Easter is one of those tricky days for my family and me. Growing up we would on occasion go to Easter service but not regularly (always too crowded). In addition, when it came to “Easter Dinner” (family is from the South so any holiday is basically an excuse to eat), we would typically have a big to-do at the house with all the trimmings. There was also always the laying out and filling up of the baskets, the dyeing of the eggs, etc. to keep us entertained.
In recent years however, these traditions have completely fallen at the wayside – all but one, that is. Every so often, I do find myself flipping through the channels on Easter Sunday and stopping when I see The Ten Commandments or The Sound of Music on TV (not sure about The Wizard of Oz though, that may be Thanksgiving/Christmas).
Personally I would have to say that my go-to Easter viewing traditions are the aforementioned The Sound of Music and Jesus of Nazareth. With respect to the latter, I remember being a youth and thinking that it was so epic!
So now I turn it over to you, fellow cine-philes:
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Pete says
April 7, 2012 at 7:01 amSad to day I don’t have an Easter watching tradition. But this weekend it’s all about hopefully seeing Titanic back on the big screen!
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iluvcinema says
April 7, 2012 at 11:44 amHave fun! Let us know how the 3D looks 🙂
Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) says
April 7, 2012 at 8:16 amI have watched all of those films fairly regularly over the decades and EASTER PARADE is the one we are most likely to watch as a family – the fact that it is the shortest may very well have something to do with it, I’ll be honest – but it depends what is made available on TV – though I do own all of these on video/DVD/Blu-ray, on public holidays we usually just watch what is available on the box …
Happy Easter (or ‘Buona Pasqua’ as we say in my neck of the woods).
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iluvcinema says
April 7, 2012 at 11:43 amI hear you about the length of films – particularly on network tv in the states. It makes The Sound of Music an epic 3 plus hours.
le0pard13 says
April 7, 2012 at 12:21 pmIn the past, it’s been ‘The Ten Commandments’ (viewing its broadcast on television). This year, my son and I will be doing this epic</a< on the big screen.
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iluvcinema says
April 9, 2012 at 8:33 amAs my nephew is apt to say – that’s awesome! I love seeing old films on the big screen!
ruth says
April 8, 2012 at 7:21 pmAll of them seem to be good choices, glad you didn’t include ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ on there, ugh. I voted for Ben-Hur even though I would make David and Bathsheba as an Easter viewing tradition now 😀
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iluvcinema says
April 9, 2012 at 8:33 amAha – Greg Peck 😉
ruth says
April 9, 2012 at 1:27 pmHe..he.. indeed. But still hard to top Ben-Hur though, that film really stood the test of time.
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sati says
April 9, 2012 at 10:51 amI do not have any Easter viewing traditions, but for some reason there is plenty of romantic comedies on TV this time, I do not get that all 🙂
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iluvcinema says
April 9, 2012 at 11:22 amInteresting … I did not watch anything this weekend except for playing catch-up on Eastenders episodes that I have missed over the past several months. That and cooked and ate 🙂
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Diana aka Aziza says
April 9, 2012 at 5:50 pmI don’t usually watch movies on Easter, but I know my local TV station always broadcasts Easter movies like Jesus of Nazareth or Passion of Christ, so sometimes I would watch that!
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iluvcinema says
April 10, 2012 at 11:44 amAnother one I have not seen – Passion of Christ!
The Focused Filmographer says
April 10, 2012 at 4:43 pmThe Ten Commandments for me!!
Hope you had a great Easter!
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3guys1movie says
April 11, 2012 at 11:56 amNot sure if it is going to become an Easter tradition yet but we watched Sound of Music and my 4 year-old was really into it so who knows. As an aside that new Blu-ray version is pretty awesome.
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iluvcinema says
April 11, 2012 at 12:26 pmWe did The Sound of Music in grammar school – as I imagine most folks did. But that is when I fell in love with it 🙂