What Films Would You Like Underneath Your Christmas Tree?

12.16.11 |
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CHristmas movies: What Films Would You Like Underneath Your Christmas Tree?Happy holidays from MovieFanFare!

With Christmas right around the corner, I thought I’d pose a simple question to you faithful readers out there: what movies do you hope to recieve this year?

Did you ask Santa for any cinema classics or recent releases this year? Or do you just hope that Jolly Old Saint Nick brings some TV gift sets down your chimney?

Regardless of what you religious affiliation is, we are curious about what DVDs and Blu-rays you are wishing for right now whether you celebrate the season or not. So let us know in the comments!

Ho! Ho! Ho!

  • http://www.moviesunlimited.com Edward Frebowitz

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  • frankiedc

    I am lucky enough to have most of the films I love available on dvd, but there are still some which have not been released yet. They include:

    !) The infamously high camp “Cobra Woman” with Maria Montez

    2) the wonderful screen adaptation of DuMaurier’s “My Cousin Rachel” with Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton, an early fifties Fox black and white romance classic.

    3) “Independence Day”, not the Will Smith sci fi movie but a wonderfully low keyed domestic drama with a wonderful cast including Kathleen Quinlan, Frances Sternhagen and a brilliant performance by Dianne Wiest.

    4)”The Firefly”, a thirties Jeanette Mc Donald-Alan Jones musical which far outshines the McDonald-Nelson Eddy films of the same time period.

    5)”Who Will Love My Children” a made for tv tearjerker with Ann Margaret heartbreaking as a dying woman forced to find families for her numerous children.

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  • Quasiblu

    BOOM! (1968) directed by Joseph Losey. Out-of-print. Starring Taylor and Burton. Does anyone want to make me very very happy??

  • OZ Rob

    Boom is available down here in OZ.It is in a five disc set,titled Hollywood Classics, which also contains the much sought after Desert Fury,47..
    I would like, China Gate & a remastered Run of the Arrow by S. Fuller,,also The Naked Dawn,,E Ulmer & Greed ,,1925 & Forever Amber,,47 & lots more !!….

  • Movie Fan

    I’d love to have a DVD copy of “The Uninvited” with Ray Milland. I’d also love a DVD copy of “Westward the Women” with Robert Taylor. There are a lot of classic Disney films I’ve never seen, such as Fantasia. I’d love a DVD set of all the seasons of Babylon 5, plus the movies.

  • joemart4731

    I would like to get the DVD of J’accuse with Jose Ferrar. Can anyone tell me where to get the DVD?

  • Kinoprofi

    I’d like to see the Warner Archive Collection
    release “Beyond The Forest” as they have issued most of her other films; also would like to see
    Universal release “The Spiderwoman Strikes
    Back” with Gale Sondergaard and Rondo Hatton. It’s
    one big ommission in the Universal horror canon.

    • Oyeniran

      Jehosh27 on October 20, 2011 Well, the cotsent is over now, but I think The Last Samurai would be great. You start off with a gun, and know next to nothing about swords. (how about the indian raid for the tutorial?) and as the game progresses, factions come into view, and you can side with whomever you want. Multiple, alternate endings, and even alternate fighting styles. Maybe Algren fights AGAINST the samurai at the end? it would be a very fun game, I think, especially if Bioware made it.

  • Heather B.

    Why isn’t 1939′s “Wuthering Heights” on DVD in the US????????????

    • Jaynie

      dcaseowel on September 11, 2011 god he’s a smug, sanctimonious little doucher. What the fuck does he care about various Apple apps? If you don’t like one, don’t use it. Don’t preach to others just because you don’t agree, or advocate limiting their freedom of speech. The majority of Americans DO believe abortion is murder, so Apple is actually destroying the rights of the majority because of a loud minority of leftist whiners who want to censor anything with which they don’t agree.Which is pretty typical of the left.

  • allen e

    There are a couple of Holiday films.

    1. The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t

    2. The Miracle On 34th Street (TV Version from 1973 with Sebastian Cabot as Santa)

  • Harry Lyme

    1, The Train at a reasonable price;

    2. The Suspect (Charles Laughton)

    3. The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

    4. Watchable copies of Beat the Devil and Hitchcock’s The Secret Agent. Every one I have seen of the former is washed out.

  • Harry Lyme

    And add to my list and Heather’s, Wuthering Heights

  • frankd

    Just dump a big load of black and white classics under the tree!

  • Jack Jones

    FRANKD, I second the motion.

  • diacad

    Seven is a lucky number, so here goes:

    #1 A boxed DVD set of all eight restored Eddy/MacDonald MGM musicals. A couple are out already.

    #2 DVD reissues of Nelson Eddy’s “Let Freedom Ring” and “Chocolate Soldier”, to prove he can act as well as sing – even without Jeanette!

    #3 A boxed DVD set of Grace Moore’s films. The ones out there now are often unwatchable.

    #4 A boxed DVD set of Jan Kiepura and/or Martha Eggerth films, suitably subtitled where necessary.

    #5 A boxed DVD set of all available Lilian Harvey and/or Willy Fritsch films with subtitles.

    #6 If I can’t have #5, then a good DVD of Lilian Harvey and Gene Raymond in “I Am Suzanne”. This is in English. The copy I have is really bad.

    #7 A DVD, with english subtitles, of the Japanese wartime full-length cartoon “Momotarō: Umi no Shinpei”, now only available in youtube segments. This film is widely acknowledged as the granddaddy of Anime!

  • Gord

    Unreleased “a Hatful of Rain”, “From Hell to Texas”, “Gigot”, “The Wayward Bus”, “The Sound and the Fury”, the entire Bomba the Jungle boy series, “Beau James” and too many others to list. Query: if Fox can release “Texas” and others offshore, why can’t they release them and others like those requested above, in NTSC for North American audiences? And what is Paramount’s problem with “Beau James?” It’s not a musical, so I can’t see music rights being the holdup. A lump of coal to Fox, Paramount, Universal and all others for sitting on their archived fifties/early sixties gems.

  • Mary Winders

    I was glad to finally find to find The Lemmon Drop Kid DVD. I hope that Westward The Woman that star Robert Taylor would be available on DVD.

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  • bunson

    The Gangster Chronicles with Michael Nouri

  • http://twitter.com/LarryCox6 Larry J. Cox

    A boxed set of Joan Davis movies. I’m not looking for Art–I just want to watch Joan in flicks like The Traveling Saleslady, and Kansas City Kitty.