11173 What is your favourite Christmas film?

Just an idea to get us to share those magic 'Christmas' films that seem to appear every so often...
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For me the very [i][u]BEST[/u][/i] Christmas film [I][U]ever[/U][/I] was the 1951 'Scrooge - A Christmas Carol' from the Charles Dickens book and starring Alistair Sim...

Here is the opening part from You Tube - where you can see how mean Scrooge is. But it tells a wonderful story [i]and[/i] does have a happy ending!

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Do you mean on the telly??? Without a doubt - "Some Like It Hot". If I'm also allowed another one - "Gone With The Wind" Maybe you could turn this into a poll???

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We have to have several ...........
In the morning Anne of Green Gables
After lunch, The Great Escape
Last thing ....Its a Wonderful Life

Lest we forget "The Wizard of Oz". :winki::bigergrin:

It is not the average Christmas movie.... but it (fictionally) takes place in the Christmas Court at Chinon in 1083, "The Lion in Winter". Great entertainment with a fabulous cast headed by Peter O'Toole and Katherine Hepburn.

Strange I don't ever remember this film Gala being shown on UK TV.

Here's an excerpt plus there are additional links to videos allied to the film on the Youtube website.. Actually it could be the whole film is there. I recently watched "Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid" in it's entirety but over 14 videos. lol

[ame=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KDbfOFBxmEI]YouTube - The Lion in the Winter[/ame]

Why am I not surprised the Muppets are featured in this thread? :bigergrin:

My favourite is Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

Other Christmas Muppet gems -

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Can it be "Gone with the Wind", hopefully I will feel better by then.
(gastric virus...alot of it around according to GP) sorry too much information.
A

Anyone care to make a pun here??? lol (But actually, poor you, Angie)

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory often features at Christmas, but unfortunately always too early in the day for adults to be suffciently lubricated to enjoy it.

Maybe this year they'll show The Red Balloon - (a short, which was digitally re-engineered last year) - don't miss it if it's on.

But my vote goes to 'Mr Blandings builds his Dream House' (made about thirty years before 'The Money Pit'). Those two films are really must-sees for anybody embarking on a house restoration, and also for those who've been there, got the tee-shirt. You can usually find them on some obscure UK channel in the 'early hours' over the holiday period - they are very funny and well observed!

I don't see any of these alas on the five main UK channels and these are the films they are showing on Christmas Day instead.

The African Queen
Oklahoma!
Wallace & Gromit In The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
Scrooged
Memoirs Of A Geisha
Casanova

I still love the short animated film "The Snowman".
Havn't looked to see if it is on over Christmas yet. I do hope so.

Francesca

I don't see it Francesca however "Willie Wonka And The Chocolate Factory" is on ITV1 Christmas Eve late afternoon, Charles.

These are the films for Boxing Day 12pm onwards

Ella Enchanted
The Importance Of Being Earnest
Black Beauty
South Pacific
The Railway Children
It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Big
Madagascar
Mary Poppins
The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion,
the Witch And the Wardrobe
Nicholas Nickleby
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Ches
"Crocodile" Dundee

There you go.

Per Franceaca -

ANIMATION
The Snowman
Wednesday 24 December
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Channel 4

Animation. Christmas is a magical time, as a little boy discovers when his snowman comes to life and flies him to the North Pole to meet a very important person. Based on the book by Raymond Briggs.

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Per Carole -

FILM
Scrooge - A Christmas Carol
Wednesday 24 December
4:50pm - 6:30pm
Five

One of the most memorable cinematic adaptations of Dickens's classic story, 'A Christmas Carol', about the miser who discovers the true meaning of Christmas through his encounters with the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

Cast
Alastair Sim,Mervyn Johns,Kathleen Harrison,Jack Warner,Hermione Baddeley
Directed by: Brian Desmond-Hurst
Filmed in: 1951

Miracle on 34th Street (either version)- I like my Christmas films sugary sweet!

Wheres Casablanca?, possibly my favourite film ever.
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[quote=Angie and Robert;105660]Wheres Casablanca?[/quote]

Erm.. in Morocco! :bigergrin:

Oh very droll J&C, I know where it is, just wondered why it wasnt on anyones list!:bigergrin:
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Play it again Ang.. it's almost Christmas and it's on your list now. :winki:

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any Bond movie
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Apart from, IMHO, Quantum ..............In one 2 minute fight scene there were at least 50 jump cuts and angles...........to many and the whole film is pretty much like that.