Happy Easter, everyone. As sort of promised, I came up with a list of Easter movies for you. Maybe it'll be especially handy for those of you who are still on Saturday.
There just aren't many Easter movies. When I google "Easter movies" I see things like Veggie Tales and The Last Temptation of Christ. The Last Temptation of Christ is a good movie but I feel like a good Christmas movie isn't necessarily a religious movie so there should be non-religious Easter movies, too. There just aren't any real ones. I mean, there are ultra-cheap cash grab movies about the Easter Bunny but there's no Miracle on 34th Street for Easter. So I started thinking just about tone and aesthetic. It should be a movie with lots of pastels and formal attire. One thing that came to mind was:
The Prince and the Showgirl
Shot by the great cinematographer Jack Cardiff, this movie has lots of soft colours, lots of lavender, and Sir Lawrence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe entering upon a very respectfully scandalous affair.
For something ever so slightly raunchier:
French Can Can
Jean Renoir's film about the Moulin Rouge is a light foray into sensational ribaldry. Springtime scenes feature lots of shiny pastels.
Easter Parade
The only bona fide Easter movie anyone can remember. It's not an exceptionally good Fred Astaire or Judy Garland movie but it does definitely contain scenes revolving around Easter, though a lot fewer than you'd think.
Twin Peaks
It's not about the bunny . . . Is it about the bunny? No. It's not about the bunny. Arguably, Laura's death is the Good Friday preceding an Easter that is teased for thirty years and always remains tantalisingly out of reach. As an Easter movie, or series, rather, this may be for those who have explored the furthest extremes of Easter pleasure and now require psychological restraints in order to push blood into their Easterogenous zones.
Alice in Wonderland
Almost any version is a good choice but for Easter I would most recommend the 1949 French and English co-production. Again, for the pastels.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
If you don't like pastels, here's a movie with a very warm palette with lots of fire engine red. If the movie evokes any season, I'd say it's late summer. But the title character is a rabbit and the film contains a lot of thematic rebirth.
So there you go, there's some ideas for you. I also like to watch Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock on Easter but it's kind of an ironic Easter movie. A lot of people would also recommend Harvey, the movie about James Stewart having an invisible rabbit for a best friend, but somehow that movie doesn't seem very Eastery to me, as much as I do like it.
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