Heading To The North POLL ... It's the ILX Holiday Movies Poll Nominations Thread (Voting Starts: Nov. 21)

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Eligible are Holiday-themed movies + movies set during holidays only. We're saving TV specials and shows for next year, as decided by the majority here: Holiday Movies (and more?) POLL, Preliminary Question -- What To Include?

Don't worry about nominating Die Hard. Morbs already did it in the previous thread.

Nominations close: Thursday, Nov. 21 (one week before Thanksgiving in America) at EOD, or whenever I get up the next day.

The Prince of Egypt

I suspect this will be overlooked: Bill Forsyth's Comfort and Joy.

Scrooged
Bad Santa
Gremlins

Pretty much the holiday film staples of the Lunch family.

Fanny and Alexander
Going My Way
the one with the guardian angel

The Shop Around the Corner
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Eyes Wide Shut

Blast of Silence

A Bad Moms Christmas
Female Trouble
Lady in the Lake
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Christmas Perfection/The Perfect Christmas Village

Long Weekend
Les Vacances de M. Hulot
Eurotrip
Meatballs
The Kings Of Summer
Deliverance
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Y Tu Mamá También

I can't recommend Christmas Perfection enough btw, I chanced on it last year and was so mindblown I liveblogged it on Facebook

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

wait waht? I have seen this movie a bunch and can't recall any mention of the holidays

Troll “holiday means vacation” votes from the other side of the pond will not be counted

oh lol is that what's going on there

The Thin Man
Trading Places
Two Men in Manhattan
The Apartment
The Shop Around the Corner
Love Actually (kindly do not @ me)
The Ref
Holiday (1930 and 1938)

A Tale of Winter
My Night at Maud's
Mon oncle Antoine

Black Christmas
Gift Wrapped
Meet Me in St. Louis

Hannah and Her Sisters
It's a Wonderful Life
Christmas Story
The Hudsucker Proxy

Love Actually (kindly do not @ me)

well ok but

Carol
Tangerine
A Christmas Tale (Desplechin)

Elf
Nightmare Before Christmas
Meet Me in St Louis
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
It’s A Wonderful Life
Christmas Story

the other side of the pond

the pond???!!???!¡

I knew it rained a lot in your part of the country but I had no idea.

Did we get a ruling on Psycho? Because if 'yea':

Psycho

Troll “holiday means vacation” votes from the other side of the pond will not be counted

things you were shockingly old when you learned etc

Yeah we use winterval usually

Thanksgiving and xmas are just about the only substantive holidays some Americans get, hence the colloquialism.

hey I get it, american poll, everyone else not welcome, no worries

(Camaraderie stalks out of the pub, a little tipsy, a little despondent, and notices while strolling down the road first one flake and then another until at last a magical whirlwind of snow blankets the scene and the true meaning of the holidays is revealed)

(Perhaps a talking candy cane is involved. I wouldn't rule it out.)

that snowflakes are taking over everything?

you can’t even say Merry Christmas Poll anymore

any good movies about Yom Kippur?

bah xpost

xpost Atonement, iirc?

you can’t even say Merry Christmas Poll anymore

Spoken like a true American.

Silent Night, Deadly Night: Part 2

xpost Atonement, iirc?

― I'm scared my but won't fit in it. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, November 5, 2019 3:06 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Hunger, too

Scrooge (1970)
Batman Returns
Curse of the Cat People

"Peace on Earth" (1939)
available to watch here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ekaww

The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
Krampus (2015)
"Thanksgiving" (2007) yourtub link

Pastebin running nominations: https://pastebin.com/TTHE25dG

I will freely admit that the ending of Scrooged still consistently makes me cry buckets

Mother’s Day
New Year’s Eve
Valentine’s Day

The Passion of the Christ

you and your pond

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
36.15 Pere Noel
Rare Exports
The Ref
A Very Harold & Kumr 3-D Christmas

Kumr is an app Kal Penn was developing at the White House iirc

Definitely voting in this to make sure Scrooged gets the highest possible placing.

