感恩节周末理论上都是关于家庭的。然而，就娱乐选择而言——与它们一起消费或作为逃避它们的一种方式——流行的主题严重倾向于怀旧，其项目植根于
1960 年代、70 年代和 90 年代。
音乐在这一切中扮演着重要的角色，这并不奇怪，导演彼得·杰克逊的多部分纪录片“披头士乐队：回归”在迪斯尼+ 首次亮相，几天后，一部专门讲述 60 年代另一场表演的电影，海滩男孩，凭借感人的“布赖恩威尔逊：漫长的承诺之路”在影院上映并按需点播。
电影“甘草比萨”也有强烈的音乐潜流，这是导演保罗·托马斯·安德森对 1970 年代南加州圣费尔南多谷的非正统看法；和“古驰之家”，这是一个关于时尚帝国争夺战的色情真实犯罪故事，时间跨度从 70 年代末（迪斯科主导了配乐）到 90 年代中期。
最后，周末有一对为电视制作的电影重新启动和复兴，CW 的“沃尔顿家族的归来”——基于 1930 年代的 1970 年代电视节目——和美国的“纳什桥”，重聚唐在警察节目破解 CBS 的最后一个案件二十年后，约翰逊和奇奇·马林 (Johnson and Cheech Marin)。
这显然是假日观影盛宴中相对较小的一部分，其中包括圣诞节主题电影的泛滥（似乎每年早些时候开始）和其他怀旧物品，如迪士尼+的“甜蜜的家独自一人”，这让另一个倒霉的孩子更受阻在最初的不良教养方式之后的 30 多年。
以下是对其中一些标题的一些更深入的想法。无论您选择在感恩节之前、期间或之后观看什么，Bon Appetit。
“甘草比萨”（剧院，11 月 26 日）
从某种意义上说，“甘草披萨”是无情怀旧的体现，捕捉了1970年代尼克松在电视上的时间和地点，Vin Scully在广播中称道奇游戏，因短缺而形成的煤气管道，老板可以肆无忌惮毫不畏惧地拍打他女员工的背后。
这部电影的核心是一个奇特的爱情故事，其中涉及即将年满 16 岁的加里（库珀·霍夫曼，已故菲利普·西摩·霍夫曼的儿子）和年长的阿拉娜（摇滚乐队的阿拉娜·海姆）多亏了加里的快速致富计划，包括兜售水床，他才能在原本没有重点的生活中找到方向。
一些真正的 70 年代角色进入了这对好莱坞的重磅情节，布拉德利·库珀将制片人乔恩·彼得斯描绘成一个疯狂的疯子，他实际上购买了其中一张床。西恩·潘也出现在一个充满奇怪故事的演员中（改名，但只是略有不同），尽管尚不清楚他能否将现实与电影区分开来。
“甘草比萨”真的没有太多的情节，就像一系列松散连接的剧集一样，在下半场变得更加明显。它也没有真正解决关于阿拉娜的一些烦人的问题，她周期性的发脾气是电影中唯一写得不好的场景之一。
撇开这些免责声明不谈，在大多数情况下，安德森（自从他的上一部电影“幻影线”以来已经导演了许多海姆的视频）提供了另一部非常有趣的电影，捕捉了一个非常特殊的时间，但也体现了人际关系发展的持久和普遍性质以最意想不到的方式。
顺便说一下，这个标题来自于 70 年代流行但已不复存在的连锁唱片店——这是希望让这个过去的时代再次旋转的恰当象征。
“披头士乐队：回来”（11 月 25 日，迪士尼+）
在一部长达近八小时的三部分纪录片中，导演彼得·杰克逊基本上在披头士乐队中放开了“指环王”的手法。借助迈克尔·林赛-霍格 (Michael Lindsay-Hogg) 拍摄的前所未见的镜头，电影制作人 (非常) 深入地了解了 Fab Four 在 1970 年具有里程碑意义的专辑“Let It Be”的创作过程。
这是一场令人惊叹的爱的亲密劳动，在尽管有摄像机的情况下仍然让人感到毫无防备的时刻，令人着迷地瞥见了该团体的人际交往动态——以及创造性的紧张局势。唯一的缺点是篇幅过长，在某些方面需要涉足以较小键操作的材料，尽管有一种明显的方法可以解决这种疯狂。
虽然杰克逊显然满足于让甲壳虫乐队来说话，但更多的策划肯定不会受到伤害。尽管如此，对于任何学习音乐史的学生来说，“Get Back”还是提供了一种快速访问和深入了解乐队随后解散的原因，这是非常不可抗拒的，即使它可能更适合小口消费而不是一大口。
再说一次，总的来说，这对于本周末来说并不是一个坏建议。
作为脚注，杰克逊对披头士的颂歌紧接在“布莱恩·威尔逊：漫长的承诺之路”之后，这是对海滩男孩主谋的生活和职业生涯的非凡回顾，其中包括布鲁斯·斯普林斯汀和埃尔顿·约翰在内的所有赞美他的声音.
