The Cinematography Podcast Holiday Special 2018 with Alonso Duralde

Alonso Duralde, film critic and author of Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas, discusses great (and

not so great) Christmas movies to watch.

Hosts Illya Friedman and a reluctant Ben Rock sit down with film critic and Christmas movie expert

Alonso Duralde. Alonso shares his extensive knowledge of holiday films from his book, Have Yourself a

Movie Little Christmas. Ben insists his movie, Alien Raiders, falls into the Christmas movie category,

along with other movies with Christmas as a backdrop such as Die Hard and Gremlins. They discuss

favorites such as A Christmas Story, It's a Wonderful Life, and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

A few movies fall into the darker category such as Eyes Wide Shut, The Ice Harvest, and some

are absolute stinkers like Six Weeks featuring Dudley Moore and Mary Tyler Moore. Alonso also points

out a hard to find gem worth a look called I'll Be Seeing You.

With so many choices on the holiday movie spectrum, will Ben open his heart to the Christmas spirit or

will it stay two sizes too small?

Also mentioned in the interview:

Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas (On Amazon)

Alonso Duralde Official Site

Linoleum Knife Podcast

Alien Raiders (Amazon Streaming)

I'll Be Seeing You (Free Streaming on It's Old Movie Time)

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Editor in Chief:  Illya Friedman

Host: Ben Rock

Producer: Alana Kode

Composer: Handsome & Gretyl

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