Of course there will be movies related to Christmas; my favorite of these are only partly about the holiday, which still has a significant role: Vincente Minnelli's lovely period piece Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, showing on Dec. 11), John Ford's variation on the three wise men, as a Western, Three Godfathers (1949, also on the 11th), Lubitsch's touching and funny The Shop Around the Corner (1940, on the 15th), Leo McCarey's Going My Way (1944, on the 17th) and his Love Affair (1939, on the 20th), Preston Sturges's and Mitch Leisen's Remember the Night (1940, on the 22nd).
On Dec. 3 is Robert Siodmak's excellent film noir, Phantom Lady (1944, from a Cornell Woolrich novel), Budd Boetticher's austere Western Ride Lonesome (1959), and John Ford's She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949).
On Dec. 3 is German émigré Douglas Sirk's intense Hitler's Madman (1943), about the assassination of Nazi SS leader Reinhard Heydrich, and on the 4th is Billy Wilder's Lost Week-End (1945) and King Vidor's last film, Solomon and Sheba (1959).
On Dec. 6 are two of the best movies ever made about families: Yasijuro Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953) and Leo MCarey's Make Way for Tomorrow (1939), about growing old in America before Social Security started.
On Dec. 7 are three movies related to Pearl Harbor: John Ford's They Were Expendable (1943), Howard Hawks's Air Force(1943) and Raoul Walsh's The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956).
On Dec. 8 is Chaplin's exquisite Limelight (1952) and on the 11th is Kenji Mizoguchi's beautiful and moving Ugetsu (1953)
On the 13th is Delmer Daves's Western 3:10 to Yuma and Joseph Losey's caustic view of America in 1951, The Prowler.
On the 17th is Howard Hawks's comedy Monkey Business (1952) and on the 19th is Preminger's film noir Angel Face (1939).
On the 22nd is Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951), from a Patricia Highsmith novel, and two elegant pre-code comedies from Lubitsch, Design for Living (1933) and The Love Parade (1929).
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