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It led off the 2003 series at the MoMA called "Hidden God: Film and Faith,." I have a friend whose job description is "ethicist" who thinks it's one of the most important engagements with the idea of the divine that he's ever seen.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/style/groundhog-almighty.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
Groundhog Almighty
By ALEX KUCZYNSKI
Published: December 07, 2003
Correction Appended
A NEW movie series from the Museum of Modern Art, ''The Hidden God: Film and Faith,'' features some pretty brooding stuff. There's a 1955 Danish movie about a man who thinks he is Jesus Christ, an Ingmar Bergman pastiche about a tormented pastor, a Roberto Rossellini movie about monks. These are, of course, the ''intellectual with a capital I'' films that audiences might expect at a religious-theme retrospective organized by a major museum. Subtitles and all that fancy stuff.
With one exception. On Thursday, the opening-night feature at the Gramercy Theater, where the series is being presented, was ''Groundhog Day,'' the 1993 movie starring Bill Murray as a sarcastic television weatherman forced by a twist of fate and magic to relive one day of his life, Feb. 2, over and over.
Since its debut a decade ago, the film has become a curious favorite of religious leaders of many faiths, who all see in ''Groundhog Day'' a reflection of their own spiritual messages. Curators of the series, polling some 35 critics in the literary, religious and film worlds to suggest films with religious interpretations, found that ''Groundhog Day'' came up so many times that there was actually a squabble over who would write about it in the retrospective's catalog. ______________________________
"Walleye, a lot of things are going to go wrong in your life that technically aren't your fault. Always remember that this doesn't make you any less of an idiot"
--Walleye's Dad
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