The pleasure and pain of cinephilia: what happened when I watched Groundhog Day every day for a year

By Adam Daniel, Tutor / Lecturer in Film and Media Studies, Western Sydney University

“What would you do if you were stuck in one place, and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?”

So asks time-stranded weatherman Phil Connors, played by Bill Murray, as he begins to come to grips with his predicament in the 1993 comedy classic Groundhog Day.

On February 2, while reporting on the annual Groundhog Festival in the quaint Pennsylvanian town of Punxsutawney, Phil becomes trapped in a time warp where he lives the same day over and over again.

In 2021 I was wrestling with the same question. Living in lockdown, I was feeling…

Read complete article

~	As climate change amplifies urban flooding, here’s how communities can become ‘sponge cities’

~	The National Aboriginal Hockey Championship celebrates the strength of Indigenous sporting communities

~	An outsider on the inside: how Ans Westra created New Zealand’s ‘national photo album’

~	Controversial ‘Steal from Loblaws Day’ is not just illegal — it won’t foster meaningful change

~	A ‘conservation conundrum’ – when rat control to conserve one species threatens another

~	Yes, adults can develop food allergies. Here are 4 types you need to know about

~	Martha isn’t Baby Reindeer’s biggest villain. So why is she painted as such?

~	First Nations imprisonment is already at a record high. Unless government policy changes, it will only get worse

~	War games risk stirring up troubled waters as Philippines − emboldened by US − squares up to Beijing at sea

~	Guatemala: Amnesty International condemns yet another unjustified delay in trial of prisoner of conscience Virginia Laparra