It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the American Cinematheque's Egyptian and Aero theaters with the Movies With Holiday Spirit festival.
Dancing into the Egyptian tonight and Saturday at the Aero is the 1971 classic musical "Fiddler on the Roof." One of the best romantic comedies set during the holidays, 1940's "The Shop Around the Corner," directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan, visits the Egyptian on Friday. Saturday afternoon, the theater presents a free showing of the 1970 musical "Scrooge," based on Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" and starring Albert Finney. Later that evening, the theater will show the 1942 comedy "The Man Who Came to Dinner," with Monty Woolley and Bette Davis, and 1949's "Holiday Affair," with Janet Leigh and Robert Mitchum. On tap for Sunday is the 1954 Irving Berlin musical "White Christmas," which also screens tonight at the Aero.
