Christmas Films

I can watch any film with a Christmas theme. All my faves have already been mentioned.

The Polar Express was good, sorry if someone said that and i missed it. I'd avoid Christmas with the Kranks though.
 
Its a Wonderful life

Miracle on 34th street "original with Edmund Gwenn for preference but the remake isnt bad"

Scrooge 1951 "not colorised please" with Alastair Sim and superb supporting cast

Also like a couple of good creepy ghost stories too

So something like
The Signalman
Dead of night
13 Ghosts
or A Chinese ghost story would be very welcome
 
Santa Claus: the Movie
The Santa Clause
The Santa Clause 2
Home Alone
Home Alone 2
Jingle all the Way
The Grinch
Xmas Carol (Alistair Sim version)

All will get a watching some time between 18th and the 24th :cool: I watched Nightmare Before Christmas on Hallowe'en, so I can't watch it again.
 
Muppet's Christmas Carol is also excellent, as previously mentioned.

A little off topic, but I also associate some non-Christmas films with Christmas, paritculalrly sci-fi:-

It's either Star Trek 4 or Star Trek 6, the intro music sounRAB very Christmassy to me on one of them, and it's always on around Christmas.

Return of the Jedi - still have a VHS tape with "Christmas Care Line - Are you feeling lonely this Christmas? - phone 0161 ... ...." scrolling across Jabba the Hutt's face. So I always associate that one with Christmas.

There are many films they nearly always show at Christmas, so I end up being reminded of Christmas if I see them again - "The Great Escape", "The Italian Job (1969)", "Flight of the Navigator".

I want to see "Christmas on the moon (1959)" some time, it was an episode of an American sci-fi show.

And I did recently see "Feast of Steven (1965)", a light-hearted episode of "Dr Who- The Dalek's Master Plan" which just appened to coincide with Christmas at the time of it's original airing.
 
I have It's a Wonderful Life on video and now DVD and it is has become a family tradition to wrap the presents whilst watching it and drinking champagne on Christmas Eve. I talk along with the dialogue now.

I also have a soft spot for The Nightmare Before Christmas and Home Alone, despite hating that sort of film normally, just because it reminRAB me of when the kiRAB were little and Christmas had that magic that it can only have when you have very little excited children in the house.
 
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