Treehugger (Free subscription) | yesterday
Images via Jalopnik They must be making a remake of Jacques Tati's 1971 movie Trafic , where he designs an amazing recreational vehicle with popout seating from rear headlights, a barbecue in the front grille and an electric shaver in the horn. Why else would they pack a fridge, sink, barbecue and more into this Scion'... Read the full story on TreeHugger
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Jacques Audiard's new prison thriller is the most stylish film to come out of Europe for years, following up on the promise of his previous movies Read My Lips and The Beat that My Heart Skipped and confirming his place among the greats of French cinema. Jason Solomons talks to a director who wants his audience to fly with him Jacques Audiard wears a hat. It's a trilby that, the 57-year-old director...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Jacques Tati was a master of burlesque. Emilie Bickerton on a French revolutionary If you told Jacques Tati that his flight was delayed, he'd say terrific – and settle down to watch what he considered "the best movie of the year": people passing by. Observation gave the director all the material he needed for the four films he made over three decades. Tati liked to call himself "the...
Movie Dearest (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
My high school French teacher, Madame Haradon, would occasionally show her students classics of French cinema in her effort to bolster our grasp of her primary language. We saw some great films, including the creepy original version of Diabolique . The best, though, were the nearly wordless comedies of director Jacques Tati that focused on the hapless Monsieur Hulot. Play Time remains my favorite,...
Click opera (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
2003's Oskar Tennis Champion is my first proper album of the new decade, if you see Folktronic as a belated summation of 90s themes. Oskar draws its power from two collaborations with women artists: the Milky album Travels with a Donkey I made with my ex-wife Shazna in New York in early 2002, just before leaving for Tokyo, and the Mashcat mini-album Mashroom Haircat , recorded with Emi Necozawa when...
Blogcritics: Video (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Jacques Tati's silent-film-with-sound scolds the new, blows a kiss to the bygone.
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...
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