December 30 - January 5:
After the Thin Man (1936)
William Powell, Myrna Loy
Perhaps it's geeky, but we have to watch this one every year around New Year's Eve, since that's when it takes place. Nick and Nora ring in the new year at a Chinese restaurant/nightclub after ditching her geriatric and cranky family (and catch the bad guy while they're at it). It's a gas!
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan
A G.I. gets amnesia after he almost gets blown up by a grenade, only he doesn't want anyone to know, so he tries to piece together the details of his life on the QT. He doesn't like what he discovers, namely that he might be a murderer. Great noir suspense.
December 16 - December 30:
White Christmas (1954)
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen
I've decided this one is in at least my top ten favorite films. It's got it all: great nightclub scenes, costumes, music and people helping other people just because they want to. And it was the first film made in Vista Vision!
A Christmas Story (1983)
Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin, Melinda Dillon
Normally we see this film about 50 times over the holidays, but we only saw it once this year. Every year I have a different favorite scene. This year I think it's a tie between the scene where Ralphie gives his teacher the big basket of fruit and the very beginning, where the kids are looking in Higbee's window at all the toys for Christmas.
A Diva's Christmas Carol (2000)
Vanessa Williams, Kathy Griffin, John Taylor
We discovered this campy film about a bitchy R&B singer named Ebony (last name Scrooge) a few years ago and love it. She's really evil, abusing everyone in her midst, until the ghosts of Christmases past, present and future set her straight. Good for laughs!
We've also been watching some of the fabulous DVDs we received for Christmas, including a set of 1960s scopitones (music videos that were made to play on juke box-like machines) and the complete series of Honey West, which we thought might be hard to play because it's in the PAL format, but, happily, works on our DVD player!
December 9 - December 15:
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
One of our holiday favorites and we FINALLY got to watch it this season! A wounded sailor meets a nurse while in the hospital recovering. She decides he'll be more likely to marry her if he can spend Christmas "in a real homey home," and contrives to get him invited to the pastoral farm home of Elizabeth Lane, "America's Most Famous Homemaker," for Christmas. There's only one problem: it's all a scam. Elizabeth Lane lives in a city apartment and can't boil water. Zany mayhem ensues as she does her best to give the sailor the Christmas of his dreams (and keep from getting fired from her magazine writing job).
December 2 - December 8:
Santa's elves were busily working this week at the Lounge to provide Christmas CDs and various other presents, so no movie viewing happened. This WILL be remedied this week!
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