#112/#729: TATI, Jacques: PlayTime (1967)
TATI, Jacques (France)
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
#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
Jacques Tati was 50 when he directed PlayTime.
Screenplay by Tati and Jacques Lagrange.
Screenplay by Tati and Jacques Lagrange.
English dialogue by Art Buchwald.
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
#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.
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