The best Christmas gift ideas for film lovers | Little White Lies

The best Christ­mas gift ideas for film lovers

28 Nov 2016

Breakfast cereal box with image of a man, surrounded by fruit and other food items on a blue background.
Breakfast cereal box with image of a man, surrounded by fruit and other food items on a blue background.
Spread a lit­tle sea­son­al cheer with our essen­tial guide to the best movie-themed gifts around.

It’s almost Decem­ber, which means it’s time to stop slack­ing and start Christ­mas shop­ping. We know that choos­ing the per­fect gift can be a daunt­ing and stress­ful task, so to help out we’ve com­piled a list of some of our favourite movie-themed gift ideas. Take the rest of the month off, St Nick, we got this…

Before the hot­ly-antic­i­pat­ed third sea­son of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s cult TV show arrives next year, we high­ly rec­om­mend get­ting stuck into this won­der­ful hard­cov­er com­pan­ion nov­el writ­ten by Frost him­self. £19.99 from ama​zon​.co​.uk

Start your day off right by slip­ping into this Bond Flakes screen print t‑shirt, designed by reg­u­lar LWLies con­trib­u­tor Cristi­na Polop. £20 from cristi​napolop​.tic​tail​.com

Thir­ty years after the release of Aki­ra Kurosawa’s tow­er­ing mas­ter­piece, you can now own the stun­ning orig­i­nal sound­track, fea­tur­ing music by Toru Takemit­su, on vinyl cour­tesy of Sil­va Screen Records. £19.99 from sil​vascreen​.com

Love last year’s Christ­mas favourite Car­ol as much as we did? Enjoy the full-colour script with reprint sig­na­tures, along with 37 pages of pro­duc­tion notes. A gor­geous gift for aspir­ing screen­writ­ers. £16.64 from etsy​.com

Hands down our favourite home video release of 2016, this must-have lim­it­ed edi­tion Blu-ray box set con­tains the com­plete ear­ly tele­vi­sion works of revered British film­mak­er Alan Clarke. £110 from shop​.bfi​.org​.uk

Pick up a gift sub­scrip­tion to the world’s most beau­ti­ful film mag­a­zine and ensure an excit­ing movie-packed 2017 for the film lover in your life. Just £29 for six issues from our online shop

Orig­i­nal­ly com­mis­sioned for our LWLies Week­ly app, artist James Wil­son has made a lim­it­ed edi­tion run of screen prints of his ace The Force Awak­ens cov­er art. £5 from jameswilsonil​lus​tra​tion​.big​car​tel​.com

Tired of fight­ing over the best view of the TV? This hol­i­day sea­son you won’t have to with this snazzy lit­tle smart­phone pro­jec­tor, which promis­es to turn every­day Youtube videos into grand cin­e­mat­ic events.” £19.99 from fire​box​.com

This killer print by On a Six­pence gives film nerd’ a whole new mean­ing. Also avail­able in Clas­sics and Romance. £60 from noton​the​high​street​.com

Show off your ado­ra­tion of the Japan­ese ani­ma­tion house with a Tig­gy Tat­toos spe­cial, like this rather love­ly ren­der­ing of Kiki from Kiki’s Deliv­ery Ser­vice. Book a slot at tig​gy​tat​toos​.com

Take a trip to Mid­dle Earth, via North York­shire. This charm­ing Tolkien-inspired cot­tage will make all your family’s Hob­bit dreams come true. £350 per night from northshire​.co​.uk

Wish you could undo 2016? Why not splash out on this clas­sic 1981 time machine auto­mo­bile as fea­tured in the Back to the Future films. £25k from carand​clas​sic​.co​.uk

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