The old
Love, Actually debate cropped up on my Twitter timeline this morning, which made me start a list of the movies I
must watch each Christmas. There are plenty of others I like, or even love, but these are my top ten that make Christmas complete. (I think. I feel like I'm forgetting something. What am I forgetting?) The order is alphabetical; if it were by preference,
White Christmas would be first, but after that I don't want to try to rank them. What are yours?
- A Charlie Brown Christmas
- Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
- Goodfellas
- The Holiday
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (The original. Don't come near me with that new abomination.)
- Little Women
- Love, Actually
- The Muppet Christmas Carol
- The Nutcracker (Baryshnikov)
- White Christmas
EDITED TO ADD: I can't believe I forgot
You've Got Mail!
I love the Mr. Magoo version of A Christmas Carol, and I always try to watch "The Trouble with Angels" starring Haley Mills and Rosalind Russell at Christmas.
ReplyDeleteI find the (old school) Grinch and Charlie Brown Christmas to be essential Christmas viewing as well as Love, Actually. Evidently am a sucker for almost any version of A Christmas Carol. That's right, I'll watch the stupidest, most god-awful version of anything that approximates A Christmas Carol. This is an embarrassing flaw in my character that I'm still coming to terms with.
ReplyDeleteLittle Women - both the new, post-modern feminist version with Gabriel Byrne, and the old one with Katherine Hepburn. Scrooge with Alastair Sim. The Muppet Family Christmas - the original, unedited version, that I still have recorded on a VHS tape with the commercials "paused" out, not the shortened DVD version that Disney released which is a lame travesty.
ReplyDeleteI love Muppet Family Christmas as well! But I no longer have a VCR, so I'm stuck with the DVD version.
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