• Carolyn Giardina floats the possibility of “How to Train Your Dragon” beating “Toy Story 3” for Best Animated Feature with nothing but those (not unexpected) Visual Effects Society wins to justify it. [The Race]
• James Cameron thinks Christopher Nolan should have been nominated for Best Director this year. [Hollywood Reporter]
• Steve Pond explains the voting procedure of the five categories not on the ballots that went out yesterday. [The Odds]
• How many days did Bill Murray re-live in “Groundhog Day?” [Chicago Tribune]
• Screenwriter Roberto Orci to receive Imagen Awards’ Norman Lear Writer’s Award. [Variety]
• David Poland sits down with three more Super Movie Friends to talk “Inglourious Basterds.” [The Hot Blog]
I finally got around to watching Criterion’s wonderful Blu-ray package for Alain Resnais’ New Wave tour de force “Last Year at Marienbad” earlier in the week. I’ll get into the particulars of that sterling disc at a later date, but today I came across the most intriguing theory pertaining to the 1961 classic. From Glenn Kenny at Some Came Running in a brief item titled “Last Year at Punxatawny”:
My Lovely Wife and I have been batting around the notion that Groundhog Day is in fact a loose remake of Last Year At Marienbad.
Nothing more than that aside, though if you’re familiar with both films, nothing more is really needed. A thought tossed out into the ether, ponder it, consider it. Fascinating.
