Happy Tuesday!!! Yesterday I went straight from work to post office errands to dinner to bed, so no blog post. But today, extra long work day so loads of time to write!
Here is where you get to ask me anything from “what do you think about [gossip story]?” to “are you going to see Animal?” Just keep swinging back here all week as you think of new questions!
Now, question for you! What is your favorite Christmas movie (Indian or otherwise)?
We are a White Christmas family. It’s corny, it’s fun, it’s pretty, and it’s also legitimately funny in some parts. Second choice, Muppets Christmas Carol. Surprisingly good!
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My favourite Christmas movie is still The Family Man.
Margaret, how was your Thanksgiving?
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Hello! My Thanksgiving was lovely and lazy. Spent the day itself hanging out at my parents for 10 hours in a very lowkey way. We watched a little of the National Dog Show, we had dinner and dessert, they napped while I read my book for a bit, extremely pleasant.
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I am arguing with someone that Amitabh Bachchan was the first true superstar in Indian cinema. I hope you can help me with some evidence. Also I am currently rereading, Little Women which is so good for the holiday season. Would it be possible to do for a DCIB book club one day? Little Women and Good Wives?
My favourite Christmas Movie is ‘While you were Sleeping’ or rather it’s always the christmas movie I start the season with. I love too many corny christmas movie to choose one.
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From what I know, it was Rajesh Khanna – the first true superstar apparently of Hindi cinema. Don’t know about all of India.
Sorry this doesn’t back up your premise!
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I’d say the same! That sort of mass madness, and hit films just because of his name, and the mega-power over producers started with Rajesh.
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I would agree except it was only for 2 years. Though during that time, he was such a sensation.
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Well, what’s a superstar? There isn’t a lot of attention paid to colonial cinema, and most of the silent movies at least have been lost. However, there were certainly huge stars that crossed over industries in both the silent and sound eras. How about Dabke?
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Down for a book club but it makes me so sad even now that Jo and Laurie don’t end up together!
Saira
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Are you going to watch Animal?
I’m not. I can’t stand Ranbir.
Are you going to watch Sam Bahadur?
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I’m trying to coordinate it now!
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Please let us know how it was and then I can decide to go if it is worthwhile
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I’m on 3 weeks leave to recover from the severe depression and anxiety I find myself in after the workplace incident. I saw the doctor yesterday and found that no wonder I’m struggling so much because this is not my usual degree or intensity of mental health difficulty that I’m coping with.
Somehow the one event has thrown everything way off.
I don’t have a question because I’m recognizing that I can’t solve it, I need to follow the doctor’s advice. But I wanted to share it here with my peeps.
So glad I have this place of warmth, connection, support and safety!
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Yes, follow the doctor’s advice! Which I hope also included getting out of the house and going for walks and getting enough sleep and all those nice things.
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Oh it started with leave. After that I need to see a therapist for a plan and potentially try medication for the short term
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I don’t have a favorite Christmas movie. In my household Christmas day was usurped by my sister’s birthday celebration and my right wing Hindu family wouldn’t want to celebrate the “Christian” festival. So I haven’t gotten into the habit of celebrating Christmas.
In your opinion what makes for a good Christmas movie?
I do remember a sex and the city episode where Carrie goes to Miranda’s house on Christmas Eve, that left a mark in my memory.
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Just put up my new artificial tree. It’s much bigger than my last one and it looks great!
My favorite Christmas movie is a weird little indie from 1998 called Hi-Life, but it’s just set on Christmas Eve in NYC, not necessarily about Christmas. I love the two most recent Little Women remakes. My family has always watched Christmas Vacation, but recently my nieces and nephew love Daddy’s Home 2, even over Elf.
Of course, being the rom-com fan that I am, I do like Love Actually and a lot of cheesy Hallmark movies (I have about ten or so on DVD that are rewatchable every year). For a fun and raunchy Christmas-y rom-com, I do like Netflix’s Holidate and I seem to watch that one every year since it came out, too! Also loved Home for Christmas, the Norwegian limited series, on Netflix and the Italian remake I Hate Christmas.
Do you have a favorite Hallmark Christmas movie? Or have you even seen any?
I’m going to try to see Animal this weekend or next. I feel like it needs to be seen in a theater!
~filmilibrarian
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I love Holidate too! And I just re-watched it this week!
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Holidate is so good. I love it.
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I was thinking and thinking of WHAT my favorite Christmas movie could be, especially since I’ve seen a bunch of christmas romances lately. But romance is such a specific category. What do I want to see EVERY Christmas? Probably the older cartoon version of the Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Short, sweet, and funny. Which reminds me, it is time to get out the Christmas picture books. Even the 14 year old will still cuddle up while I read the Night Before Christmas.
But currently my favorite Christmas Romance would probably be the Hating Game, which isn’t really a CHRISTMAS movie, but Christmas trees are in it. But then if all it takes is a tree, I could say When Harry Met Sally, but I overdosed on it during my younger years so now I don’t really WANT to turn it on.
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Thoughts about animal? Considering that you r one of those very rare cinephiles who liked Kabir singh…
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From the modern ones, probably Love Actually and The Holiday. I don’t have a tradition of watching Christmas movies so haven’t watched many of the old classics. I really like Remember the Night with Barbara Stanwyck-Fred MacMurray, has good and kind characters and a great romance.
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Remember the night is too sad for me!
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Dunki drop 3 out now – https://youtu.be/Kp95Wat3YsA?si=fyXbVGfSSQuWHtvL
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Animal Reviews are out. It’s supposed to be a self bloated tale of narcissism. I would love to read your review 😉
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I had a bad headache last night so I didn’t go, sounds like the right choice! I was in no mood for a bloated tale of narcissism.
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I’m reading some dialogues from the film. Some of the lines are ‘You have a nice pelvis, good for childbearing’ and apparently Ranbir does some questionable actions with his love life. Tripti is useless and so is Anil and Bobby.
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Gosh – great interview from Shabana about origins and quality of Hindi cinema. So fascinating. – https://youtu.be/h-T7uU16IEI?si=2qdRqCZo4h2SSNA6
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