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THE NEW YEAR'S DAY VIDEOFEST*

2008: Pirates
♦ The Black Swan
♦ Treasure Planet
♦ Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
♦ Captain Kidd
♦ The Crimson Pirate
♦ The Sea Hawk (1924)
2007: Underground
♦ The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
♦ Journey to the Center of the Earth
♦ Volcano
♦ The Mole People
♦ Treasure Island
♦ The Descent
2006: Humphrey Bogart
♦ Treasure of the Sierra Madre
♦ The Barefoot Contessa
♦ In a Lonely Place
♦ The Petrified Forest
♦ Sabrina
♦ High Sierra
2005: Deserts
♦ Santa Fe Trail
♦ Forbidden Planet
♦ Kismet
♦ Outpost in Morocco
♦ Sahara
♦ The Mummy
2004: Films that take place in a city whose name is in the title
♦ San Francisco
♦ Meet Me In St. Louis
♦ Khartoum
♦ Gangs of New York
♦ Fargo
2003: Films from 1939
♦ The Real Glory
♦ Paradise in Harlem
♦ The Hunchback of Notre Dame
♦ Only Angels Have Wings
♦ Juarez
♦ Gone With the Wind
   

 

Mr. Otter and I have a long-standing (about 20 years now) tradition of spending New Year's Day watching either a long miniseries, (like The Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, I Claudius, or Poldark) or movies based on a theme. If it's a theme, we pick it early, usually by the beginning of November. We usually pick eight movies or so, and plan to start watching at 10 am and go til 9 at night, which means we generally watch 6 of the 8, picked randomly. Although the year our theme was 1939 we had so much fun that after everyone had gone home, at 9 pm...we watched Gone with the Wind til 1 am! People drop in and out, we have lots to eat and drink, and msting is often encouraged, depending on the movie. It's a lot of fun.