tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post3127405794555853723..comments2024-01-08T19:49:13.932+00:00Comments on Froogville: Film List - this year's Christmas plansFrooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06738623732860210935noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post-80447830945726386922010-11-29T01:26:56.446+00:002010-11-29T01:26:56.446+00:00Hmm, Holiday Inn is a tempting possibility, HF.
I...Hmm, <i>Holiday Inn</i> is a tempting possibility, HF.<br /><br />I noticed a little while ago that comedy drama <i>The Family Stone</i> (I don't even remember buying this; suspect it may be one I inherited from a departing friend) had a Christmas setting, so deferred watching that until the end of the year.<br /><br />However, for me the Christmas movie festival is really more about trying to recreate my childhood memories of watching a lot of movies at Christmas. And in England we tend to be a bit disdainful of holiday-themed movies: most of them are pretty terrible. The BBC, in particular, used to go movie-crazy at Christmas, usually having at least one major first-run film on BBC1 each day for 8 or 10 days, and 2 or 3 well-loved classics. BBC2 tended to go more for themed seasons: a Billy Wilder film - or two - every day throughout the holiday, for example. And in the mornings, on either channel or both, they'd usually go through a lot of old black-and-white stuff... so you could catch up on Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, the Marx Brothers. Great days! I get quite misty-eyed just writing about it.<br /><br />Overall, though, the emphasis is simply on <i>good</i> movies. And the ones I choose are quite likely to be predominantly feelbad rather than feelgood!<br /><br />Of course, if I could find <i>The Muppet Christmas Carol</i> somewhere....Frooghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06738623732860210935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post-21953889278594511792010-11-28T02:08:44.549+00:002010-11-28T02:08:44.549+00:00One of the bars I frequent here has old movie post...One of the bars I frequent here has old movie posters on the wall and one of those posters is the one for Cinema Paradiso. Every time I am in there I can't help but stare at that poster while my drinking mate is going on about something. Absolutely loved that film, it brings out some raw emotions through some subtle ways that I have yet to understand. Regardless, staring at that poster it always brings back those feelings.<br /><br />Good list but not really holiday themed. If your looking to throw a couple of seasonal movies to sort of get in the spirit here are some that I enjoyed:<br /><br />I'm sure you've seen em both, but I'll throw them in, overplayed or not, I gotta watch Planes, Trains, and Automobiles as well as A Christmas Story whenever they are on.<br /><br />A couple you may not have seen: Home for the Holidays. The movie stars Holly Hunter, its a bit of a chick flick, but I really enjoyed it. Holiday Inn, the classic with Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby. As a child of the 70's and 80's, I often envy that essential slice of Americana that seemed to have existed in earlier decades. I think this movie captures that slice, then again, not having been there I cannot say for certain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post-41907548279755981532010-11-28T01:44:54.493+00:002010-11-28T01:44:54.493+00:00Oh dear! Just following his blog could eclipse on...Oh dear! Just following his blog could eclipse one's 'real life'!!<br /><br />Here I am starting to think, <i>"Well, I ration myself to reading two posts a day, I'll have caught up with him by the beginning of 2012..."</i>Frooghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06738623732860210935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post-40643204246498998072010-11-27T17:33:47.250+00:002010-11-27T17:33:47.250+00:00What an excellent list! Although I've seen (or...What an excellent list! Although I've seen (or seen again) a good number of those recently, I'll resist the temptation to make any comments in advance of your (re-)watchings. But December may leave you feeling at once quite sated and hungry for more, as movie marathons often do for me.<br /><br />Oh, btw, on one of my Web peregrinations I recently came upon this project: <em>Honky's Movie Year</em>. It's a blog, apparently started on a dare by a friend, documenting one man's effort to watch a movie a day for an entire year. Once he'd achieved that, the tap seems to have been uncloseable -- he's now in his second year. His first post -- the Introduction -- is <a href="http://honkysmovieyear.blogspot.com/2009/03/introduction.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. In <a href="http://honkysmovieyear.blogspot.com/2009/03/rules.html" rel="nofollow">the post after that</a>, he laid down his ground rules.<br /><br />I'd love to try a project like that sometime. On the other hand, I have no idea how I could have much of a "real life" with that at the back of my mind (and foreground of my calendar) every day!JEShttp://johnesimpson.com/noreply@blogger.com