In a year when issues pertaining to race and racism have dominated news headlines, the Sundance Film Festival focused on bringing diversity to the big screen.
Charles Dickens wrote his novella A Christmas Carol during the early part of the Victorian era in Britain, helping to rejuvenate interest in older Christmas traditions in the England of the time and remaining a cornerstone of Christmas tradition in both Britain and America to this day. There have been many adaptations of this story on stage and in film over the year, with the following films representing some of the best of those adaptations on this Christmas classic.
Mel Brooks was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1926, and was already working as a comedian in his neighborhood by the time he was a teenager. After serving in World War II, Brooks returned home and worked as an entertainer in various resorts in New York’s Catskills region, performing standup comedy and even working as a drummer at times.
