Thanks - though I'm not that good on Chistmas films, so hopefully others will jump in. Someone posted a list a little while back, but I can't find the post right now. Coonigan's got some good titles in his reply to your post. If you want to get away from the cold weather, then Bush Christmas (1947) is a good Australian one, with some pleasing boyskin on display. I'm sure everyone will have their favourites. Mine would include the animation The Snowman (1982) - preferably the original version which starts with Raymond Briggs walking along a field in the English countryside narrating his inspiration for the story; there's something wonderfully melancholic about it. Then there's the 1951 Scrooge, still, in my opinion, the best adaptation of Dickens' short story, and starring Glyn Dearman as Tiny Tim. Is it a bit of a stretch to describe Fanny och Alexander (1982) as a Christmas movie? Perhaps, but it begins at Christmas, and has a certain delightful wintry charm. One of the best boy movies ever, in fact. Lost Hearts (1973) has even less claim to be a Christmas movie, it's sole connection with Christmas being that it was produced as part of the Beeb's A Ghost Story for Christmas series, and transmitted on Christmas Day. But what could be better than a ghost story at this time of year? It does contain the beautiful Simon Gipps-Kent. (It is out now on BFI blu-ray as Ghost Stories for Christmas Volume 1 - Region B/PAL format, so yanks will require multi-region players/TVs etc.). For comedy, I'll go for the yank film A Christmas Story (1983). "I remember a french one where the boy in a mansion goes rambo but i've forgotten the name of it." The only thing I can think of off-hand is Je suis le seigneur du château (1989), but I don't think it was Christmassy, so it can't be that. Hopefully, someone else will recognise what you're referring to. |