"White Christmas"

[sergebroom]

Yesterday evening, my wife and I began the Season's movie-watching. The opening salvo was 1954's White Christmas.

"Many men have tried to split us up, but no one can
Lord help the mister who comes between me and my sister
And Lord help the sister, who comes between me and my man."

Next on our list? Alastair Sim's Christmas Carol... Frederic Back's animated short Crac... Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer even though Santa is show to be a jerk... Mark Morris's The Hard Nut... Don Siegel's short film A Star in the Night... The grand finale will of course be Charlie Brown's Christmas Special...

Somewhere in there, while my wife isn't around, I'll sneak in Blackadder's Christmas Carol and Matt Groening's Olive the Other Reindeer. Maybe It's A wonderful Life, in which a man bitter at Life's opportunities having passed him by is contemplating suicide on Christmas Eve.

Comments

[mkhobson.livejournal.com]

I always get "White Christmas" confused with "Holiday Inn", the one with the big creepy blackface musical number. Ick.

"White Christmas" is OK. I've always been partial to "Miracle on 34th Street," m'self.

[readinggeek451]

No Grinch?! Heretic.

[jongibbs.livejournal.com]

I do like Alistair Sim's Scrooge. Patrick Stewart did a pretty good job too, though my favorite version is the Muppet one :)