December 31st-Janraury 1st 2011
New Year’s celebrations are always more fun in movies than real life. So I made a little list of good old films with New Year’s scenes. Some of them are cynical and others sentimental, but they all make me wish I could go back in time!
New Year’s celebrations are always more fun in movies than real life. So I made a little list of good old films with New Year’s scenes. Some of them are cynical and others sentimental, but they all make me wish I could go back in time!
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1. Sunset Boulevard. Here’s the cynical one. If you haven’t seen it you should watch it. It’s a black comedy about Hollywood in the ’50s and an old fading silent film star who’s good at throwing creepy parties, including an extra good one on New Year’s Eve. |

2. I’ll Be Seeing You. It’s funny that two of my top four New Year’s movies have law-breaking heroines and 1940s wholesomeness. This one stars Ginger Rogers and Joseph Cotten, and it’s not an especially lively or festive movie, but it’s good and quiet and poignant. Especially during the New Year’s Eve dance at the YMCA. Everything is low-key but somehow Ginger manages to pull out this gorgeous dress that you could really only see in a Hollywood movie.

3. The Apartment. It’s also a lot of fun–like Sunset Boulevard it’s a Billy Wilder black comedy, only instead of silent film style tangos it has Christmas office parties gone wrong and confetti-filled New Year’s get-togethers in Chinese restaurants. And its New Year’s Eve ending is maybe my favorite ending in any Billy Wilder movie. Some Like it Hot included!

4. Remember the Night. This one is more of a holiday movie than anything, but I love it so much that it has to go on this list. For one thing it stars Barbara Stanwyck as a wise-cracking thief and Fred MacMurray as the district attorney trying to send her off to jail. The movie completely changes pace when they both go off to Indiana to spend the holidays with his family, only it’s so good and wholesome that you don’t really mind that Barbara loses a little bit of her toughness. My favorite part is when she dresses up in Fred’s aunt’s ancient corset and ball gown for a country New Year’s Eve dance, the whole scene is so touching.
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