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Wonderful Life
In a season that tends to neglect subtext (which is why, perhaps, people have all of these stress and angst issues around now), Wendell Jamieson's New York Times piece on It's a Wonderful Life is beyond refreshing. Without denigrating the movie, it celebrates the classic for being more complicated than we tend to give it credit. Cheers to that.
Of course I won't be screening Frank Capra to my kids this year, or for a few years to come as far as I can tell. Actually, I won't be screening much at all for them, though I could be prepared to navigate all of the holiday Christmas specials with Dahlia Lithwick's help, though I confess to being a bit impatient with the whole genre, and since no one is actually requesting, I'm ignoring them for as long as I can.
For my own part I love movies where the holiday is secondary. I love Die Hard, for instance and would happily watch it again next week. Oh, and of course The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.
As for the kids, I think we'll just stick with the usual requests which tend to be to see Nigella Lawson cooking an old-fashioned chocolate cake. When I quizzed Felix about what he liked so much about Ms. Lawson, he said: "I love the way she talks." And here I was thinking her allure was elsewhere.
posted by Elise at 5:10 AM
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Laura K. Curtis said...
I, too, love Die Hard. Watched it just last week, in fact. The more current movies I watch, the more I appreciate the "classics."
12/19/2008 9:28 AM
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