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That season is almost upon us...we got down to 2°C yesterday! (I live in the warmest part of Canada lol.) Anyone else watching snowy movies throughout December?

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My docket:

The Conquest of the Pole (Georges Méliès, 1912)
South (Frank Hurley, 1919)
The Olympic Games Held at Chamonix in 1924 (Jean de Rovera, 1924)
Storm Over Asia (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1928)
The Trail of '98 (Clarence Brown, 1928)
Snowshoe Bandits (Uwe Jens Krafft, 1928)
The Triumph of the Heart (Gustaf Molander, 1929)
Snow Trail (Senkichi Taniguchi, 1947)
The White Reindeer (Erik Blomberg, 1952)
Track of the Cat (William A. Wellman, 1954)
Snow Country (Shirō Toyoda, 1957)
White Nights (Luchino Visconti, 1957)
Snow Job (George Englund, 1972)
Four Days of Snow and Blood (Hideo Gosha, 1989)
The Second Game (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2014)

plus a couple of Kurt Kren shorts I've been saving for Xmas day!!!!!

9/64: O Christmas Tree
10c/65: Brus wishes his Christmas on you

and I'll rewatch The Snowman (1982) like I do every year

I think this will also be the year I rewatch Metropolitan by Whit Stillman so I can finally decide once and for all now whether it should be in my top 125.

Suggestions welcome of course! I have an especial affinity for black-and-white depictions of snow!!

[rischka]

i may rustle up a repeat viewing of day of the outlaw this year

[thoxans]

i got santa claus (rene cardona) lined up. synopsis: 'with the aid of merlin, santa claus must defeat the evil machinations of the devil to ruin christmas.' i have no idea if it features snow, but it sounds like a fuxkin masterpiece either way

[liquidnature]

Always! I basically live my life in seasons, or at least they play a very important role for me. If I lived in a place that didn't have the four seasons, I'm not sure what I'd do.

Finally watched McCarey's Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) this morning, which was great - deserving of its acclaim, and definitely a winter film.

Thanks for the recs, bure! May add some of those to my winter watchlist.

We should have a Christmas thread too, perhaps?
A made a watchlist of personally unseen Christmas flicks here.

[rischka]

maybe i'll make a snowy western banner

[thoxans]

i like the motivation of these movie months. we got 31 days of october and noirvember. i feel like we used to have a month where it was all about westerns, but maybe i'm making that up...? idk

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for the past few years i've intended on doing westerns all summer, but i've just been bad at watching movies for the longest time...

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Got a bunch of wintry holidays movies lined for December, mostly Christmas-themed (so excited for Vanessa Hudgen's Netflix-Goes-Hallmark movie The Knight Before Christmas, no shame!) but also some snowy titles like The Great White Silence, In Spring (1929), The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1952), The Far Country, The Great Silence, etc.

I'm becoming committed to always having a seasonal theme going on, it's a nice way to feel connected to the seasons and it's a nice way to structure viewing. My plan for the months/seasons upcoming:

January - at first I thought a nice New Year theme would be adventure movies (pirates!) but now I'm leaning toward doing Chinese-Language New Year where I journey through Hong Kong cinema all month.
February - Valentine's, pick a movie star (probably Rock Hudson this year) and devotedly watch their movies for reasons of thirst/love/etc.
March, April, May - Spring Musicals!
June, July, August - Wild West Summer
September - Not sure. Back to School Movies? Girl Power?
October - Horror-ish halloween
November - Noirvember
December - Wintry holidays

[liquidnature]

this thread makes me happy. I'm such a dork. I buy calendars for each room of the house to reflect the seasons, and change my digital wallpapers to a selection of seasonal landscapes for each season. This really started for me when I was living in the wilderness of Idaho - where you have no choice but to the embrace the seasons in their fullness and adapt accordingly, or be miserable.

For me personally, Westerns are best suited for either:

a.) Summer
b.) August (the dog-days of summer, usually post-beach, post-swimming time of year)
c.) January-March. Before spring, in the barren winter, to contrast the sugary-sweet holidays. I usually end up watching countless reruns of Gunsmoke during this time every year, for some reason.

