Why are the best Christmas movies so melancholy?
Blue Christmas, an original video essay from the Criterion Collection.
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December 21st, 2013 at 08:20
Thank you for this. Thanksgiving movies are just as rife with misery. Travelers stranded at the airport, bickering relatives, family dysfunction galore, the homeless lining up for servings of turkey at the shelter or soup kitchen. Even the comedies often involve disasters with the turkey– which always ends up either undercooked, burnt, too large to fit into the oven, or falling out of the serving tray as the host emerges from the kitchen to great fanfare. Everyone ends up ordering pizza.
December 22nd, 2013 at 22:10
My Christmas film of choice is Die Hard. It’s hard to beat the immortal line “Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho.”
And for something not quite set in the real world, the two-part TV adaptation of Hogfather is nice.