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Comfort Films for the Holidays
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Marlon Brando in 'The Godfather', one of Rabin's comfort film picks. |
We ask head writer Nathan Rabin from The Onion AV Club to tell us which films he’d cozy up to with some holiday cookies and cocoa. But we don’t want the tried and true classics like It’s a Wonderful Life. Alison Cuddy talked with Rabin who defines a “comfort film.”
Rabin's is author of The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture.
List of Films Mentioned:
Trading Places (1983) Directed by John Landis. With Denholm Elliott, Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Maurice Woods
Coming to America (1988) Directed by John Landis. With Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones
48 Hrs. (1982) Directed by Walter Hill. With Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole
Beverly Hills Cop (1984) Directed by Martin Brest. With Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton
The Last Days of Disco (1998) Directed by Whit Stillman. With Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale
Remember the Night (1940) Directed by Mitchell Leisen. With Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947) Directed by Preston Sturges. With Harold Lloyd, Jimmy Conlin, Raymond Walburn
The Freshman (1925) Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor. With Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Brooks Benedict
Mean Streets (1973) Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval
Alien (1979) Directed by Ridley Scott. With Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright
The Godfather (1972) Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Directed by Frank Capra. With James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Directed by Frank Capra. With Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains
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Joe A Abernathy, Chicago/South Loop // Monday, December 21, 2009 @ 3:45 PM
Ahhh, yes...nothing like cuddling beside the fire to gunshots, beheaded horses, topless Jamie Lee Curtis, or aliens ripping through someone's torso....
Really, Nathan?
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