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Issue 42: Holidays

December 2016

Its a Wonderful Life | art by Brianna Ashby

It’s a Wonderful Life?

Chad Perman·
Issue 42: Holidays
We flock to It’s a Wonderful Life because it’s our therapy, a culturally endorsed, holiday-approved balm for all the miseries and disappointments that pile up around us with each passing year. Read More
Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis | MGM

Right Here Where We Live

Erika Schmidt·
Issue 42: Holidays
Meet Me in St. Louis and the gap between what we want the holidays to be and what they actually are. Read More

The Soft Glow of Electric Sex

Kara Shroyer·
Issue 42: Holidays
A Christmas Story, children who dream of growing up, and adults who dream of being young again. Read More

Metropolitan, or How I Learned to Stop Kvetching and Love Christmas

Ben Mauk·
Issue 42: Holidays
Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan has the appeal of being both a Christmas movie and an anthropological study of goy life among the upper crusties. Read More

Le petit juif

Karina Wolf·
Issue 42: Holidays
A movie about Christmas is a movie about rituals as well as magic. Read More

Spielberg Nipping at Your Nose

Jonathan Foster·
Issue 42: Holidays
Spielberg believes in magic all right, Christmas or otherwise. Read More

Um, Actually, The Holiday is a Good Movie

Fran Hoepfner·
Issue 42: HolidaysNew Releases
Not all movies are cinema; The Holiday is certainly not cinema—but it is upbeat and kind and romantic and Jude Law is just, like, extremely hot here. Read More

When Christmas Cheer Sounds Like Panic: The West Wing’s ‘Noël’

Mary Bolton·
Issue 42: Holidays
Processing pain and tragedy is a place where The West Wing succeeds as a show, picking and prodding at a wound until it hurts, so that the healing can begin. Read More

You’ve Got Mail: Or, How A Story About Catfishing Is Getting Me Through This Holiday Season

Sarah Welch-Larson·
Issue 42: Holidays
It feels good to watch familiar characters behave the way we know they will, to let a movie carve a groove into your heart. Read More
The Christmas Shoes (2002) | CBS

In Defense of Sentimental Schlock: A Taxonomy of Made-for-Television Holiday Films

Elisabeth Geier·
Issue 42: Holidays
Add a little eggnog to that rum. Settle in to your corner of the couch. Turn on the flatscreen. Refer to this guide to made-for-television holiday films. Read More

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