You may know I love Christmas. Which for some reason is not usually spent in the bosom of my family, but on my own in front of the telly. I like it that way, so don't feel sorry for me! My love for Christmas extends to anything decorative that looks pretty. When I moved from the Netherlands I had four boxes filled with Christmas related things. Baubles and Christmas lights, snowmen, Santas, reindeer. Since the move I have managed to acquire a bit more. It still fills only four boxes, but that has mainly to do with the fact I am now displaying my Christmas films on a permanent basis.
Of those, I own about 225. I think. It could be more! I've got the weird and the wonderful, the old and the new, life action and cartoon. An example (well 2) of the weird must be Santa Claus and Santa Claus conquers the Martians. The first being a Mexican film that has static white reindeer, a devil and a weird heaven-like residence for Santa. The second being a early 70's film heavily influenced by the cold war, but with fantastic (sarcasm here people) make-up and costume!
The examples of the wonderful are The Christmas Card and a Muppet Family Christmas. I only have the first in a region 1 version, which means I cannot watch it very often (I have to take my second dvd-player out and hook it up), but it is a lovely story. A soldier coming back from Afghanistan or Iraq and looking for the woman who wrote him a Christmas card. A Muppet Family Christmas may be a television special, but it is such a lovely story: the whole gang coming together and celebrating Christmas. The songs, the jokes, the Muppets!
I have several old films in my collection too: Christmas in Connecticut, which is so much better than it's nineties remake. White Christmas which is a must! We're no Angels and Miracle on 34th Street. And then there are the cartoon films: Arthur Christmas and Charlie Brown amongst them.
And then there is the long list of films still on my wish list. Some I have seen on television, but are not (yet) available in Europe, others are completely new to me and a surprise. And at some point I hope they will be in my collection. To be watched all year round, otherwise I go mad at Christmas.
I think Oscar Wilde said it best: I can resist anything but temptation!
This was a prompted post by Spin Cycle. Thank you Ginny Marie at Lemon Drop Pie and Gretchen at Second Blooming.
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Oh, yes, White Christmas is one of my favorites! I love Holiday Inn, too. I haven't seen either one for a while. I should watch them with the girls, although they might prefer the Muppets!
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Oh yes, I love several different Christmas movies, but being married to a Jewish agnostic who has no interest in Christmas (I've stopped buying gifts for him) rather takes the fun out of it.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I love him, too, so I guess the trade-off is okay.
Glad you are preparing your collection for use next month!
Luv, K
You know I'm with you on loving Christmas movies. I can't wait to start watching them! (I do watch them during the year too)
ReplyDeleteOh my, I am a complete sucker for Christmas movies! Starting December 1, we start DVRing everything they run on tv. I completely envy your collection! I'm particularly partial to those '70s claymation shows - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus is coming to Town. And even the ones that make me cry like a fool - The Little Drummer Boy and Nestor the Long-Eared Donkey!
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking with the Spin Cycle!!
Hari Om
ReplyDeletethe oldies are the goodies for sure - but one or two recent ones are worth the watching... am unfamiliar with The Christmas Card but it sounds good. One I saw about 10 years ago (and saw it twice in the one season on two different channels) was a Swedish/Norwegian movie about a teddy bear who gets lost and one way or another hitches lifts back home!! Cannot remember the title but it was lovely.... YAM xx
I imagine we will watch Polar Express and Miracle of 34th with the kids. We'll probably do the usual two versions of Scrooge on our own.
ReplyDeleteI love Miracle on 34th Street, on of my favorites. Christmas movies always have a good ending, unlike Halloween Movies. Just ask Freddy!
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