Tag: It’s a Wonderful Life
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The Only Major Actors Still Alive From It’s A Wonderful Life
“It’s A Wonderful Life” is an unforgettable classic that renews itself every holiday season. The striking narrative articulates strong morals, like the importance of family and an individual’s importance in a community, punctuated by almost hallucinogenic imagery of the ground opening up beneath one’s feet. It’s a heartwrenching picture made all the emotional by the…
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Steven Spielberg Turned Gremlins From a Horror Film Into a Holiday Classic
With the arrival of the Christmas season, so begins the time when film lovers start rewatching their favorite holiday classics. Many of the usual names make this list, like It’s a Wonderful Life, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, and Elf. There’s also more edgy content such as the slasher Black Christmas and the much argued about…
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Why The Final Scene Of White Christmas Was Reshot Without Bing Crosby…and Without Film
We all have our go-to holiday movie classics. “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Home Alone” quickly come to mind, but another holiday staple for me is “White Christmas.” Starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kay, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen, the film follows singers Bob Wallace (Crosby) and Phil Davis (Kaye), who have been pounding the pavement as…
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The Daily Stream: Mr. Smith Goes To Washington Is Chicken Soup For The Cinephile’s Soul
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Movie: “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”Where You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: An idealistic young senator enters the corrupt “wilds of Washington” D.C., where he…
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Peter Capaldi: ‘Don’t worry, I don’t suddenly think I’m a rock star’
The actor on political corruption, the genius of Terence Davies and making a solo album in his 60sPeter Capaldi, 63, studied at Glasgow School of Art and landed his breakthrough acting role aged 24 on the film Local Hero. He’s best known for his Bafta-winning performance as spin doctor Malcolm Tucker in political satire The…
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I raised my kids on Pixar – and it has ruined classic cinema for them | Zoe Williams
Having grown up on Toy Story and Up, this generation has zero tolerance for slow pacing or only mild amusementI was recently scrolling through Christmas films at the cinema opposite the kids’ school, picturing the happy scene where I arrive unexpectedly outside the gates, on 17 December or thereabouts, wearing flashing reindeer horns, and bear…