It's a Wonderful Blog-A-Thon.

"Welcome, folks, to the It's a Wonderful Blog-A-Thon," announces Dan Eisenberg. "There will be posts throughout the day on my various takes on the cinematic 'classic' It's a Wonderful Life. I happen to think it's overrated, and I will spend my posts attempting do deconstruct various aspects that annoy me about the film, including a more feminist perspective on the world without George Bailey and a look at various inconsistencies which tug at the string that hold It's a Wonderful Life together."

Updated through 12/20.

And the first of the contributions are beginning to appear as well.

Updates, 12/20: "Voted 'the greatest Christmas film of all time' in a recent poll for the HMV, It's a Wonderful Life keeps getting drooling admiration from critics and public alike," blogs Ronald Bergan for the Guardian. "But although it is a fine example of a well-crafted, well-acted classic Hollywood movie, it is also a deeply reactionary one. By the time Capra made It's A Wonderful Life, his best work was behind him."

"Is there a keen cross-demographic strategy behind the IFC Center programming a one-week double bill featuring It's a Wonderful Life and Bad Santa?" asks Eric Kohn in the New York Press. "Regardless of any commercial strategies, a closer look at the juxtaposition of these seemingly disparate works suggests more in common than three letters and a holiday milieu."

Posted by dwhudson at December 16, 2007 7:28 AM