![]() Van Dyke) – Never do two people have more fun solving a murder than Nick and Nora Charles, as immortalized by the great William Powell and Myrna Loy (who were great friends in real life & made 14 pictures together). ![]() This is a personal favorite and the ending at New Years’ makes it a perfect holiday film now you say, “shut up and deal.” Billy Wilder) – Set in the chilled climate of a New York City winter, this film has all the qualities you expect from Billy Wilder: cutting humor, the exquisite dialogue you (and the films’ actors) can sink your teeth into, and a bittersweet edge. The list below certainly does not constitute any kind of ‘ultimate’ or ‘best of’ guide I prefer to offer a wide array of options, a smorgasbord of silver screen morsels, all excellent for a given moment and a given mood. I’m probably missing a bunch, some of which I’ll undoubtedly mention in my list below, and some of which I’ll undoubtedly miss. Those suspects are, generally: It’s a Wonderful Life, Home Alone, Love Actually, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Die Hard, Elf, and A Christmas Story, respectively. There are, of course, the usual suspects (and with those three words I reference Michael Curtiz’s classic Casablanca and not the Bryan Singer film of that name). we know it when we see it), but that we cannot define? It’s a question that must vex film scholars, and I don’t plan on providing any deep notions or answers here, other than a surefire list to get you through the holidays and New Years’ with one hand on the TV remote and the other hand on the cookie tin. What makes a holiday movie? What sort of elements must reside within the film for it to qualify for a category of films that we all seem to know implicitly (i.e. ![]()
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