White Christmas may not be (as any film bore/geek like OG will tell you) the film in which the title song makes its first appearance (that would be Holiday Inn) but it has undoubtedly become part of the Christmas furniture. Danny Kaye may only have been third choice to star alongside Bing Crosby but the producers got lucky - his sort of clowning is a nice counterpoint to Crosby's elegant langour.
And of course any film is best when seen in a packed cinema. So to the Electric Cinema for a screening of the movie, but not your usual two hours of pleasurable detachment. No, this was a screening paired with wine tasting, in the hands of the estimable Wine Events Company. The film was cheerfully paused to take in an Alsace cremant, an Austrian Riesling, two reds , and a port, plus, naturally, a couple of mince pies. Brilliant. As for the film, difficult to be objective but 70/100.
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