It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Christmas Carol roulette - I'm thinking of beginning things

Dan and Brian discuss four adaptations of Charles Dickens' famed holiday novella for a sixth consecutive holiday season. This year, they each share their feedback on two different entries randomly selected from a giant list. Join as they consider the perils of low-budget cinema tackling high-budget material, British humor, and the compatibility of western tropes with Scrooge.

Then, they look inward and combat some holiday malaise by discussing a film in a similar spirit to Dickens but from an entirely different angle, the Frank Capra classic It's a Wonderful Life. They discuss the film's deliberate pacing, its complicated politics, the soapy fake snow, and what it all means, both in and out of cinema.

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