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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.