This Christmas brings glad tidings of two beloved seasonal classics both newly restored in 4K and available to book as part of your 2017 festive programme.
Released within a year of each other in 1946 and 1947 respectively, It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street have been freshly boxed and wrapped in digital cinema's fanciest packaging, adding an extra sparkle to their enduring magic.
It's a Wonderful Life
Frank Capra's gift that keeps on giving was initially met with a fairly cool response upon its first release - but has, since then, grown in stature, warming its way into the hearts of countless cinemagoers as a now treasured Christmas tradition. Its story of a troubled small-town banker contemplating his life - and possible death - on Christmas Eve follows the redemptive arc laid out in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, but charms and transforms this familiar festive narrative into something all of its own.
Miracle on 34th Street
Celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2017, this much-referenced and often-remade classic delves into the perennially sticky debate of whether or not Father Christmas truly exists. Kindly old Kris Kringle lands a job at Macy's department store as their Santa Claus, but causes consternation among his cynical employers when he insists that he's the real deal. When Kris is sent to a psychiatric institution and finally ends up in the dock at the courthouse, he drags New York's great and good into an argument that only a miracle can settle.
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