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Hollywood stars pick their favourite January blues-busting movies
It’s Blue Monday – officially the glummest day of the year – which may soon be followed by Torpid Tuesday, Weepy Wednesday, Thankless Thursday and a variety of other patience-testing days, as we muddle through these wintry, Covid-hit times. So to help banish the gloom we asked some of our favourite actors and filmmakers – from Kristen Stewart to Succession’s mighty Brian Cox – to recommend spirit-lifting movies to settle down to while we wait for this whole January thing to blow over. And they didn’t disappoint. ‘Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is my favourite! I think I’ve seen it forty times and I still sweat laughing at it.’ – Kristen Stewart (Spencer) ‘My favourite film is The Court Jester. It’s one of the funniest films ever made. It didn’t do very well when it opened but it’s become a classic. Danny Kaye is extraordinary.’ – Brian Cox (Succession) Photograph: ParamountBrian Cox stans for Danny Kaye in The Court Jester ‘Watch Network again! Everything (screenwriter) Paddy Chayefsky wrote about in 1975 came true.’ – George Clooney (director, Tender Bar) ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s is always one. It’s such a cliché but I could watch that a million times. Is it because of the cat? It is! Poor old sad old cat with no name.’ – Caitriona Balfe (actor, Belfast) ‘Airplane! always makes me laugh. The sweating scene, “I had to ask the guy next to me to pinch me”, the nun and the intravenous drip... all good.’ – Jesse Armstrong (creator-writer, Succession) ‘It’s probably a comed