Have Yourself an Alternative Christmas
Tired of Capra? Try our of alternative Yuletide offerings.

Experimental Christmas Shorts 107min
Mon, Dec 22 at 7pm only!
Culled in large part from the Filmmakers’ Co-Op archive, plus RFK and Sammy Davis Jr. in a short by Pennebaker.
Holidaze, George Kuchar
X-Mas Tree, Ursula Hodel
Christ Mass Sex Dance, Stan Brackhage
Christmas 1972, Ernie Steck
Christmas is Naked Turkey, Ben Hayeem
Holiday Spirit, James Livingston
Merry Christmas, Jerome Hill
Ye Faithful, Brian Kellman/Charles W. Tamulonis
9/64: O Tannenbaum, Kurt Kren
Blue Christmas, David White
Happy End, Peter Tscherkassky
Jingle Bells, DA Pennebaker

Christmas In July (2003) 67min
and Jackie Cooper’s Christmas (1931) 9min
Tue, Dec 23 at 4:30, 6:50, 9:10pm
Directed by Preston Sturges
With Dick Powell, Ellen Drew
Sick of the same holiday films? Check out Christmas in July, where a clerk thinks he’s won $25,000, and spends it all, only to find out he didn’t win after all. Sturges’ second feature mixes uproarious comedy with heart-warming sentiment. With Jackie Cooper’s Christmas. An MGM rarity, with Louis B. Mayer, Norma Shearer, Jimmy Durante, and dozens more pitching in to help Cooper celebrate Christmas, Hollywood-style.