“The Auteurs of Christmas” video is making the rounds of Facebook profiles and Twitter feeds this week. What if Scorcese, Allen, Herzog or Michael Moore did a featurette about the morning of Christmas? The people at video production outfit Fourgrounds Media imagined, and then filmed, one of the most familiar takes on family life around the holidays, that is, Christmas morning, as would be seen through the eyes of our most popular filmmakers (but there are also cuts by Werner Herzog and Lars Von Trier, my two favorite impressions of the lot).

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