Now, we all know that I've got rubbish taste in everything but books, birds and bowwows, and that extends to Christmas movies, too. I've been making a list of the films I've got to watch in the next three weeks or miss my annual chance, and they are:
1) Love, Actually
2) Elf
3) Santa Claus - the Movie
4) Miracle on 34th Street (the modern one)
5) Scrooge (with Alastair Sim)
6) "Merry Christmas you old Building and Loan"
7) Great Expectations (the David Lean one)
But there's reading to be done, too. Christmas is when the best writing for children really comes into its own, so this time every year I have to read John Masefield's The Box of Delights and Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising (see previous blog post).
Ooh, fun! I'm excited now...
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how did you score? 7/7?
ReplyDeletei still must read those books!
i'm going to let you down as i've only seen 1 and 6 of those films. i'm not sure how. i like to watch mrs doubtfire at xmas but it eluded me. baby was sick two days running which allowed me to watch films two days running with madam on my knee (v unusual). sadly being 0930 in the morning my choice was restricted (no recordable tv), but i can recommend spy kids 2 and 3. festive family fun. did you see the bbc great expectations. apparently the casting caused a hoo haa. i thought gillian anderson was good, but it can't have been that brilliant as i only saw episodes 1 and three and didn't seem to miss much (coming from someone who has not read it). bit gloomy isn't it?