The Last Waltz

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Ernest Saves Christmas
Call Me by Your Name
The Grinch (2018)

Planes Trains and Automobiles
The various Home Alones

Phantom Thread (Christmas and New Year's)

"Toy Tinkers" link
"Pluto's Christmas Tree" link

The only eligible Looney Tunes short is "Gift Wrapped", correct?

The Jazz Singer

not nominating the movie, but a good scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2YTR8NgogI

The only eligible Looney Tunes short is "Gift Wrapped", correct?

wait are shorts being counted? 1993 storms in with

A Junky's Christmas
(dir. Nick Donkin & Melodie McDaniel, p. Francis Ford Coppola)

Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life
(w/d. Peter Capaldi, s. Richard E. Grant, winner of best short at BAFTA Scotland 1993, Atlantic Film Award 1993, BAFTA 1994 and Oscar 1995)

I don’t object to shorts as long as it’s not to railroad in TV specials.

The Alastair Sim A Christmas Carol--growing up, on equal footing with It's a Wonderful Life in my family.

Adding a few more (some obvious):

The Family Stone
The Bishop's Wife
Christmas in Connecticut
Metropolitan
Remember the Night
Miracle on 34th Street
Holiday Inn

Metropolitan is a movie I've been wanting to watch again

A Junky's Christmas in a decent rip on youtube

Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life in a fairly murky TV -> VHS -> computer rip on youtube

Pieces of April

Irony of Fate/Enjoy Your Bath!

Joyeux Noël
2046

2046 " follows the aftermath of Chow Mo-wan's unconsummated affair with Su Li-zhen in 1960s Hong Kong but also includes some science fiction elements and makes frequent references to the date of December 24 or Christmas Eve, on which many significant events in the film occur.”

Addams Family Values

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

The Ice Storm

that film meant a lot to me

Le Père Noël est une ordure (Father Christmas Is a Shit)

^this was remade as the Steve Martin-Adam Sandler vehicle Mixed Nuts

Mon oncle Antoine

Thirding the hard-nomming for Scrooged. I was so 'ehh' about that movie for the longest time but at some point it clicked and then it clicked hard and now I kinda can't get through the season without watching it. I think 'asshole Bill Murray finding redemption via mystical means' might be my favorite microgenre.

The Insect's Christmas (1913)

All added.

(And added joke nominee New Year's Eve too because, hey, it actually counts!)

Technical question: are TV movies acceptable or are they gonna fall under the purview of next year's poll of holiday specials?

The Christmas Tree aka When Wolves Cry

😎

If it's feature length, go ahead. Or if it's a short that was primarily first played in theaters.

Okay then:

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
The House Without a Christmas Tree

And unless I'm forgetting some obvious examples, those two 50-year-old entries might comprise the entire corpus of worthwhile feature-length made-for-TV xmas movies.

Probably true.

Someone paste in the whole Lifetime and Hallmark oeuvres.

AKA cinematic xanax

Edward Scissorhands

I keep trying to think of movies to add to the nomination list and it seems we've already covered most of the important ones, and there aren't even 100 nominations yet.

So, yeah, if you have specific Hallmark channel favorites, have at it

Norte: The End of History

Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever

Santa Claus (1959)
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
The Santa Clause
Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Tokyo Godfathers
Santa Buddies

How about some Oscar winners?

Cavalcade (1933) starts and ends on New Year's
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Godfather Part II
Green Book

okay, a couple of corny ones i enjoyed:

The Holiday Calendar (the two leads are very cute)
Last Holiday (queen latifah!)

Haven't seen them but know that they're appreciate in some quarters:

Jingle All the Way
Home for the Holidays

Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County
Blood Freak

I'm glad that Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever and The Godfather Part II are in the same genre.

