Groundhog's Day

Gabriel Gale · #1 Feb 6, '05, 8:59 pm

The movie Groundhog’s day has been rediscovered. This week there was a snippet from an article on the movie Groundhog Day on NRO.

http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg200502010801.asp

A Movie for All Time
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, Groundhog Day scores

EDITOR'S NOTE: This piece appears in the February 14, 2005, issue of National Review.

Here's a line you'll either recognize or you won't: "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather." If you don't recognize this little gem, you've either never seen Groundhog Day or you're not a fan of what is, in my opinion, one of the best films of the last 40 years.

When the Museum of Modern Art in New York debuted a film series on "The Hidden God: Film and Faith" two years ago, it opened with Groundhog Day. The rest of the films were drawn from the ranks of turgid and bleak intellectual cinema, including standards from Ingmar Bergman and Roberto Rossellini. According to the New York Times, curators of the series were stunned to discover that so many of the 35 leading literary and religious scholars who had been polled to pick the series entries had chosen Groundhog Day that a spat had broken out among the scholars over who would get to write about the film for the catalogue.

Of course I wasn’t as surprised as Mr. Goldberg. All this hoopla over Groundhog Day immediately reminded me of our local theologian at UST in Houston, Dr. Joyce Little, and her excellent 1995 book, The Church and the Culture War. Dr. Little has a wonderful syntopical movie review of Woody Allen’s Crime and Misdemeanors and Groundhog Day as an epilogue. Hopefully, Ignatius Press may reprint this essay on their website.

Matt25 · #2 Feb 7, '05, 7:32 am

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Originally Posted by Gabriel Gale

The movie Groundhog’s day has been rediscovered. This week there was a snippet from an article on the movie Groundhog Day on NRO.

http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg200502010801.asp

A Movie for All Time
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, Groundhog Day scores

EDITOR'S NOTE: This piece appears in the February 14, 2005, issue of National Review.

Here's a line you'll either recognize or you won't: "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather." If you don't recognize this little gem, you've either never seen Groundhog Day or you're not a fan of what is, in my opinion, one of the best films of the last 40 years.

When the Museum of Modern Art in New York debuted a film series on "The Hidden God: Film and Faith" two years ago, it opened with Groundhog Day. The rest of the films were drawn from the ranks of turgid and bleak intellectual cinema, including standards from Ingmar Bergman and Roberto Rossellini. According to the New York Times, curators of the series were stunned to discover that so many of the 35 leading literary and religious scholars who had been polled to pick the series entries had chosen Groundhog Day that a spat had broken out among the scholars over who would get to write about the film for the catalogue.

Of course I wasn’t as surprised as Mr. Goldberg. All this hoopla over Groundhog Day immediately reminded me of our local theologian at UST in Houston, Dr. Joyce Little, and her excellent 1995 book, The Church and the Culture War. Dr. Little has a wonderful syntopical movie review of Woody Allen’s Crime and Misdemeanors and Groundhog Day as an epilogue. Hopefully, Ignatius Press may reprint this essay on their website.

Didn't you post this yesterday?