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The FIVE greatest Christmas MOVIES

Source: TOI
THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992)
There have been countless variants of Dickens' yuletide redemption story, including versions starring Mickey Mouse, The Jetsons and Mr Magoo. But the greatest of these by far is The Muppet Christmas Carol*. Having Jim Henson's famous felt creations anchor the film automatically punches up the fantastical elements of Dickens' narrative -after all, this is a story of ghosts, magic and time-travel. But it is Michael Caine's performance that makes it, and he acts opposite the Muppets as if they are flesh and blood. The seriousness with which he invests his performance makes it an explosion of emotion, a deeply felt interpretation of Dickens' story rather than a parody of it - showing that the smartest way to renew a classic isn't always with irony, but sincerity.
THE SNOWMAN (1982) Only 26 minutes long, director Dianne Jackson’s low-fi animated film adaptation of Raymond Briggs' children's book The Snowman* plays like visual music. Completely wordless, the story of a young boy in the English countryside who builds a snowman then flies off to the North Pole with him is full of stunning images: wild horses charging across a field, revelers on an
ocean liner, a whale slapping its tail into the sea, the northern lights shimmering over the Pole. Jackson makes her film look like crayon drawings in motion, suffused with wonder and melancholy - the result is as direct a line into a child's imagination as has been put on film.
idea of America than any other film. A panoramic slice of family life in the year leading up to the 1904 World's Fair in the Missouri city, 'Meet Me In St Louis* also presents what may be the original 'blue Christmas': distraught that she will spend her last one ever in her family
MEET ME IN ST LOUIS (1944) Projecting a world of gabled houses, picket fences, homemade ketchup and romances with the 'boy next door', Vincente Minnelli's 1944 Technicolor extravaganza has probably done more to define a particular
home, Judy Garland sings “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas*, a song shot through with wistfulness.
WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954)
As much of a Christmas confection as a candy cane, "White Christmas" is one of the holiday season's great
explosions of joy. It's a movie that really is the sum of its parts: perfectly constructed Irving Berlin songs, the peerless baritone of Bing Crosby, the manic comedic energy of Danny Kaye and the athletic dancing of Vera-Ellen. The story is compelling too: a couple of song-and-dance men want to stage a lavish tribute to their former commanding general in the US Army. But the decisions they make about the spectacle they're preparing involve thought-provoking questions of taste.
A STAR IN THE NIGHT (1945) Before he directed hard-boiled tali of conspiracy and crime like “Inva sion of the Body Snatchers”, 'Dirt Harry* and The Shootist’, directc Don Siegel made this delightful two-reel short film that serves as a subtle contemporary re-enactment of the birth of Christ. Somewhere in the American Southwest, three cowboys ride their horses toward < shining star in the sky - it's not a divine or celestial object but a blazing road sign for a small highway motel. There, Mary and Josepl seek shelter for the night, despite the no-vacancy sign outside - an< Mary and Joseph are reimagined as penniless Mexican migrant labourers.