AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center

HOLIDAY CLASSICS
December 15 - 25, 2006

AFI celebrates the holiday season with films for all audiences, including the classic MGM musicals THE WIZARD OF OZ, THE PIRATE and MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, and some of the best-loved Christmas classics. Bring the family to see them on the big screen at AFI Silver!

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

#1 on AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Cheers, #11 on AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies

After a lifetime of good deeds with little or no remuneration, Bedford Falls resident George Bailey (James Stewart) attempts a Christmas Eve suicide but is saved by guardian angel Clarence Goodbody (Henry Travers), who shows George how dismal life would have been for his family and friends had he never been born. Perhaps Frank Capra's finest work, and certainly the all-time American Christmas classic.

DIR/SCR/PROD Frank Capra; SCR Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett and Jo Swerling. US, 1946, b&w, 129 min. NOT RATED

THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL

In the Muppets' incarnation of the Dickens classic, Michael Caine is Scrooge, the unyielding employer of Kermit the Frog's Bob Cratchit. Everybody's favorite frog is joined by Miss Piggy as Mrs. Cratchit and Robin the Frog as Tiny Tim. A Christmas Carol and the Muppets: we've grown up with both of them.

DIR/PROD Brian Henson; SCR Jerry Juhl, after the novel by Charles Dickens; PROD Martin G. Baker. US, 1992, color, 85 min. RATED G