In the course of my daily rummaging, I happened upon this beautiful French one-sheet (pictured left) for Alain Resnais’s “Wild Grass” that instantly takes the lead in my personal “poster of the year” race. (The film, as we recently mentioned, has the honor of opening the New York Film Festival.)
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.
• Steve Appleford taps into Spinal Tap, 25 years later. [Los Angeles Times]
• Dennis Lim, meanwhile, revisits the “last gasp of an old-fashioned modernism” that is “Last Year at Marienbad.” [Los Angeles Times]
• A few of the cinema’s most inspiring, moving and emotional dad moments. [Empire]
• John Hiscock talks “Year One” with Jack Black. [Daily Telegraph]
• Popcorn as a sexual aid? [The Guardian]
• Lou Lumenick, spinning his wheels, wonders whether the top brass shakeup at Paramount this week is prelude to a merger with Universal Pictures. [Lumenick on Film]
• Sam Mendes beat Martin Scorsese to the “Middlemarch” punch. [The Independent]
• Speaking of which, Brad Brevet accuses Sam Mendes of attacking the state of American marriage. If the shoe fits… [Rope of Silicon]