#112/#729: TATI, Jacques: PlayTime (1967)
TATI, Jacques (France)
#112: Selected scene commentary by film historian Philip Kemp.
A 1967 short film written by and starring Tati.
A 2013 visual essay on PlayTime by A 1967 short film written by and starring Tati.
A 1967 episode of the British television program Tempo International, featuring an interview with Tati from the set of PlayTime.
PlayTime [1967]
Spine #112/#729
Blu-ray
Blu-ray
Jacques Tati's gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in the age of technology reached their creative apex with Playtime. For this monumental achievement, a nearly three-year-long, bank-breaking production, Tati again thrust the endearingly clumsy, resolutely old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot, along with a host of other lost souls, into a baffingly modernist Paris. With every inch of its superwide frame crammed with hilarity and inventiveness, Playtime is a lasting testament to a modern age tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion.
124 minutes
Color
Color
3.0 Surround
in French
1:78:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2009
Director/Writers
Screenplay by Jacques Tati and Jacques Lagrange.
English dialogue by Art Buchwald.
Tati was 50 when he directed PlayTime.
Other Tati films in the Collection:
#730: Jour De Fête (1949)
#110: Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
#111: Mon Oncle (1958)
#439: Trafic (1971)
#731: Parade (1974)
The Film
Other Tati films in the Collection:
#730: Jour De Fête (1949)
#110: Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
#111: Mon Oncle (1958)
#439: Trafic (1971)
#731: Parade (1974)
The Film
Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
#112: Eight-page wraparound featuring an essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum.
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The ExtrasThe Booklet
#112: Eight-page wraparound featuring an essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum.
#729: Sixty-eight page booklet featuring essays by James Quandt (Scatterbrained Angel: The Films of Jacques Tati); Jonathan Rosenbaum (Composing in Sound and Image); Kristin Ross (Jacques Tati:Historian); and David Cairns (Things Fall Together).
Commentary
#112: Selected scene commentary by film historian Philip Kemp.
#729: Three selected-scene commentaries, by Kemp, theater director Jérôme Deschamps and Tati expert Stéphane Goudet.
#112/#729:
Video introduction
By writer, director, and performer Terry Jones.
Au-delà de “Playtime,”
A short documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the production.
Audio interview
With Tati, from the U.S. debut of PlayTime at the 1972 San Francisco International Film Festival.
#112:
Tati Story
A short biographical film.
Jacques Tati in Monsieur Hulot’s Work
A 1976 BBC Omnibus program featuring Tati.
Jacques Tati in Monsieur Hulot’s Work
A 1976 BBC Omnibus program featuring Tati.
Cours du soir
A 1967 short film written by and starring Tati.
#729:
Like Home
A 2013 visual essay on PlayTime by A 1967 short film written by and starring Tati.
Tativille
A 1967 episode of the British television program Tempo International, featuring an interview with Tati from the set of PlayTime.
Extras Rating (0-40):
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