“他脑子里有一个管弦乐队，”约翰惊叹道。 “披头士让 [制片人] 乔治·马丁为他们做这件事，但布赖恩自己做了。”
并非每个音乐中流砥柱都值得这种广泛的待遇，但正如威尔逊本人所写，这不是很好吗？
“沃尔顿一家的归来”（美国东部时间 11 月 28 日晚上 8 点，CW）
在推出原始系列的电影 50 年后，理查德·托马斯（Richard Thomas）再次以电视电影的形式重新介绍和讲述了这次非常热切的（还有什么？）重返沃尔顿山。这个故事取决于爸爸是否会回家过圣诞节。新演员阵容以“丑闻”的贝拉米·杨饰演奥利维亚，洛根·施罗耶（《这就是我们》）饰演约翰·博伊。是的，每个人都说“晚安”。 （它来自 Warner Bros. Television，例如 CNN，WarnerMedia 的一部分。）
“纳什桥”（美国东部时间 11 月 27 日晚上 9 点）
纳什和乔又回到了电影长度的冒险中，许多年轻的同事取笑前者是恐龙，偶尔也会抱怨老人在追车时使用定向应用程序。
在也许最受启发的皱纹中，马林的角色在经营大麻药房方面取得了成功，这肯定是他的 Cheech & Chong 喜剧路线的品牌。
“你回来是为了这个，你不高兴吗？”纳什问他。粉丝们是否会感到高兴还有待观察，但整件事很轻松，很容易烟消云散。
'Licorice Pizza,' 'The Beatles: Get Back' and 'The Waltons' serve up nostalgia over Thanksgiving
(CNN)Thanksgiving weekend is theoretically all about family. Yet in terms of entertainment options -- to consume with them or as a means of escaping them -- the prevailing theme is heavily tilted toward nostalgia, with projects rooted in the 1960s, '70s and '90s.
Music plays a sizable role in all this, not surprisingly, with director Peter Jackson's multi-part documentary "The Beatles: Get Back" making its debut on Disney+, a few days after a film devoted to another '60s act, the Beach Boys, hit theaters and on demand with the touching "Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road."
There are also strong musical undercurrents to the movies "Licorice Pizza," an unorthodox look at Southern California's San Fernando Valley during the 1970s, from directing auteur Paul Thomas Anderson; and "House of Gucci," a salacious true-crime tale about the fight over the fashion empire that spans a period from the late '70s (disco dominate the soundtrack) to the mid-'90s.
Finally, the weekend features a pair of made-for-TV movie reboots and revivals, with the CW's "The Waltons' Homecoming" -- based on the 1970s TV show set in the 1930s -- and USA's "Nash Bridges," reuniting Don Johnson and Cheech Marin two decades after the cop show cracked its last case on CBS.
That's obviously a relatively small part of the holiday viewing feast, which includes the customary deluge of Christmas-themed movies (which seems to start earlier every year) and other nostalgic items like Disney+'s "Home Sweet Home Alone," which strands another unlucky kid more than 30 years after the original exercise in bad parenting.
Here are a few meatier thoughts on some of these titles. And whatever you choose to watch before, during or after Thanksgiving, Bon Appetit.
