It’s a Wonderful life (1946), after all. Stewart, in his own favorite role, turns an amazing performance as building-and-loan man Bailey, who'd like to shake the dust of crummy little Bedford Falls from his shoes and see the world.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966) is a stroke of genius using former Frankenstein monster Karloff as the narrator and voice of the Grinch, especially since his vocal presence gives the early part of the cartoon a perfect, eerie quality.
A Christmas Carol (1951) is a harrowing, heartwarming and very British version of Dickens' original "All About Eve. The Nightmare before Christmas is a ghoulish imagination of Tim Burton, a story about the dark denizens of Halloween Town taking over Christmas as their own personal holiday. Welcome to Jean Shepard's hilarious childhood memoir of one particular gift as elusive as it is desirable: the Red Ryder BB Gun in A Christmas Story (1983).
Holiday movies, Christmas movies, that is- because who can think of even one film centered around Hanukkah?--are seasonal rites as reliable as mistletoe and commercialism. Get the best names in the top movies of the year at
Christmas Carnivals.
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