Thursday, 13 December 2007
Christmas: a time for watching Zulu
posted @4:18 p.m. by Richard Kelly
Do you remember when the Christmas TV schedules meant something to you? A bill of fare that might actually persuade you to make a firm date with the sofa? Those of you looking forward this season to 'Richard Hammond Meets Evel Knievel' and Kylie Minogue in 'Doctor Who' will wonder why I'm grousing. But I speak of the days of 'the captive audience', the pre-VCR era, or even the time when a movie's Home Entertainment release window was still 2-3 years behind Theatrical, and so I used to REALLY PAY ATTENTION to what movies were lined up on telly over the Holidays, as laid out in the groaning Festive Fortnight edition of Radio Times. Nowadays, time-poor, with Tivo and On-Demand and the DVD and whatnot, we only watch things at the precise hour that we have to spare, don't we? Or am I just blindly believing lifestyle newspaper rubbish as usual? Anyhow the following list has me fantasising about spending a fortnight mostly in front of the telly with said Radio Times, a lot of slightly dry white-bread turkey sandwiches, and a fridge full of McEwans Export. Yes, it's the TEN MOVIES I'D MOST LIKE TO WATCH ON TELLY OVER CHRISTMAS...