Krisha

xpost I don't know that I'd call 'films where Robert DeNiro portrays a younger iteration of the titular protagonist' a genre per se.

you got me, i looked it up

I thought of the first Godfather--Michael and Kay walking along the street after seeing The Bells of St. Mary's--but it seemed like a stretch.

they buy presents also, but let's indeed cut the crap

https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/11-best-incidental-christmas-movies-article-1.2905317

(they're walking past RCMH w/ Bells on the marquee -- I don't know if it's clear theyve just seen it)

Boogie Nights
Radio Days

TV movies are TV specials imo

nobody should nominate anything that they don't endorse let alone haven't seen. all noms should be accompanied by at least 100 words making their case

oh: A Christmas Carol (19996 starring Patrick Stewart, the TNT movie

lol 1999

yeah the holidays in Godfather 2 are probably too incident to merit inclusion. i rescind the nomination.

Aw, I was looking forward to seeing just how high that landed on clemenza's ballot.

nobody should nominate anything that they don't endorse let alone haven't seen. all noms should be accompanied by at least 100 words making their case

― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Thursday, November 7, 2019 10:57 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

well, I've seen Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever

as long as all the questions left from Grumpy Cat’s Best Christmas Ever were resolved

Look, I know it isn't feature length but because it was a direct-to-video release it technically isn't a TV special, either, so I think it's only fair that this be included among the nominees for any poll of filmed holiday entertainment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6grWQ55VAI

Basically, I'm predisposed to foist this upon people at any and every opportunity because your life isn't complete until you've seen it (although you're likely to wish that your life was complete after you have seen it).

Prometheus

3 Godfathers

Aw, I was looking forward to seeing just how high that landed on clemenza's ballot.

That's the biggest reason I didn't nominate it--if I had, I wasn't going to vote for it anyway.

I think there's a stronger, albeit still iffy, argument for nominating Goodfellas. The post-heist bar scene is among the film's best, and there are three classic Christmas songs on the soundtrack (Ronettes, Darlene Love, Drifters). But I'll leave nomination up to someone else--I'd probably pass on voting for that too.

another christmas scene in a non-christmas movie (that i'm not nominating)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnuqDV8usBM

https://www.cinemablend.com/news/1749530/why-lethal-weapon-is-a-better-christmas-movie-than-die-hard

https://img.cinemablend.com/filter:scale/quill/f/f/2/7/9/0/ff27909c410bf9ab60baaae28a06704040d1fe7e.jpg

Tales From the Crypt (1972) or just the Joan Collins segment "And All Through the House" if you prefer.

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I really loved Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates, a Hallmark movie from 1958, I saw it on TV as a child and I think it formed me in some ways, but I haven't seen it since

if that's eligible I nominate it

Big Business (1929)
La petite marchande d'allumettes (1928)
King of Kings (1927 and 1961)
The Unholy Three (1925 and 1930)

3 Godfathers

― wasdnuos (abanana), Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:23 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

See also Hell's Heroes (1930).

29th Street

I hereby nominate all of these

I refuse to believe that these are all different movies pic.twitter.com/OBU5EscJkj

— Henry (@realHenryB) November 12, 2019

(not really nominating them, pollrunners)

W H A T !!! pic.twitter.com/WowBSUkNm6

— trevb (@trrvvb) November 11, 2019

Amazing.

First, Hallmark Channel deprives the gays of Golden Girls for four months of the year, and then they force a poor Canadian studio to reshoot an entire movie to remove the gay couple in it. (Kidding, no idea if this was Hallmark-related, but it felt right.)

The Thin Man has the best Christmas morning scene

And that would be correct. But I thought you weren't participating in this poll?

i am commenting

I have already secured image making services so I expect more than commentary

I watched It Happened On Fifth Avenue (1947). Rich and poor people switch roles in a New York mansion at Christmastime. Has its moments but could be better -- I'm not nominating it. Best part is Victor Moore as a homeless drunk who likes to cosplay as a rich man. For people who like innuendo in code-era Hollywood films, there's a scene where a woman is describing where she met her boyfriend that is taken to mean where her baby was conceived -- "and (Victor Moore) was there too!". Made into two Bollywood movies; the 70s one is on youtube and looks wild.

