Comfort and Joy
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And it's about the time of year to consider finding, rather than get stuck with holiday-special sitcom reruns before it's too late, or rewatching the same four classics yet again, a copy of Remember the Night (1940), or perhaps The Holly and the Ivy (1952), or Kino's A Christmas Past, a collection of "vintage holiday films" including D.W. Griffith’s fiercely moralistic A Trap for Santa (1909), the utterly lovely Edison film of realistic snowfall frolicking A Winter Straw Ride (1906), and Santa Claus (1925), an amateur film proudly shot on and around the Alaskan glaciers.
Just a quick note from a reader to thank you for the book...found your blog from I-don't-remember-where and learned about the book here. Lotta fun, good reading, interesting insights. On a somewhat random note, it was cool to see The Russia House in the "winter" section, not only because that movie deserves recognition in whatever form it can get, but because it made me think about how random our individual seasonal and other associations can be. For instance, I always associate TRH with (and watch it during) the christmas season, for no better reason than that I saw it the day before Christmas the year it came out (1990, I think?) before heading out for Christmas Eve family stuff, and just always associate the movie with that day in a kind of quasi-proustian way. In fact, I may just pop it in tonight since it's that time of year AND I'm out here in the snowy midwest. Anyway, thanks for the book and congrats on the reviews.
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