The Christmas Carol Advent Calendar™️: An American Christmas Carol (1979)

24 days. 24 adaptations of A Christmas Carol. One hundred points to be scored. Which adaptations are blessed, and which ones get a “Bah, humbug?”

In which Ethan makes the admittedly perverse argument that one of the loosest adaptations of A Christmas Carol is one of the best.

Ethan Warren

A former editor for the online film journal Bright Wall/Dark Room since 2018. As of 2020, I’m working on my first book, The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, under contract with Wallflower books. Ethan is a Boston Society of Film Critics member and a graduate of the master’s program in creative writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Ethan lives on Boston's south shore with his wife, Caitlin, and their children.

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The Christmas Carol Advent Calendar™️: Rich Little’s Christmas Carol (1978)