The same team who presented "The Directors" series on Sky Arts, were brought together for the first time to discuss Christmas movies. It was good to see them all talking to each other, Ian Nathan, Neil Norman, Stephen Armstrong, Derek Malcolm and Bonnie Greer are always worth listening to.
However, and for once, I was very disappointed with their, or their producer's selection. These films can hardly be festive fun: King Kong, Mary Poppins, Laurel and Hardy, To Catch a Thief, The Tale of Winter, The Sound of Music, Rear Window, Fargo, The Apartment, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Shop Around the Corner. I could see that We're No Angels (not a film with which I am familiar from 1955, but could be interesting), Trading Places and The Bishop's Wife might just be appropriate for Christmas.
So we are left with Miracle on 34th Street (the old black and white original but no mention of the Richard Attenborough remake), White Christmas (why no mention of the earlier Holiday Inn whose big song White Christmas led to the loosely plotted remake of the same name), Scrooged, Die Hard, Fanny and Alexander and, of course, It's a Wonderful Life. But no mention of more recent films such as the superior Love Actually, The Holiday, The Man Who Invented Christmas and (heaven help us) Office Christmas Party.
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