Favorite Holiday Videos???

[The Celtic Gypsy]

"it's a Wonderful Life" and "Miracle on 34th Street" are not on my fave list (i never liked and probably never will) Love "The Christmas Story" in my family too it is a tradition. Also like "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" There are two more that you don't see very often, but i really love them. One is "An American Christmas Carol" with Henry Winkler and "A Christmas Memory" written and narrated by Truman Capote. Both are excellent productions and turn up occasional on channels like TCM or PBS.

I also love "The Polar Express" - both the movie and the book. For many years I would give the book to one of friends that needed to be reminded to let the magic of Christmas back into their lives. I got a Xmas card from one of the recipients (given about a dozen years ago) and he tells me that reading the book has become a tradition with his family on Christmas Eve.

[slohairt]

Nightmare Before Christmas
A Christmas Story
Scrooged
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (the old animated one)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (the stop-motion classic)

[macwilkin]

btw, for all of "A Christmas Story" fans, the previous director of our library grew up on the same street as Jean Shepherd in Hammond, Indiana -- she even remembered the Bumpas's smelly hound-dogs!

T.

[fudgeman]

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Scrooged
Christmas Carol. I also like the '51 version with Alistair Sims

[Panache]

My five favorite Christmas Movies


A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart

The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant and David Niven

Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (the first animated holiday special ever put on the networks!)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

March of the Wooden Soldiers with Laurel and Hardy


For the record, I can still hear the ring of the bell!

Cheers

Jamie

[Kiltman]

Every year I watch White Christmas—if you live in Spokane it's required for citizenship (Bing Crosby was from Spokane and Gonzaga University get royalties from the title song). It's such a wonderful movie and does express the Christmas spirit.

[Standard]

Very year on Christmas eve we all gather and watch "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation". Not one of your typical Christmas stories, but a tradition for us none-the-less.
Hmm..... I wonder how cousin Eddie would look in a kilt?

[DTrain]

I always watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Classic.

A great holiday tale of the Dickens Christmas Carol is a 1971 musical version called Scrooge. Albert Finney plays Scrooge and Sir Alec Guiness is Jacob Marley. Outstanding acting and great songs, too. My personal favorite version. My wife and kids love it, too.

[FreeDon!]

Hmmm, I'd have to say that these are at the top of my list (in no particular order):

How the Grinch Stole Christmas
A Christmas Story
It's a Wonderful Life
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Miracle on 34th Street

and The Sound of Music - not really a Christmas movie, but we always seem to watch it around this time of year.

Don

[Instakilt]

"Nightmare Before Christmas"
"A Christmas Story"
"It's a Wonderful Life"
Call me a sap, but since I was a kid I've always watched "The Sound of Music" at Christmas time.
Who could possibly forget "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas"!