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THE NEW YEAR'S DAY VIDEOFEST*

2010: Flying Victory through AirPower The Aviator Only Angels Have Wings Airplane! The Big Lift Up	2009: Animal Attack movies Jaws Kingdom of the Spiders Beginning of the End Night of the Lepus Jurassic Park Tremors Them	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.