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Home Fun Stuff It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like ….

December 15, 2011 By iluvcinema 7 Comments

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like ….

… well, you know 🙂

All gifts have been purchased – all except my youngest brother, who also had the good fortune to be born on Christmas Day (poor fellow). Cards and parcels are scheduled to go out today and tomorrow. All that is left is to do is to sit back and enjoy the holiday.

That got me thinking about what I could do on this blog to commemorate the holiday. Then I remembered, a couple of years ago I spent each of the 10 days leading up to Christmas giving readers what I would consider a ’10-disk box set’ of essential Yuletide viewing. The order in which each selection is labeled is in not of any consequence; here is my list:

Volume 1: A Charlie Brown Christmas

Volume 2: A Christmas Story

Volume 3: Love Actually Here is a favorite scene from that film:

Volume 4: Miracle on 34th Street

Volume 5: Remember the Night

Volume 6: Scrooge (A Christmas Carol)

Volume 7: It’s a Wonderful Life

Volume 8: Christmas in Connecticut

Volume 9: Holiday Affair

Volume 10: While You Were Sleeping

Of course missing from this box set is the perennial The Snowman. There are also a couple of honorable mentions, mostly the animated world:

Mickey’s Christmas Carol

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Bedtime for Sniffles

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Scrooged

… I could go on …

I am sure I am missing some essential holiday viewing so feel free to make more suggestions in the comments section below.

 

Filed Under: Fun Stuff Tagged With: boxed set, christmas movies

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  1. ruth says

    December 15, 2011 at 10:39 pm

    Glad you have It’s a Wonderful Life, one of my faves! I need to see more Christmas-themed movies, so many I haven’t seen. I might rent Miracles on 34th Street for the Christmas holiday.

    Reply
    • iluvcinema says

      December 16, 2011 at 8:32 am

      For ‘classic’ films of the genre, TCM must still be showing holiday movies; their website may also be a great resource for additional titles. I am going to do a write up about one that I have only recently encountered in the past year or so. AS i like to say, ‘stay tuned to this space …’

      Reply
  2. Scott Lawlor says

    December 16, 2011 at 5:33 am

    HAHA I am with Ruth. It’s a Wonderful Life is part of the LAWLOR Family Christmas Eve tradition.

    I am too feeling pretty christmassy, we have finished the pressies and bought the booze. All sorted

    Reply
    • iluvcinema says

      December 16, 2011 at 8:27 am

      Sometimes it takes me a minute to get there, but I get there eventually this time of year 🙂

      Reply
  3. Ja says

    December 16, 2011 at 9:21 am

    I love this list. I’m indoctrinating my daughter(s) with the Peanuts’ holiday specials. Thanks for reminding me about How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

    Reply
    • iluvcinema says

      December 16, 2011 at 10:13 am

      And who said indoctrination is necessarily a bad thing 😉

      Reply

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