It's Christmastime at the Movies An A-Z Guide of Our Favorite Holiday Films

by Gary J. Svehla

Book Overview

Each Christmas we shamelessly wallow in sweet sentiment brought to us courtesy of Hollywood, a glittering Tinsel Town filled with holiday spirit. It wouldn’t seem like Christmas if we didn’t spend... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188766419X
• ISBN13: 9781887664196
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.8" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

must have list for holiday movie viewing

Every year during the holidays we curl up in front of the TV to watch our holiday favorites. But with so many holiday movies turning up, it's difficult to remember our faves! This book helps us remember our favorites and reminds us to make sure to set aside time to see them.

full of holiday cheer

I love this book. It is filled with my favorite Christmas movies. It was completely revised in 2003, so those nasty negative reviews have nothing to do with the new version, although I have the earlier version also and found no such problems as they stated. I've given this book many times as a Christmas present to the movie lovers on my list and every one has loved it! I can't tell you how much I enjoy reading about my favorite holiday movies like Holiday Inn, Christmas Vacation, and A Christmas Story. And the White Christmas write up is so emotional, it brought tears to my eyes. If you love Christmas movies, you'll love this book!

Good source for Christmas movies

I really enjoyed this book. It contains all of my favorite Christmas movies. Plus, it contained some movies I had never heard of. Based on the reviews, I have been checking out these unheard of movies (at least for me). I found 2 movies and were able to see them on TCM or AMC. They were Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck (she was wonderful) and Bachelor Mother with Ginger Rogers (she didn't need Fred) and David Niven. These were truly delightful movies and I would never have thought to watch them without the book. I pull out the book around Thanksgiving (I guess I'll have to pull it out even earlier now that Christmas promotions are starting in September!) and check the TCM and AMC website to see if any of the movies I'm interested in are playing. If you want a good reference source for your holiday viewing, this book is for you. It has great pictures, too!

A Heartfelt Endeavor

In the interest of full disclosure, I should mention that I've contributed a scattered word or two to "It's Christmas Time at the Movies." So have a good many other writers, all of whom drop all highfalutin' film-critic baggage for the occasion and revel wholeheartedly in the opportunity to reminisce about many favorite (and some not-so-favorite) Yuletide pictures.That's the beauty of the book, which at once attempts a near-comprehensive inventory and then encourages its commentators to write from the heart. In December of 2001, I turned over one of our Fort Worth Film Festival auditoriums to a resurrection of the 1954 "White Christmas," which is arguably the centerpiece of "It's Christmas Time at the Movies." The showing sold out some 300 seats, and everybody seemed thoroughly well attuned to the film's message of common decency, camaraderie and good humor in the face of disappointment. Several of the audience members brought along copies of "It's Christmas Time at the Movies," if only to demonstrate their devotion to the main attraction.Just goes to show you how profoundly many of these season-specific movies have touched the Heartland Audience, and how this savvy book's refusal to reduce Christmas-movie commentary to eggheaded Cultural Analysis has established it as a treasure among the only audience that matters. The entire point is to take Film Appreciation down from the Ivory Tower and make it accessible to the mass audience -- something that Midnight Marquee Press has managed to accomplish across the board, with a lengthy track record and a hefty résumé of titles to prove it.

A lot of Fun

A collection of short pieces on every Christmas movie you can think of, and then some that you didn't think of.Each selection includes a plot summary, cast/credit list and behind the scenes goodies the gang at Midnight Marquee is famous for providing in their magazine (Midnight Marquee).My family and I had a great time with this collection, and I think you will too!