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See It Big: Let It Snow

Dec 6, 2024 — Jan 24, 2025

There’s nothing like a vast cinematic outdoor canvas of blinding white. Or an interior scene surrounded by delicate falling snow. For this year’s holiday season, we offer a screening series that blankets the viewer in frost and ice, presenting some of the most memorable movie moments, from the cozy to the forbidding. For many of these films, intrepid filmmakers forged ahead against real snowy landscapes, while others recreated winter on sound stages. Whether it’s the Torrance family barely surviving the snowbound Overlook Hotel or Charlie Chaplin battling the elements in the Klondike, Judy Garland trying to have a merry little Christmas or a group of scientists in the Antarctic desperate not to become a shape-shifting alien’s lunch, there’s something to freeze (or melt) the heart of any movie-lover. Bundle up!

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A small green creature named Yoda leans on a cane as he looks at a man in a tank top in a wooded area

The Empire Strikes Back
Two men smile against a snowy landscape and a bright blue sky.

Dersu Uzala
Four young women sing merrily in the snow and carry plates covered with napkins, a pot of coffee, and piles of wood.

Little Women
A bearded man in a bowler hat and enormous fur coat stands outside in a snowy old western town talking to a man and woman.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Four young women sing merrily in the snow and carry plates covered with napkins, a pot of coffee, and piles of wood.

Little Women
A bearded man in a bowler hat and enormous fur coat stands outside in a snowy old western town talking to a man and woman.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Two men smile against a snowy landscape and a bright blue sky.

Dersu Uzala
Near an open door with light snowflakes blowing, a man in red and green flannel crouches in front of a woman in a fur coat sitting on stairs. Both have serious, sad expressions.

All That Heaven Allows
A mustachioed man embraces a woman, both are wearing thick winter clothes, and a white-haired man with a white mustache watches them.

Doctor Zhivago
Near an open door with light snowflakes blowing, a man in red and green flannel crouches in front of a woman in a fur coat sitting on stairs. Both have serious, sad expressions.

All That Heaven Allows
A young man and woman wearing turn of the century American upper-class outfits gaze longingly.

Meet Me in St. Louis
A young man and woman wearing turn of the century American upper-class outfits gaze longingly.

Meet Me in St. Louis
A mustachioed man embraces a woman, both are wearing thick winter clothes, and a white-haired man with a white mustache watches them.

Doctor Zhivago
An eskimo holds a harpoon and crouches on an ice floe near the water in a partly frozen lake, a camera on a tripod next to him.

Nanook of the North
Superman, wearing a red cape and blue suit, kisses a dark-haired woman, Lois Lane, in a striped blazer.

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Superman, wearing a red cape and blue suit, kisses a dark-haired woman, Lois Lane, in a striped blazer.

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
In a snowy landscape, a man holds a lantern up against a frightening-looking upside-down creature with its fingers outstretched against a wall.

The Thing
A man in an orange shirt and beige vest desperately holds to the top of a train as it runs through a snowy landscape.

Runaway Train
In a snowy landscape, a man holds a lantern up against a frightening-looking upside-down creature with its fingers outstretched against a wall.

The Thing
A man dressed in a bowler hat and a little tramp outfit stands on a snowy mountainside his hand above his forehead as he looks at the landscape.

The Gold Rush
A man in an orange shirt and beige vest desperately holds to the top of a train as it runs through a snowy landscape.

Runaway Train
A man dressed in a bowler hat and a little tramp outfit stands on a snowy mountainside his hand above his forehead as he looks at the landscape.

The Gold Rush
A man with a maniacal smiling face sits at a bar with light emanating from below, with a bartender looking at him eerily.

The Shining
A man in a blue jumpsuit and white goggles crouches on a pair of skis on a snowy mountainside.

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
A man with a maniacal smiling face sits at a bar with light emanating from below, with a bartender looking at him eerily.

The Shining
A man in a blue jumpsuit and white goggles crouches on a pair of skis on a snowy mountainside.

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
A man with a frosty beard in a frozen landscape with his eyes closed, with ice-covered tree branches criss-crossing over his face in the foreground.

The Ascent
A man with a frosty beard in a frozen landscape with his eyes closed, with ice-covered tree branches criss-crossing over his face in the foreground.

The Ascent