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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Le petit juif

Karina Wolf·
Issue 42: Holidays
A movie about Christmas is a movie about rituals as well as magic.
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Spielberg Nipping at Your Nose

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