Compliments of the Season (1930)
The Christmas Party (1931)
A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives (1933)
Little Women (1933, and other versions I can't be bothered to look up)
The Night Before Christmas (1933)
Babes in Toyland (1934)
Jack Frost (1934)
La Grande Illusion (1937)
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Serendipity (2001)
Unaccompanied Minors (2006)
Far From Heaven (2002)
Christmas Holiday (1944)
The Reckless Moment (1949)
Making Christmas Crackers (1910)

The '30s arguably had Christmas on lockdown more than any other decade.

Meanwhile, I can't stop laughing.

16-year-old Lindsay Dearborn (Brooke Nevin) is "Too Cool for Christmas," and wants no part of the family celebration being planned by her two male homosexual parents (Adam Harrington and Barclay Hope) and her kid sister Alexa (Jodelle Ferland. Nope, Lindsay is gonna spend the holidays skiing with her best buds, and that's the way it is. Her disdain for the Yuletide season comes to surface at the mall, where she disses a department store Santa Claus (played by George Hamilton) for his tacky beard and out-of-date clothing. Surprisingly, Santa agrees with Lindsay and asks her to help him undergo a complete "fashion makeover" so that he can win back the affections of Mrs. Claus (played by Donna Mills) Out of sympathy for the old guy, Lindsay does what he asks, then is informed that he's the genuine, bonafide, not-a-phony Santa Claus--and further, that he needs her help to deliver all his presents on Christmas Eve. Agreeing on the condition that she'll be back in town in time to go skiing, Lindsay embarks upon the thrill ride of her life--and in the course of the long winter's night, she learns a few lessons about the true meaning of Christmas. An alternate version of the film, which exchanges the homosexual couple for a straight one, was named A Very Cool Christmas and appeared on the Lifetime channel in December 2004.

thanksgiving:
House of Yes
The Daytrippers
*(dis)honorable mention to Eli Roth’s ‘Thanksgiving’ short from Grindhouse

xmas:
The Holly and the Ivy
White Reindeer
Christmas Evil
Grumpy Old Men

hannukah:
The Hebrew Hammer
For Your Consideration

nye
Snowpiercer
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Ocean’s 11 (1962)

perhaps too incidental? I dunno, what do you think?
Inside aka À l'intérieur (2007) – takes place on Christmas Eve
LA Confidential – the whole “Bloody Christmas” affair
Go (1999) – takes place during Christmastime
Nobody’s Fool (1994) – plot hinges on a Thanksgiving get-together
An American Tail – begins w/ a Hannukah context

The Christmas Chronicles (surprised to like this so much)

not necessarily because i like them

The Muppet Christmas Carol
Klaus (2019)
Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
White Christmas (Curtiz, 1954)
Babes in Toyland (1961)
Arthur Christmas
Christmas on Mars
Saving Christmas
Dekalog 3 but maybe this is more of a tv episode? idk

As I completely spaced out my Thursday-centric due dates, I am extending nomination period for at least another 12 to 24 hours.

(Gonna save the Dekalog ep for next year's poll.)

Also, I do believe it's Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas, which slots alphabetically right after King of Kings

8 Women

currently watching the recently resurfaced 1978 Canadian noir Silent Partner w/ Elliott Gould and Christopher Plummer, and fuck yes this qualifies

OK, nominations are closed, with 175 entries. Firing up the campaigning/voting thread imminently.

exclude everything where ppl said "I am not recommending this"

Did anyone say that explicitly?

(I probably did exclude in any case.)

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id have unironically nominated carreys grinch

we're no angels

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/12/christmas-movies-hallmark-romantic-comedy/621045/