Movie Advent Calendar 2011

Christmas time is here again!

And like every year I am in full Christmas mood despite my lack of religious allegiance.

What I love about the Christmas season is the way it reminds me of our humanity. In a time where it gets dark around 4 o’clock, where everything is cold and logically we shouldn’t have a reason to be joyous… we have managed to motivate ourselves.

Snow is no longer just associated with wetness and cold feet – no now we look forward to some hot punch, some chestnuts and the lit up houses of crazy neighbours…

Christmas is a celebration during a a time where we shouldn’t be celebrating, we should stay at home and not go outside, but we can’t wait to celebrate with each other. It is a celebration of humanity like a light that says: the darker it gets the more we will find out why it is worth living.

So with this mindset I will again feature a Movie-Advent Calendar like last year, but this time it won’t be a list of movie-suggestions. It will be 24 moments from movies that either define a film that I associate with Christmas, maybe it is a Christmas special from a TV-series or it can be just one fantastic scene related to Christmas (watch out for a certain boat that rocked).

So with that being said I hope you enjoy the 2011 Movie-Advent Calendar:

December 1^st – Cease Fire
December 2^nd – Christmas at Hogwarts
December 3^rd – Bart Takes a New Photo
December 4^th – Season’s Warnings
December 5^th – Penguin’s Funeral
December 6^th – Scrooge’s Grave
December 7^th – Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker
December 8^th – Christmas will be ours
December 9^th – Scary Santa
December 10^th – The Boat that Rocked
December 11^th – Life Day
December 12^th – The Wrong Present
December 13^th – Mr. White Christmas
December 14^th – The Birth of Brian
December 15^th – Burnt Christmas Tree
December 16^th – And I’m his friend Jesus
December 17^th – Christmas with the Joker
December 18^th – Contagion
December 19^th – Rare Exports
December 20^th – Single Bells
December 21^st – The Boat that Rocked British Christmas
December 22^nd – Catch Me If You Can
December 23^rd – The Penguin
December 24^th  – Desmond calls Penny