Let's Organize The Holiday Movie Club for 2018

August 7, 2018 7:53 AM

Let's Organize The Holiday Movie Club for 2018! The Holiday Movie Club is when we watch heartwarming holiday films from, approximately, American Thanksgiving weekend (starting Wednesday, 21 November) to New Years Day. What's a holiday film? A film set during the holidays, or that deals with holiday themes, or that you have a tradition of watching during the holidays. If you have other holiday film traditions, you are welcome to post them too!

The Club Page and all prior posted movies are here. Please pick movies to post and watch, or rewatch, and add them to the event list.

Some selected movies to post:

The Family Stone
Die Hard 2
Iron Man 3
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Edward Scissorhands
While You Were Sleeping
A Very Harold And Kumar Christmas
About a Boy
The Ref
The Preacher's Wife
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Mystery Science Theater 3000: “Santa Claus”
Santa's Slay
Ghostbuster's 2
Rocky 4
Less than Zero
Things to Come
Monty Python's Life of Brian
The Shining
Black Christmas
Cronos
L.A. Confidential
Caligula
Mixed Nuts
Home for the Holidays
In Bruges
A Wish for Wings That Work
Silent Night
The Apartment
A Christmas Tale
Holidays On Ice
Eight Crazy Nights
The Great Santa Clause Switch
The Santa Clause 2
The Santa Clause 3
An American Christmas Carol
Diner
Rent
The Nice Guys
Metropolitan
Meet Me in St. Louis!
Christmas In Connecticut
Holiday Affair
Pieces of April
The House Of Yes
Monty Python's Meaning of Life
The Great Santa Claus Switch
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Franz Kafka’s It’s A Wonderful Life
The Night Before
A Christmas Carol (1951)
Reindeer Games
Polar Express
Jingle All the Way
The Snowman
Catch Me If You Can
Prometheus (?)
The Family Man
The Holiday
This Christmas
Just Friends
The Ice Harvest
Four Christmases
Christmas With The Kranks
Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
The Hebrew Hammer
Millions
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Thin Man
Go
ADBC: A Rock Opera
For Your Consideration
Star Wars Holiday Special
Sunset Boulevard
The Poseidon Adventure
Four Rooms
When Harry Met Sally
Money Train
The Godfather Part II
Boogie Nights
200 Cigarettes
Bridget Jones' Diary
New Year's Evil
New Year's Eve
Oceans 11
Better Luck Tomorrow
Sleepless in Seattle
The Gold Rush
Radio Days
Strange Days
Arthur Christmas
Lassie (2006)
Prancer
Unaccompanied Minors
While You Were Sleeping
A Christmas Carol
Santa’s Slay
The Junky’s Christmas
A Pink Christmas
Santa Claus Conquers The Martians
Black Christmas
Tales from the Crypt: And all Through the House...
Silent Night, Deadly Night
12 Dates of Christmas
Fred Claus
The Great Turkey Rescue
Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
Nobody's Fool
New Years Day

posted by the man of twists and turns to Holiday Movie Club (16 comments total)

What no Gremlins?
posted by ian1977 at 11:17 AM on August 7, 2018 [1 favorite]

Alice's Restaurant
posted by cichlid ceilidh at 11:17 AM on August 7, 2018

Oops, nevermind. Gremlins in the past movies list.
posted by ian1977 at 11:18 AM on August 7, 2018

i fear its playing with evil forces to even have the Star Wars holiday special anywhere on the list....
posted by Faintdreams at 4:06 PM on August 7, 2018

Pieces of April

Elf
posted by fluttering hellfire at 5:27 PM on August 7, 2018

Desk Set
posted by amapolaroja at 11:41 PM on August 7, 2018

The Great Escape

/Brit
posted by arcticseal at 3:58 AM on August 8, 2018 [1 favorite]

I might have a bit of a bias, but I strongly feel that Blood Freak needs to be a Thanksgiving-weekend event.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:48 AM on August 8, 2018

Nightmare Before Christmas.

It's a Christmas film and a Halloween film, there I said it.
posted by PearlRose at 9:15 AM on August 8, 2018

These are all great suggestions, please put them on the club events list.

Also it looks like we're doing "A Christmas Carol" week from the 9th to the 16th.

The Muppet Christmas Carol - Sunday, Dec 9
Scrooge (1970) - Monday, Dec 10
Rich Little's A Christmas Carol - Tuesday, Dec 11
A Christmas Carol: The Musical (2004) - Wednesday, Dec 12
A Christmas Carol (1999) - Thursday, Dec 13
A Christmas Carol (1984) - Friday, Dec 14
A Christmas Carol (1951) - Saturday, Dec 15
Scrooged - Sunday, Dec 16
posted by the man of twists and turns at 9:23 AM on August 8, 2018

The Santa Clause with Tim Allen is my family's favorite!
posted by Hermione Granger at 11:22 AM on August 8, 2018

I have a Thanksgiving tradition of watching Titan A.E. And I see it's yet to make it on to Fanfare.

What's the etiquette for Events? Just pick a day?
posted by zinon at 11:51 AM on August 8, 2018

Yup!
posted by the man of twists and turns at 11:54 AM on August 8, 2018

For most Hollywood films, Christmas = snowy US, snowy UK, etc. Or maybe sunny California, but still in the winter holidays for that country.

Are there any great movies about Christmas in unsnowy lands like New Zealand or Australia?
posted by pracowity at 3:55 AM on August 9, 2018

Noise is an Australian film about tinnitus set around Christmastime
posted by fluttering hellfire at 7:05 PM on August 9, 2018

It's starting....
posted by the man of twists and turns at 1:35 PM on October 31, 2018