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As far as Christmas movies go, I have some that become a yearly watch if I have time like The Shop Around The Corner, The Holiday, and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. There's a few "bummer" Christmas movies that I will alo throw on, like Mon Oncle Antoine and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence.

I also dearly love The Muppet Christmas Carol, but my family's absolute must-watch every Christmas Eve is The Muppet Family Christmas. It was a TV special from 1987, and we had a VHS recording of it that we wore out as kids. They did make a limited DVD of it, which is next to impossible to find and is out of print due to some of the music in it. I managed to find a digital copy of it, and we watch it every year. It is excellent and (like a lot of old Muppets stuff) still quite funny, and it also has Sesame Street and Fraggles in it for good measure!

And oh look at that, it's on YouTube!

 
LeSamourai said:
I'm thinking tomorrow I'm gonna pull a Donald Draper and leave work early to have an affair and start my descent into alcoholism see a movie (I'm thinking Parasite).
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I love doing this. I don't have the position/power to just walk out midday without explanation, but every few months I'll take a half day due to "exhaustion" and catch a matinee. I'm the only one on my team here today and 90% of the rest of the department is out. I might dip out at lunch, hit up a dispensary, and do my duty as an American nerd and see the Star War.
 
If anyone's a Malick fan, A Hidden Life is a good return to form if you weren't digging his post Tree of Life output. Somehow Malick has become slightly culturally relevant with the topic, which really wrestles with how important resistance to bigotry can be is if there is no immediate threat to you, or any platform for your sacrifice to stand on. I think this theme really carries the film more than his other work, as it feels genuine and unpretentious, and timely due to the rise of extreme right movements.

It's shot amazingly well but perhaps a little too long like most Malick-reinssance films (a few folks walked out of my screening), but it really comes together like his best work.
 
zombie.modernist said:
If anyone's a Malick fan, A Hidden Life is a good return to form if you weren't digging his post Tree of Life output. Somehow Malick has become slightly culturally relevant with the topic, which really wrestles with how important resistance to bigotry can be is if there is no immediate threat to you, or any platform for your sacrifice to stand on. I think this theme really carries the film more than his other work, as it feels genuine and unpretentious, and timely due to the rise of extreme right movements.

It's shot amazingly well but perhaps a little too long like most Malick-reinssance films (a few folks walked out of my screening), but it really comes together like his best work.
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I’m hoping this makes it way into theaters here. I’m not a massive Malick fan, but I love Tree Of Life. And this movie looks gorgeous, so I would love to be able to see it on the big screen. Also I’ve read mixed things, which I’m just taking as being the norm for Malick. He’s not a perfect filmmaker, but when he hits, it really makes a mark on me.
 
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