From the December 4, 2014, New York Times "Enties in the Silver Bell Sweepstakes" by Matc Spitz.
Mr. Spitz is looking for "Classic Christmas Movies." He looked at several well-known Christmas movies and made a decision as to whether they were classic or not. He gave a lot of information about each one of the movies he looked at.
"It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) Probably the most celebrated one. Originally a commercial flop, but made money from reruns on TV and was even in the public domain for awhile so stations did not have to pay to show it. NBC has shown it a couple times already and it will be shown against tonight, Christmas Eve.
This movie still gets me at the end as I tear up. It is just too much. And, I love all the small town America circa the 1940s.
"ELF" ( 2003)-- Starring Will Farrell as Buddy, a human raised by Santa's elves at the North Pole and his difficulty fitting in with humans. Spitz says classic. I do also. Kind of a "Big" of a different sort.
And then there's the one I'll watch tonight and off and on the next 24-hours, "A Christmas Story."
I'll talk about this one tomorrow.--DaChristmasCoot
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