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SMC Pod #203: Classic Hollywood Christmas

12/12/2025 • 49 min

Christmas movies are a genre unto themselves. And Classic Hollywood Christmas movies are a special part of that genre. Holiday movies made in Hollywood's heyday of the 1930's-1940's. Secret Movie Club founder.programmer Craig Hammill takes a look at five favorites-Frank Capra's 1946 It's A Wonderful Life, Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 The Shop Around the Corner, Preston… Play episode

SMC Pod #202: The Italian Stylists
SMC Pod #201: Blade Runner & dystopian sci-fi movies
SMC Podcast #200: Lightning Bottle Movie Masterpieces
SMC Pod #199: The Toronto Film Festival 2025 1st Person POV-Blake Winston …
SMC Pod #198: 10 horror movie discoveries
SMC Pod #197: Is this Cinema Part Three: A Serbian Film
SMC Pod #196: The Godfather trilogy & why it's a true trilogy
SMC Pod #195: Paul Thomas Anderson's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER & the 2025 t…
SMC Pod #194: Pixote, Come and See, and the real horror movies
SMC Pod #193: Star Persona vs. Great Actors and everything in between
SMC Pod #192: Sunset Boulevard, Chinatown, & movies that capture the real …
SMC Pod #191: Lorne Michaels & The Movie Impressario
SMC Pod #190: The Children of Caligari-Persona, 3 Women, Mulholland Drive
SMC Pod #189: The Val Lewton RKO horror unit of the 1940's & Jacques Tourn…
SMC Pod #188: Marlon Brando's ONE EYED JACKS (1961) & the eccentric Western
SMC Pod #187: The complex American character through 100 years of American…
SMC Pod #186: Rossellini's 1940's War trilogy: Rome Open City, Paisan, Ger…
SMC Pod#185: Steven Spielberg's JAWS & Why it's the exception to the rule
SMC Pod #184: The Fantasy, Sci-Fi, & Horror genres (and how they are refle…
SMC Pod #183: Francesco Rosi's SALVATORE GIULIANO (1962, Italy)
SMC Pod #182: The Cannes Film Festival with someone who's been there!
SMC Pod #181: Recent movies that give me hope
SMC Pod #180: Is This Cinema Part 2 Part 2! Conversation on what is cinema
SMC Pod #179: Is this Cinema Pt II: The Human Centipede
SMC Pod #178: Gene Hackman - A helluva actor
SMC Pod #177: Roger Corman's Rules 2: The Spawning!
SMC Pod #176: Adaptation Pt 2-The Haunted House movie
SMC Pod #175: Adaptation Part 1: Frankenstein (novel) to movie (1931, Jame…
SMC Pod #174: Dialogue-less Movies (Pure Cinema)
SMC Pod #173: The state of cinema, 2025 (it's rough)
SMC Pod #172: Is this Cinema? I: Pasolini's Salo or 120 Days of Sodom
SMC Pod #171: Watershed movies
SMC Pod #170: Bill Murray, the Agony & The Ecstasy
SMC Pod #169: David Lynch, an appreciation
SMC Pod #168: The Lubitsch Touch, a prologue
SMC Pod #167: Akira Kurosawa, Master Filmmaker, 2025 Edition
SMC Pod #166: 2024, the year in movies
SMC Pod #165: Stanley Kubrick, Director of 2020
SMC Pod #164: Alfred Hitchcock, Director of 2023
SMC Pod #163: Roger Corman's Rules
SMC Pod #162: Thanksgiving special-Giving thanks for the Bravo Channel (ea…
SMC Pod #161: What is a masterpiece & masterpiece inflation
SMC Pod #160: CRUMB & The dark documentary (A deeper doc dive Part II)
SMC Pod #159: Communicating cinematically or ”An idea in every shot”
SMC Pod #158: Why PSYCHO is the 2001 of Horror movies
SMC Pod #157: Filmmaker Sensibilities: Blockbuster vs Art House
SMC Pod #156: Sex in American Cinema and the X & NC-17 Rating
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SMC Summer Pod #9: When Hitchcock experiments & SMC Pod #108 Repost The Hi…

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