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I had a wonderful Christmas, and my wife and family gave me a lot of classic film goodies.

Books:
In Search of Charlie Chaplin by Kevin Brownlow
Fort Lee, New Jersey by the Fort Lee Film Commission

BluRay discs:
Stagecoach (1939) Criteron disc
Casablanca (1942)
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Caddyshack (1980)

I also got a Kindle. I have not had a chance to really scan the books available, but I downloaded William K. Everson's American Silent Film since it is a sentimental favorite.

THE JOAN CRAWFORD COLLECTION
FILM NOIR COLLECTION - unfortunately containing a colourised BIG
STEAL, which I shall NOT be viewing.
BORZAGE - 7TH HEAVEN/STREET ANGEL
THE RAVEN - KARLOFF AND LUGOSI
DR MABUSE SET - MoC VERSION
TALES OF TERROR - PRICE/CORMAN

I pretty much got my Amazon wish list, and despite my family's tendency to NOT check things off it when they order them, I got only one duplicate (two copies of a cookbook called Pork and Sons) so soon, I'll send that back and get one more thing off it!

It was pretty much a Blu, Blu, Blu Christmas, with:

The Black Pirate (blu-ray)
Black Narcissus (blu-ray)
Fantasia (blu-ray)

plus in non-Blu, Chaplin at Keystone, Make Way For Tomorrow, and Travels With Hiroshi Shimizu (one of which is silent).

For my mid-December birthday, I also got Scott Eyman's DeMille bio (and one copy of Pork and Sons).

And a santoku knife, which went straight to work making Christmas dinner. Chop chop!

No blu-ray discs yet, it may help if I get a blu-ray player. In the meantime:

Eyeman's DeMille book

The BFI CHAPLIN AT KEYSTONE set

LUCREZIA BORGIA

Vintage Sheet Music re Theme Songs from 20s Films, i.e., THE COVERED WAGON, WINGS, THE ETERNAL FLAME, GIRL SHY, THE HOODLUM, JEANINE I DREAM OF LILAC TIME, RAMONA, FAZIL, NOAH'S ARK, JOSEPHITA, others.

The last will get me through the winter months.

I just bought myself Universal's Bing Crosby Collection for Xmas, and plan to watch MISSISSIPPI and SING YOU SINNERS tonight.

And I'll only have to walk five blocks with a canoe under one arm and a mountain goat under the other to do it.

dr.giraud wrote:I just bought myself Universal's Bing Crosby Collection for Xmas, and plan to watch MISSISSIPPI and SING YOU SINNERS tonight.

And I'll only have to walk five blocks with a canoe under one arm and a mountain goat under the other to do it.

I'll bet the goat was very good with mustard.

Even though I probably could have been better this year, I got some wonderful things and no lumps of coal, either:

Fantasia in Blu-ray
Metropolis in Blu-ray
the Demille bio by Scott Eyman
the L.B. Mayer bio by Scott Eyman
the Frank Sinatra bio by James Kaplan &
a fifth of John Jameson Irish whiskey

An interesting, useful and practical mix, no? SETH

bobfells wrote:
I'll bet the goat was very good with mustard.

Judging from the forecast (and weather reports from points yonder south of here), it ain't gonna be a fit night out for man nor beast.

Gotta go milk the elk.

Well, nothing for Christmas, but for Hannukah and my birthday

All bluray:
BLACK NARCISSUS
METROPOLIS
THE RED SHOES
THE LEOPARD
THE THIN RED LINE

and the new book on THE AVENGERS.

and if you count work, HD files of the Sparrows trailer and outtakes.

Some of my items haven't, uh, arrived yet because I waited to order them (I do a lot of my Christmas shopping for myself; my family knows better than to guess which DVDs and books I want vs. those I already have). But anyway:

-a couple of Kino Griffith discs
-Chicago (Phyllis, of course)
-Forbidden Hollywood vol. 3
-Come and Get It
-Dangerous Curves Atop Hollywood Heels by Michael Ankerich
-The Collector's Guide to Victor Records by Michael Sherman, 2nd ed. (can't wait for this one to arrive--early reviews have been just effusive with praise)
-popover pans
-B&N gift cards

Phyllis Haver, popovers and Nipper. Not too bad of a Christmas!

-Harold

Chaplin at Keystone, Brent Walker's Sennett book, the Harry Langdon Lost and Found set (which I've already seen via Netflix, but wanted to own), and a replacement copy of Leslie Cabarga's book on the Fleischer Studio. My copy of the latter, which I'd had since the '70s, was destroyed by a pet rabbit who nibbled the spine off it. Honest to God.

Actually, I won't receive the first two items until my birthday, which is December 28th, but my spies tell me that's what I'll be getting. When I was a kid I thought December 28th was an awful birthday. I complained about it once to a friend, saying that by the time my birthday rolled around everybody was broke. Turns out his birthday is January 1st, and he wasn't sympathetic at all. He said: "On my birthday, everybody was broke and hung over!"

silentfilm wrote:I had a wonderful Christmas, and my wife and family gave me a lot of classic film goodies.

Books:
In Search of Charlie Chaplin by Kevin Brownlow
Fort Lee, New Jersey by the Fort Lee Film Commission

BluRay discs:
Stagecoach (1939) Criteron disc
Casablanca (1942)
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Caddyshack (1980)

I also got a Kindle. I have not had a chance to really scan the books available, but I downloaded William K. Everson's American Silent Film since it is a sentimental favorite.

Books:
Hollywood on the Hudson (Richard Koszarski)
The Keystone Kid (Coy Watson Jr)
Film Flashes: The Wit and Humor of a Nation in Pictures (from 1916)

DVDs:
Chaplin at Keystone (very impressed with this!)
Melies Encore disc

Mike,

'Black Narcissus' is INCREDIBLE in Blu-ray.

What's funny is, when I first got a laserdisc player c. 1991, the two laserdiscs I thought right at the start would be the best test of how well laser and my TV could represent film were Black Narcissus and Fantasia-- both 40s Technicolor which I had seen on the big screen (the former recently then, the latter frequently throughout the 70s and 80s).

And, well, here I am getting them again for the same reason. Plus ça change...

My big present was finally getting the British Transport Films collection. Which I am very happy about.

And Chaplin at Keystone, which was a must-buy and a heavy hint for Christmas!

No Blu-rays or DVD's for Christmas as I tend to purchase too much stuff all year round but aside from a beautiful watch that the wife did buy for me, I will say that there were a good number of classic DVD's and box sets on sale in December and quite content what I got.