing Crosby fan - always said that Holiday Inn was much better and I think it featured the song White Christmas first.
Quote: zooo @ 15th November 2017, 11:01 PM
Ooh, how have I never seen that?
It's very 80's, made around 1984, you should watch it for Streep's shoulder pads alone.
Watched the 1994 re-make of Miracle on 34th Street on Channel 4 this afternoon. The Richard Attenborough version. Not seen it before.
Much prefer the original 1947 version. Not surprised. Re-makes are rarely an improvement on the original.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Quote: Steve Sunshine @ 11th December 2022, 11:44 PMMonty Python and the Holy Grail
Christmas? Shouldn't that be the Life of Brian?
All good 1940s/early 1950s Christmas themed atmospheric/lfeel-good/comedy films, rarely, if ever, broadcast but worth seeking out:
The Shop Around the Corner with James Stewart
The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant & David Niven
We're no Angels with Humphrey Bogart & Peter Ustinov
Holiday Affair with Robert Mitchum & Janet Leigh
It happened on 5th Avenue with no-one I've ever heard of
Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck & Sydney Greenstreet
Shop around the Corner probably the best one there.
We're no Angels is pretty good. too.
Shall have to look out a couple of the others, though I find Robert Mitchum hard work.
Duh! Spiceworld. Masterpiece.
Wouldn't it be great to be the Virgin Mary? You could say, 'He's not a very naughty boy. He's the Messiah.'
Some people say the panto format is out of date. Oh no, it isn't.
Quote: Lazzard @ 16th December 2022, 1:27 PMShop around the Corner probably the best one there.
We're no Angels is pretty good. too.Shall have to look out a couple of the others, though I find Robert Mitchum hard work.
The Bishop's Wife definitely worth a watch. Well up there with It's A Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street (the 1947 version).
Quote: Lazzard @ 16th December 2022, 1:27 PM...................though I find Robert Mitchum hard work.
Well I like him, and he's made some great films. Will always watch anything he is in.
It's Barbara Stanwyck I can't stand.
I wouldn't sway it's the best ever Christmas movie ever, but Rare Exports, the Finnish horror film about Santa is very good, and a bit different from the usual Christmas movies. Tangerine is good too.
Alastair Sim's "Scrooge" for me. The best telling of that story ever, and one I never tire of watching
It's not actually a Christmas film per sé but it's got an angel and a harp in it and it's always shown in December on TPTV, This year The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp is on next Thursday 7 December at 11am.
As well as an angel and a harp, it features Felix Aylmer, Alfie Bass, David Kossoff and Harringay dog track {demolished in 1987 and replaced by a Sainsburys). What's not to like? At Christmas.
Trading Places or Bad Santa. Scrooge was good, but not as funny.