Final wrap-up of A MOVIE GIFT TO YOU BLOGATHON

For this blogathon, at least, Santa’s work is done. So let’s be sure to give credit where credit is due as we present

We definitely finished our movie-gifting blogathon in style! If you happened to miss the entries, click on the individual blog names to link to them, and click on “Day 1” or “Day 2” to read entries from those days of the blogathon.

To his favorite Anglophile rock-music fan, A Shroud of Thoughts presents Yellow Submarine, the animated film with soundtrack by and “starring” The Beatles.

Moon in Gemini presents Ratatouille, a Pixar cartoon with themes of food and cooking, to her late father, a self-styled chef.

And Silent-ology decided that the best Christmas gift for a silent-film lover would be Three’s a Crowd, Harry Langdon’s directing debut, in which the legendary silent comic takes a deserted wife and baby into his humble home during the holiday season.

Day 1  *  Day 2

First, I want to thank my blog’s readers who have checked back over the weekend to enjoy the full fruits of this blogathon.

Most of all, I want to thank the bloggers who took the time and effort to provide such fascinating and often touching entries to this blogathon. You provided me and my readers with holiday gifts that, as the great Dr. Seuss put it, can’t be bought in a store. I’m so grateful for your heartfelt entries!

To everyone, happy holidays and best wishes for a prosperous new year!

Day 2 Recap – A MOVIE GIFT TO YOU BLOGATHON

On the second day of our blogathon, our true bloggers kept giving to us! See what we mean in our

Our blogathon entrants continue to amaze and delight as they share their accounts of their most special movies and the people to whom they would “gift” them. (If you’ve missed reading any of the entries, click on Day 2’s blog names to link to their entries, or click on “Day 1” to link to the entries for the first day of our blogathon.)

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Thoughts All Sorts shares the adventure of The Last of the Mohicans with his spirited daughter.

And Old Hollywood Films gives the world’s most passionate cinephiles the ultimate Christmas movie, It’s a Wonderful Life.

Day 1 Recap

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Keep checking back with us through the end of this weekend, as we still have one more day in our blogathon and plenty of entries to come. This is one holiday blogathon that truly has legs!

 

 

 

 

Day 1 Recap – A MOVIE GIFT TO YOU BLOGATHON

The cinematic presents are already piling up under the tree! Join us as we rattle the boxes and examine bloggers’ film choices in the

The theme of this blogathon is special movies being gifted to special people, and our bloggers would do Santa proud! (If you have missed reading any of the blogathon entries, click on the individual blog names below to link to their entries.)

B Noir Detour wishes the modern-day film noir Bound upon the late, great noir actress Barbara Stanwyck.

Serendipitous Anachronisms thanks her blog’s readers by gifting them with the French romantic comedy Amélie – The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain.

Spontaneous Whimsy shares An Affair to Remember with her husband in memory of her grandmother, recounting the surprising parallels between her own life and those of the movie’s characters.

And lastly, yours truly shares with that lucky soul, the first-time moviegoer, the valentine to movies known as Cinema Paradiso.

Our nifty gifting blogathon still has two days to go, so keep checking back for more entries. You never know what surprises are in store!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The A MOVIE GIFT TO YOU BLOGATHON is here!

Getting you in the mood (we hope) for Christmas a week from now, we proudly present the A Movie Gift to You Blogathon. For the next three days, bloggers take careful consideration of movies they would bestow upon worthy people as though they were cinematic gold, frankincense, and/or myrrh. Join us as we give special flicks in spirit to our fellow movie buffs!

If you are one of the blogathon entrants, please list your blog name and the URL of your blog entry in the “Comments” below, and we will link to your blog as soon as possible. Everyone else, keep watching this space through the end of Sun., Dec. 20, as the entries keep coming in. We will also provide round-ups of the day’s entries at the end of each day of the blogathon!

Here are the blogs and the movies they have chosen to “gift”:

Movie Movie Blog Blog – Cinema Paradiso (1988)

Thoughts All Sorts – The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

B Noir Detour – Bound (1996)

A Shroud of Thoughts – Yellow Submarine (1968)

Serendipitous Anachronisms – Amelie (2001)

Moon in Gemini – Ratatouille (2007)

Old Hollywood Films – It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

Spontaneous Whimsy – An Affair to Remember (1957)

Silent-ology – Harry Langdon’s Three’s a Crowd (1927)

Enjoy the blogathon!