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Rudolph the red Nose Reindeer! The old claymation one! I have to watch them all though, some time before Christmas day!

So funny, I was just thinking about this the other night while I was baking!

I watched Julie & Julia twice on my laptop, then switched to Elf :-)

Die Hard!

When I was a kid it was always 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'. Now I have started to watch it again with our six year old son. It always reminds me of the Christmas Holidays.

Elf might be my favorite xmas movie, the soundtrack is excelent - The best way to spread Christmas Cheer, is singing loud for all to hear.

Last weekend I made cookies with Elf on the laptop next to me. But if I had White Christmas on DVD, that would be my second choice!

Heh - our Christmas movie is The Long Kiss Goodnight. It happens over the christmas holidays, see? It's got a santa costume, and christmas lights! SEASONAL CHEER!

Die hard 1 and 2, lethal weapon, and kiss kiss bang bang.

This year it was Goodfellas!

We watch Love Actually and the Pee Wee's Playhouse Christmas special!

I tend to watch musicals while I'm cooking year-round, so A Muppet Christmas Carol, Nightmare Before Christmas, all the classic claymations, A Charlie Brown Christmas, How the Grinch Stole Christmas (NOT the creepy new one), etc.

If you can sing and dance to it, you can cook to it!

Elf is a favorite of mine year-round. Also can't go wrong with Love, Actually and, of course, the classic Rudolph (with Clarice!)

we keep the 24 hours marathon of the Christmas story going in the background every Christmas. Everyone gets called into the living room for our favorite lines and scenes.

But the lead up to the holidays always always includes a Charlie Brown Christmas Story, the old Grinch and White Christmas.

The original Miracle on 34th Street!

We watch Love Actually, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, Elf, and Trading Places. Obviously as we added the newer movies, we've had to make more time during the holiday season to fit them in, but we've managed to use it as an excuse to make more holiday goodies while watching!

Home Alone!

Christmas Vacation!

We watch a Christmas-themed movie nearly every night between Thanksgiving and New Year's, but I tend to do my baking to stacks of Christmas CDs playing loud on the stereo. We've got everything from Burl Ives to Brian Setzer (and everything in between!).

Dulce, I'm with you!

SCROOGED!!!!!

ELF!!!!

Absolutely NOT a Christmas movie, but for some reason for the last several years I find myself watching Breakfast at Tiffany's at the holidays. Have no idea why, but now it's worked it's way into a tradition for me I guess...

Love Actually. :)

"We elves like to stick to the four basic food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corn, and syrup."

How can you not love Elf...

Fanny and Alexander has become a tradition. A perfect balance of darkness and light. We pick a night and get settled in to transport ourselves to Sweden. It is an absolute feast for the senses.

Love Actually and All I Want For Christmas (the 90's movie with a young Thora Birch- my all time favourite Christmas movie!)

My new favorite is Elf. I like the thought of Breakfast at Tiffany's. But then I will need to watch Auntie Mame too!!

I need to get a copy of Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory...yes, the one where he narrates it. I love that...I love the actual story too!

I can't watch Love Actually with my 9 year old but I adore that movie. I also cry like a baby at the very end every.single.time.

I almost forgot Little Women! Watching it makes me feel so cozy.

Anyone remember The Ref? I used to love that movie and demanded we watch it every year. Now I'm just cycling through old Pushing Daisies episodes. They're not holiday movies but they strike the right aesthetic tone.

Wow, there's a lot of love for "Love, Actually" a movie in my mind made bearable only by the presence of Bill Nighy. But, to each his own!

Some version of "A Christmas Carol" would be my ideal. There are quite a few very good ones. I have a dear friend who has a pile of Xmas movies that she starts watching right after T'giving, and she is very partial to "The Bishop's Wife" with Cary Grant and David Niven, and it's hard to argue with that one. I think the remake with Denzel W. was sweet too.

"The Bishop's Wife" all the way. If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and rent it before Christmas. It's perfect.

I heart "Love Actually."

But, give me "A Charlie Brown Christmas" any day!

I love "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" - the cartoon version. I have watched that since I was a kid, and frequently quote it throughout the year :)

Two greatest Christmas films of all time are:

1 - A Christmas Story (I mean, it's a classic, even if it is annoying that it's replayed for 24 hours straight)

2 - Die Hard

Must Watching:

"A Christmas Carol" with George C. Scott (hard to believe it originally aired on network TV), "White Christmas", "The Bishop's Wife" with Cary Grant, "Trading Places", most of the old Rankin-Bass specials like Rudolph, and "Elf" (a new favorite).

I watch the first Bridget Jones on New Years.

Shop Around the Corner is a beautiful old/black and white Christmas movie, but I was very surprised at how much I loved Elf.

I know it's past xmas but I had to jump in! I watch Love Actually and A Muppet Christmas Carol while cooking/wrapping and the claymation Rudolph while decorating :)