Home Alone 1 & 2
ELF - i absolutely love this film
Die Hard
Jingle all the Way - Another firm fave
Sound of Music (well it's always on at Xmas and i always watch it lol )
Gremlins
Scrooged (with Bill Murray)
The Santa Clause movies - great fun
Nativity 2 is jumping to my first favourite Christmas film - Going to see it again tomorrow for the 2nd time, really loved it - even more than the first and I love that too
Holiday In Handcuffs was surprisingly good too. Didn't expect to enjoy it after recording it during the early hours of Christmas Eve last year but it was really really good!
I do have a Xmas Film collection but I must admit I do prefer the TV show specials - like Father Ted, Gavin And Stacey, Outnumbered, Friends, Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em, Miranda, Victoria Wood, the Simon Nye pantos etc etc
Jack Frost. My favourite film ever, even though I know it's not very popular elsewhere.
I'm not much of a film fan though - festive ones or otherwise. There's only a handful I can really sit through. I watch Jack Frost a few times during the year though.
To mix things up I've watched some Xmas films set in wartime this week, including 'Joyeux Noel', 'A Midnight Clear'(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RcLFX5Ymac), and 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence'(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0OS-kZiUD8). The former's the most outright seasonal throughout, not least in its depiction of the real-life truce observed in the trenches on 25th December 1914. 'A Midnight Clear' features Christmas in the heart of its runtime, and otherwise the snowy setting keeps things appropriately wintry for December viewing. The Bowie film only features Christmas towards the end, but it can be refreshing to see something that hovers around the most special time of year, as opposed to wallowing in it bathetically for two hours.
My personal favourite is probably 'Comfort and Joy'(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsw1I15Fj9I), which in its sardonic trip through a 1980s Christmas in Britain is like an antidote to the emotional overspill of something like 'Love Actually'. The ice cream wars are used as an irreverent backdrop for a wryly comic tale of romantic woe, familial strife, and violently territorial gelato makers.
And I see 'The Ref' is also on Youtube(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th9YhAva0Ss), so that'll be the next yuletide movie I catch. It's a movie with Kevin Spacey made in 1994, so it should be one of his more vintage performances compared to the perfunctory turns he's contributed recently.
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Home Alone 1 & 2
ELF - i absolutely love this film
Die Hard
Jingle all the Way - Another firm fave
Sound of Music (well it's always on at Xmas and i always watch it lol )
Gremlins
Scrooged (with Bill Murray)
The Santa Clause movies - great fun
Elf.
The nightmare before christmas
Scrooged
A Christmas Memory
Love Actually
I love that film
I loved Nativity 2 as well
A Christmas Carol / Scrooge
It's A Wonderful Life
I'm not much of a film fan though - festive ones or otherwise. There's only a handful I can really sit through. I watch Jack Frost a few times during the year though.
i tell a lie. I always watch the B&W "Miracle on 34th Street" as well
5th. The Polar Express. - just delightful and heartwarming.
4th. Miracle on 34th Street. - original not the Attenborough remake
3rd. Scrooge - Alastair Sim is just fantastic
2nd. Wizard of Oz - Nor a Christmas film as such but always associate it with Christmas
1st. It's a Wonderful Life. - one of the greatest films of all time. Makes me cry and feel good at the same time.
My personal favourite is probably 'Comfort and Joy'(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsw1I15Fj9I), which in its sardonic trip through a 1980s Christmas in Britain is like an antidote to the emotional overspill of something like 'Love Actually'. The ice cream wars are used as an irreverent backdrop for a wryly comic tale of romantic woe, familial strife, and violently territorial gelato makers.
And I see 'The Ref' is also on Youtube(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th9YhAva0Ss), so that'll be the next yuletide movie I catch. It's a movie with Kevin Spacey made in 1994, so it should be one of his more vintage performances compared to the perfunctory turns he's contributed recently.