[liquidnature]

so excited for Vanessa Hudgen's Netflix-Goes-Hallmark movie The Knight Before Christmas, no shame!

As a shameless part-time partaker of Hallmark, especially the mysteries, I'm so going to watch this!

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

As a shameless part-time partaker of Hallmark, especially the mysteries, I'm so going to watch this!

Oh wow, I've never explored the Hallmark Cinematic Universe, but I'm now discovering there are literally umpteen of them and some of them look like just my kind of bad, romantic schmultz ! Just added A Winter Princess, SnowComing, and Mystery 101 to my 2019 watchlist. Will vulgar auteurism for chick flicks ever hit the big time, or will this portion of my taste in movies always be critically unapproved? Something to ponder over winter holidays...

[rischka]

ok it's time

[greennui]

https://vimeo.com/185374152

[sally]

bure!!!!! i looooooooove snow movies!

rischka, what film is that?

i still every so often fondly recall bronson's white buffalo from the 77 poll as a great snow movie. also molander's triumph of the heart, another great (silent) snowy thing.

the other day i watched and would recommend taniguchi's snow trail (very snowy, but also mifune's first role, in which he's briefly just in underwear, which is doubly pleasant)

[sally]

also i really like laila pakalniņa's suppressed-absurdist little docs, of which, snow crazy (sniegs) made me snigger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C493sJBVWJ0

[rischka]

it's day of the outlaw also bure might like the ugly king yilmaz güney's the hungry wolves which sally recommended me as a snowy film some years ago (2015)



if he hasn't seen it already! very snowy, nearly a whiteout lol

[sally]

this is why i don't play guess the movie much

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we need to have a snow movie poll. Maybe after the sci-fi one is done?

[Umbugbene]

Here are some nice snowy movies :

L'assassinat du Père Noël
Winter Light
The Structure of Crystal
Symphonie pastorale
Kwaidan
Spellbound
Andrei Rublev
Nostalghia
Holiday Inn
The Shining
The Day He Arrives
The Lady Vanishes
Conquest of the North Pole
The Forbidden Quest
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
Careful
White Nights
Snowpiercer

[rischka]

tourneur nightfall

[liquidnature]

marketa lazarová, of course, the greatest snow movie ever made

[rischka]

on dangerous ground

[Silga]

i still every so often fondly recall bronson's white buffalo from the 77 poll as a great snow movie.

I need to finally watch White Buffalo. It's been on my radar for too long. It also fits with my goal to watch more J. Lee Thompson's films and maybe nominate him for our director's poll one day.

I also remembered another of Bronson's snow movies - Death Hunt (Peter R. Hunt, 1981). Appropriate name for the director by the way.
I'm not a big fan of the film, but I quite enjoyed the dynamics between Bronson and Lee Marvin.

[rischka]

sad to say our 1971 poll brought to mind an old favorite that didn't even make my list: mccabe and mrs miller



very snowy!!

[Zulawski]

Melody for a Street Organ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[liquidnature]

In the middle of watching Klaus (2019) and it is surprisingly good. Refreshing to actually have some originality present in its genres; both in the Saint Nicholas origin story and in its animation. Plenty of snow as well. Would recommend to anyone looking for new Christmas/winter watches.

[thoxans]

Klaus (2019)

agreed! originally put it on as background noise, but ended up pausing it every time i left the room, so that i wouldn't miss anything. such beautiful visuals. rec'd for my boy kanafani and his lil boy

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watched some snow movies. wah chang's "frosty the snowman" (so i've seen all 3 of his animated xmas shorts now)... and my annual watch of dianne jackson's "the snowman" (the best!)

"the snowman" is a bit weird b/c it seems v old... but it's from 1982. when i first saw it at school, must've been '92 or '93 max... so the movie was 11, and i was 6. now the movie is 37 and i'm 32. i probably didn't watch it between 94 and 2010, but i've seen it every yr for the past 10 yrs now. anyway

hopefully get to some features soon

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

This evening I rewatched Hawks's The Thing from Another World. One of the great fifties sci-fi/horror movies, and one of the great winter movies.