If you have a chance, don't walk but run to Lincoln Center to see Jacques Tati's Playtime at the Walter Reade Theater. There's a restored 70mm print (the only French film to be made in 70 mm), and ...
The film sees Tati’s Chaplain-esque Hulot, a quiet, simple man in his trademark trench coat, hat and pipe, try to navigate a modern, sterile, pseudo-futuristic Paris, with hilarious results. And Tati ...
"A hallucinatory comic vision." Love that quote. Whether or not you're familiar with Jacques Tati's films this is a must see trailer for a must see film. Tati's 1967 visual masterpiece Playtime was ...
While France’s Jacques Tati is widely considered one of cinema’s most inventive directors, like many great artists, his audience took some time to collate. The initial release of perhaps his most ...
“Playtime,” that playful masterpiece by the great French comedy-maker Jacques Tati, is a supremely happy film with an extremely unhappy history. But the movie’s sad backstory ends as well as possible, ...
Comprised of one dexterously choreographed set piece after another, “Playtime” is Jacques Tati‘s staggering, ambitious, hysterical and wondrous 1967 symphony of the city — and the most fun you’ll have ...
In honor of the Criterion release of The Complete Jacques Tati, David Cairns looks at the building blocks of the auteur’s visual gags in PlayTime, his finely choreographed exploration of technology ...
MADRID — Adding to its 5,000-title film catalog, Studiocanal has acquired worldwide rights beyond French theatrical and festivals to all the movies by famed filmmaker Jacques Tati. Inked with ...