"Licorice Pizza" (theaters, Nov. 26)
In a way, "Licorice Pizza" is the embodiment of nostalgia without sentiment, capturing a time and place in the 1970s when Nixon was on TV, Vin Scully called Dodger games on radio, gas lines formed because of shortages, and a boss could brazenly slap the behind of his female employee without fear of repercussions.
At its core, the movie is a peculiar love story, one involving Gary (Cooper Hoffman, the son of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman), who's about to turn 16, and the older Alana (Alana Haim, of the rock band), who finds direction in an otherwise unfocused life thanks to Gary's get-rich-quick schemes, which include peddling water beds.
A few actual '70s characters find their way into the pair's Hollywood-heavy plot, with Bradley Cooper portraying producer Jon Peters as a wildly flamboyant lunatic who actually purchases one of the beds. Sean Penn also turns up as an actor (the name is changed, but only slightly) full of strange stories, although it's not entirely clear that he can separate reality from his movies.
"Licorice Pizza" really doesn't have much of a plot, playing like a series of loosely connected episodes, in a way that becomes more obvious during the second half. Nor does it really address some of the nagging questions about Alana, whose periodic tantrums are among the film's only poorly written scenes.
Those disclaimers aside, for the most part Anderson (who has directed a number of Haim videos since his last film, "Phantom Thread") has delivered another highly entertaining movie, capturing a very particular time but also the enduring and universal nature of relationships developing in the most unexpected ways.
The title, incidentally, comes from a chain of record stores that were popular in the '70s but no longer exist -- a fitting symbol of the desire to give this bygone era another spin.
"The Beatles: Get Back" (Nov. 25, Disney+)
Director Peter Jackson essentially lets loose "The Lord of the Rings" approach on the Beatles, in a three-part documentary that runs nearly eight hours. With access to previously unseen footage shot by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, the filmmaker takes a (very) deep dive into the Fab Four's creative process as they worked on the landmark 1970 album "Let It Be."
It's a stunningly intimate labor of love, offering a fascinating glimpse of the group's interpersonal dynamics -- and creative tensions -- in what feel like unguarded moments despite the camera's presence. The only drawback is the exhaustive length, which in some respects requires wading through the material that operates in a lesser key, though there's an obvious method to that madness.
While Jackson is clearly content to let the Beatles do the talking, a bit more curating certainly wouldn't have hurt. Still, for any student of musical history, "Get Back" presents the kind of fly-on-the-wall access and insight into why the band subsequently broke up that's pretty irresistible, even if it's perhaps better consumed in smaller bites as opposed to one great gulp.
Then again, that's not bad advice for this weekend in general.
As a footnote, Jackson's ode to the Beatles comes on the heels of "Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road," an extraordinary look back on the Beach Boys mastermind's life and career that features all the right voices lauding him, including Bruce Springsteen and Elton John.
"He had an orchestra in his head," John marvels. "The Beatles had [producer] George Martin to do it for them, but Brian did it himself."
Not every musical mainstay warrants this kind of expansive treatment, but as Wilson himself wrote, wouldn't it be nice?
"The Waltons' Homecoming" (Nov. 28, 8 p.m. ET, CW)
Fifty years after the movie that launched the original series, Richard Thomas returns to introduce and narrate this very earnest (what else?) return to Waltons Mountain, again in TV movie form. The story hinges on whether dad will make it home for Christmas. The new cast features "Scandal's" Bellamy Young as Olivia, with Logan Shroyer ("This is Us") as John Boy. And yes, everyone says "goodnight." (It's from Warner Bros. Television, like CNN, part of WarnerMedia.)
"Nash Bridges" (Nov. 27, 9 p.m. ET, USA)
Nash and Joe are back in a movie-length adventure, with a lot of younger colleagues who tease the former about being a dinosaur and the occasional old-man gripe about things like using directional apps during a car chase.
In perhaps the most inspired wrinkle, Marin's character has found success running a cannabis dispensary, which is certainly on brand with his Cheech & Chong comedic routes.
"Aren't you glad you came back for this one?" Nash asks him. Whether fans will be glad remains to be seen, but the whole thing is breezy in a way that could easily go up in smoke.
