The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Tati (1907-1982) was the screen's most fastidious director of comedy and the greatest visual humorist since the silent days of Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd whom he revered, and this comic cornucopia contains all his feature films except Trafic (1971). The first four are increasingly ambitious masterpieces generally using onomatopoeic sound rather than dialogue. The last, Parade (1974), is an anthology...
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Here we go again. First we had Jacques Tati, then Audrey Tautou, then Alain Delon, then Jacques Chirac, and now it's Serge Gainsbourg's turn. The agency that manages the advertising on Paris buses and metros has rejected a poster for the upcoming biopic about French icon Serge Gainsbourg. The makers of the poster were confident that [...]
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents a 10-film retrospective of the French screenwriter, director, and actor Jacques Tati (born Jacques Tatischeff, 1907-1982), in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters from December 18, 2009, through January 2, 2010. Jacques Tati features newly struck 35mm prints of his six feature films, including beautiful restorations of M. Hulot's 'Holiday' (1953), 'Mon...
James Wolcott's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
That was some sorry swath of comedy material the writers wrapped January Jones in last night on SNL, the Rear Window parody one long whoopie cushion shtick and the spacy local reporter/Dairy Queen employee routine a series of air pockets...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles Early Summer (1951) .. Yasujiro Ozu Late Spring (1949) .. Yasujiro Ozu Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson Tokyo Story (1953) .. Yasujiro Ozu Man with a Movie Camera (1929) .. Dziga Vertov La Règle du Jeu (1939) .. Jean Renoir Playtime (1967) .. Jacques Tati L'Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau The Conformist (1970) .. Bernardo Bertolucci...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
ONE of the greatest cinematic love affairs of the past half-century has been between British film fans and an angular, accident-prone beanpole of a Frenchman named Monsieur Hu
The Oxford Times | Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Review of The Jacques Tati Collection
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Sid Caesar once said, "One man's tragedy is another man's comedy," and this French-Belgian farce, with less than five minutes of onscreen dialogue, illustrates that truth. In a nod to pantomime masters Jacques Tati, Charlie Chaplin and...
Movie Talk (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The celebrated French film-maker and comic performer Jacques Tati gets a well-deserved collectable box set, courtesy of BFI DVD, bringing together five of his most important works. Jour de fête sees Tati equal Chaplin and Keaton in his role as a simple postman doing his rounds during a carnival [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
French Film Festival , Nationwide Another cross-channel package of established talents and rising stars, including this year's hot tip A Prophet, fresh from its Best Film triumph at the London Film Festival. Other recent features include Versailles, (with a heartrending performance from the late Guillaume Dépardieu), outsider artist biopic Séraphine, Agatha Christie sleuth caper Crime...
virtualreview: china|blogs (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Alliance Française keeps serving movies to all who are charmed by the rich French cinema history. On Saturday they offer a "crossed movies"- experience, where one 1953 Jacques Tati classic meets a 2008 drama featuring Isabelle Huppert. The event is calle...
Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Alliance Française keeps serving movies to all who are charmed by the rich French cinema history. On Saturday they offer a "crossed movies"- experience, where one 1953 Jacques Tati classic meets a 2008 drama featuring Isabelle Huppert . The event is called "Crossed Movies : Modern and burlesque society". Two movies will be screened, and as the event title suggests, it will...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
In the world of international animation it is hard to think of anyone whose reputation has grown larger with a single project than Sylvain Chomet's. Chomet burst on to the international scene in 2003 with The Triplets of Belleville - or Belleville Rendez Vous , if you prefer - his debut feature, a film which one him instant and much deserved fame around the globe. Not only was Chomet a very deliberate...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
News: The BFI have announced the UK DVD release of three box-set collections in November 2009. These sets package together existing releases for the holiday season and are outlined below… 2nd November 2009 The Jacques Tati Collection - £39.99 RRP - J...
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