I should also add that for the last few years, high school graduation has made me yearn to watch American Pie but I never get around to doing it. But, it would seem to me that there are many movies that would be appropriate to this special occasion as well...

Sometime around ____ I usually watch _____

- 2 Feb / Groundhog Day
- Easter / King of King, Jesus Christ Superstar, Passion of the Christ, etc...
- 4th July / 1776
- D-Day / Longest Day, Band of Bothers, Saving Private Ryan, something along those lines
- 31 Oct / something related to Martin Luther, some random ghost story/horror flix
- 7 Dec / Tora, Tora, Tora or something related


At one point I was trying to come up w/ a "Movie a Day" calendar but I never got too far w/ it.

Holidays...not really. Maybe Charlie Brown stuff.

What I do do is this. I like watching films on the dates that some actors have birthdays and especially on death dates....just out of respect.

Not really, though I do tend to watch movies like Nightmare Before X-mas, Sleepy Hollow, etc. around Halloween. But not necessarily on Halloween.

Halloween - Universal Monsters Marathon; although this year to accomodate my wife we're doing a "classic modern horror" marathon, starting with PSYCHO, and hitting all the touchstones (Night of the Living Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Jason, Freddy, Etc.).
Christmas - A Christmas Carol (1951 - Sim, natch)
New Years Eve - I have a massive 3 Stooges, Marx Brothers, WC Fields Festival - this year promises to be very special with the new box sets. I've lost no small number of friends , and the eternal hatred of my wife because I refuse to do anything else that night. In the neighborhood I grew up in, you stayed indoors on New Year's Eve and hit the deck at Midnight, and the habit's kind of stuck.
Easter - Ben-Hur, King of Kings, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Greatest Story Ever Told
Memorial Day - The Good,the Bad,and the Ugly for one line: "I've never seen so many men wasted so badly" About as fitting a comment on the pointlessness of war that's ever been written.

I watch A Christmas Story and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (old and new) at Christmas. That's about the only regulars.

-AC

St Patrick's Day is the only holiday I watch specific films for, and I'm not even Irish.

The Quiet Man, Darby O'Gill, and sometimes Luck of the Irish with Tyrone Power.

Between DirecTV and all our local stations, during all the other holidays, you can find nearly any holiday classic showing somewhere, sometime.

Christmas Eve - Gangs of New York.

I also have a friend who watches Rocky 1-4 every year on her birthday. Says she cannot leave the house until they are all finished.

Christmas: Die Hard (usually end up watching Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, and several others in the weeks before)...I also tend to watch The Royal Tenenbaums around this time, for reasons unknown.

Halloween: At least one horror film, but rarely the same one each year (last year was the original Dawn of the Dead, I believe)

New Year's: When Harry Met Sally (though usually a day or two before New Year's Eve, as I have a hard time getting my drunk-ass friends to watch it with me)

Groundhog Day: Groundhog Day (man, they really cornered the market with this one!)

That's about all the holidays that are actually centered around films for me.

December 7 I watch the pearl harbor movies Tora Tora Tora, Midway, Pearl harbor, and of course In Harms Way one of the best films ever made!