CHRISTMAS FILMS PAST AND PRESENT

http://www.catholicleague.org ^ | 11/16/2016 | Bill Donohue

[HoneysuckleTN]

“a holiday classic and remains the movie people associate with Christmas more than any other.”

Not me. While I was growing up, one channel always played It's a Wonderful Life as the late movie on New Year's Eve. While the movie is mostly set at Christmas time, I now associate it with and watch it on NYE. My Christmas favorites are A Christmas Carol (with Alistair Sim), Christmas in Connecticut, Holiday Inn, and The Bells of St. Mary's. (I admit I'm fond of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, too. :)

[HoneysuckleTN]

I saw a disgusting Christmas movie once. It opened to a single mom coming home, only to find that her daughter, who attended a “progressive school,” had wandered, unsupervised, into an apartment occupied by an unmarried adult male, and even worse, he was smoking a pipe!

Oh, how could I forget to add that to my list of Christmas faves! Miracle on 34th Street.

[heterosupremacist]

My Favorite is “A Christmas Story”. Very funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC6Tz9xqx_M

[Vermont Lt]

It’s a wonderful life had little to do with Christmas either. I like the movie. But still....not a lot about Christmas.

[Tareli]

“You’ll shoot your eye out!”

[Ticonderoga34]

I thought Elf was a pretty good Christmas movie.

[LibertarianLiz]

The Bishop's Wife.

I'll second that. Has always been my favorite Christmas movie.

[Hot Tabasco]

The Hallmark Channel has the best holiday programs and they’re now being shown.

[SES1066]

It is not just the movies, it is also television that shows the with-drawl from the common culture. In my childhood, everyone had a Christmas-themed show, from Rod Serling to Milton Berle, Jewish or not. Rod Serling's Twilight Zone broadcast the EXCELLENT "Night of the Meek" in 1960 on CBS Broadcast TV. A failed department store seasonal Santa, played by the great Art Carney, suddenly finds his bag full of real presents.

From Ed Sullivan to Jack Benny, most of the then popular variety shows had a Christmas themed shows. A great favorite of mine was a perennial re-broadcast variety show hosted by the 'deep' singer, Tennessee Ernie Ford, an obviously religious Christian who had several beautiful Christmas shows.

[Hot Tabasco]

The Hallmark Channel, with their 89 days of Christmas movies that do not have a blessed thing to do with Christmas, drives me straight up the wall.

Personally i love that channel this time of the year. Obviously unlike you, I have the ability to change channels and watch it whenever I choose.......

You might want to find another provider that offers you more than one channel

[BlueLancer]

Watch it every year ...

Ringle, ringle, coins when they jingle,
Make such a lovely sound ...

[Tax-chick]

“Donovan’s Reef” is our favorite Christmas movie, although the younger children favor “Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown.”

[Mollypitcher1]

Well don’t watch Hallmark! Some of us enjoy them because they are CLEAN films.

[COBOL2Java]

One Magic Christmas, while theologically questionable (good humans don't become angels when they die), is a very good movie.

[AppyPappy]

The written form is far better as it takes somewhat of a controversial turn. You can read that into the movies and they become better.

[Tax-chick]

I can recall surprising Christmas episodes of several programs, including “Space: Above and Beyond” and “Hercules: the Legendary Journeys.” They observed Christmas on “Downton Abbey,” too, and of course, people are murdered in Midsomer.

[Mollypitcher1]

I loved Perry Como’s Christmas Shows.

[Tax-chick]

And finally keep in mind, not everybody likes the holidays. They lack family, they lack nice family, or they just hate all the saccharine entertainment that infects this time of year.

It is one thing to prefer not participating in an activity other enjoy. It is something else to wish to see it debased and covered with filth.

[SES1066]

I can recall surprising Christmas episodes of several programs, including “Space: Above and Beyond” ...

I got the DVDs of that wonderful series ESPECIALLY for that Christmas Episode that featured the 1968 Christmas lunar orbit by Apollo 8. It is now available on youtube so I commend it to any who are interested.

[Tax-chick]

We own the DVDs, too. I have a thing for Col. McQueen.