Pixilated: Frank Capra’s Columbia Years

By Zeth Lundy

Capra's films of the '30s are seminal works and cannot be underestimated; their influence on American film has been viral, forever infiltrating the structural and thematic templates of contemporary cinema. [23 January 2007]

White Christmas and It’s a Wonderful Life

By Bill Gibron

While they might be right out of the Saturday Evening Post with their Norman Rockwell-esque moralizing and message, one cannot deny how thoroughly entertaining and iconic they both are. [10 November 2009]

Its A Wonderful Life: Two-Disc Collectors Set

By Zeth Lundy

Contrary to its public image, Frank Capra's greatest film is a dark and turbulent tale of surrender and sacrifice, of human frailty and defeatism, of that proverbial ledge from which hopes and dreams are thrown to the raging waters. [3 December 2007]

You Can’t Take It With You (1938)

By Chris Robé

Reveals the liberation offered by non-alienating work and examines the matrices between class and gender, as few other films do. [25 March 2003]

Consuming Consumables: White Christmas and It’s a Wonderful Life

White Christmas: Anniversary Edition - Paramount [$24.99] / It's a Wonderful Life: 2 Disc Collector's Set - Paramount [$29.98] [20 November 2009]

Short Ends and Leader: Seasoned Greetings: White Christmas (1954) and It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)