What are your choices for the funniest bits in Christmas comedy movies? Here are a few suggestions to consider.
Tag: Classic Film
‘Miracle on 34th Street’ is a Christmas movie where more of the action takes place on Thanksgiving than on Christmas.
Perhaps no classic Christmas movie devotes fewer onscreen minutes to traditional Christmas iconography than “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Why, then, does this holiday season staple seem to speak more directly to the reason for the season than other films?
The history of Hollywood drama is dependent to a large extent upon the leading actors of each generation. Montgomery Clift was the first in line of a handful of actors who changed everything in the 1950’s.
When the world around you has ceased to make the sense that it seemed to make for several millennia and you realize you are all on your own, you have to go for the gusto. Being in charge of your own response to the whirling hand of the bitch goddess Fortuna is the most power you can ever hope for.
The rare airing of “Intolerance” on Turner Classic Movies gives moviegoers a chance to learn two…
How can a glossy Hollywood musical contain the most subversive scene involving Christmas ever put into a movie? Might as well ask how a glossy Hollywood musical can create a Christmas scene involving Freudian castration of the patriarchal order.
That long title says it all. Learn more about a Hollywood screenwriter forever changed the landscape upon which the werewolf trods.
Despite the moral ambiguity of Rick Blaine at the beginning and despite the presence of real evil in the form of the Nazis all around him and despite the presence of all those other elements—guilt, alienation, paranoia—the ending of Casablanca holds out hope.
Kazan did nothing to protect the minds of America from being infected by communist doctrine. (You know the kind of stuff I’m talking about: free health care, affordable higher education for everybody, higher wages for workers, and less inheritance for Paris Hilton.) It is unconscionable to reward Kazan and anyone else connected with On the Waterfront with Oscars or any other kind of award.
