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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Dec 18, 2020 18:34:24 GMT
My recommendations of good movies with Christmas scenes: Little Caesar (1931) The Thin Man (1934) A Star Is Born (1937) Love Affair (1939) Remember the Night (1940) My Favorite Wife (1940) Penny Serenade (1941) The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) The Brighton Strangler (1945) Road To Utopia (1945) It Happened On Fifth Avenue (1947) In the Good Old Summertime (1949) A Star Is Born (1954) All That Heaven Allows (1955) An Affair To Remember (1957) The Miracle Worker (1962) Doctor Zhivago (1965) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) The French Connection (1971) Black Christmas (1974) Mahogany (1975) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Life of Brian (1979) Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) Diner (1982) Falling in Love (1984) Prizzi's Honor (1985) When Harry Met Sally... (1989) 29th Street (1991) Only the Lonely (1991) A Midnight Clear (1992) Grumpy Old Men (1993) Nobody's Fool (1994) The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) L.A. Confidential (1997) Cast Away (2000) Serendipity (2001) The Bourne Identity (2002) The Boat That Rocked/Pirate Radio (2009) The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011) The Iceman (2012) Carol (2015) The Nice Guys (2016) The Wife (2017) All the Money in the World (2017) Wind River (2017) Ben Is Back (2018) The Irishman (2019) Hillbilly Elegy (2020) Godmothered (2020)
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Post by claudius on Dec 18, 2020 18:54:35 GMT
Has anyone ever seen the Arnold Schwarzenegger remake of Christmas in Connecticut (1992)? I need fresh movies and I just remembered I never did see this. Any good?  No, but a kinda... When my brother recorded BEN-HUR A TALE OF THE CHRIST (1925) on TNT at midnight late March 1992, he started the recording at the last half hour of the broadcast of the 1959 version (it was a double feature in view of its monthly marathon of MGM films in tribute to MGM WHEN THE LION ROARS documentary. Look up the promo on YouTube). Between films was a featurette of CinC with interviews with Arnold, and Dyan, Kris, and Tony kissing up their director. The narrator calls it an early Christmas gift from Arnold with Arnold asking the viewer what we will give him (There were also several promos stating the film’s directorial credit with Arnold saying “You got a problem with that?”). When I get ready to traditionally play the recording on Christmas Eve I let the featurette play with no FF. So although I never saw the film, I am well aware of it.
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Post by timshelboy on Dec 18, 2020 19:35:47 GMT
Has anyone ever seen the Arnold Schwarzenegger remake of Christmas in Connecticut (1992)? I need fresh movies and I just remembered I never did see this. Any good?  Yes - it is not awful but pretty feeble -Dyan gives it her best and she's a talented comedienne but still only a 3/10. Stick with Babs.
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Post by Salzmank on Dec 23, 2020 18:19:27 GMT
Oh, and how could I forget Cash on Demand (1961, dir. Quentin Lawrence)?  It’s an ingenious reworking of A Christmas Carol—with a bank manager (Peter Cushing) as Scrooge and a bank robber (André Morell) as all four ghosts in one. Cushing and Morell were superb actors, yet their performances here are unbelievably good even by their standards. Cushing’s “Scrooge,” Harry Fordyce, is as cold and austere as Dickens’ man pre-redemption, yet he convinces us that he’s a real human being in ways with which even the best film Scrooges had trouble. Morell (Hammer Films’ Prof. Quatermass and Dr. Watson, among other great roles) is one of the best movie villains ever. I suspect that another of the best movie villains ever, Die Hard’s Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), was in part based on Morell’s Col. Gore Hepburn. Both are charming, charismatic, even likable—and coldhearted, remorseless killers. Even some of the punchlines are nigh-identical:The filmmaking is just as exceptional, with suspenseful set piece after suspenseful set piece. The sequence with the safe and the alarm is a marvel. The script—witty and twist-packed as it is—betrays its stage-play origins, yet director Quentin Lawrence keeps every scene moving lightning-fast. My only real criticisms are that the main twist is a bit obvious (although, on first viewing, I didn’t expect a few twists that preceded it) and that the supporting cast could have been used a bit better as “Cratchits” (this is mostly a two-man show). But those are tiny things. The ending is as heartwarming and, well, Christmassy as any other great Christmas Carol. A fantastic little film that deserves to be a Christmas classic. EDIT: mikef6 already listed this, and I read his list. Well, take this as a seconding!
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