Jacques Tati/Play Time

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The ending is great! When the bus is driving around the circle and she looks at the cars on hydraulics and the people on the street and the street lamps that match the flowers that Hulot gave her.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Monday, 30 August 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I really liked the guy who comesinto the waiting room near the beginning and keeps hitting his papers and tapping his watch and clicking his pen.
-- n.a. (nu...), August 30th, 2004.

he's like a walking autechre track! well, a sitting autechre track.

how about when the window-washer tilts the window in which the bus is reflected, and the passengers bob like the bus is being lifted and let down repeatedly. (there's also a split-second where something passes by the bus and all the passengers' heads whip around. blink and you miss it.)

― amateur!!st, Monday, 30 August 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i work across from the two federal buildings, and i can't help thinking about tativille:

http://www.emporis.com/en/il/im/?id=151302

― amateur!!st, Monday, 30 August 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I have this on a copied dvd, I can't watch it, it's a travesty!

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 30 August 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

get the bfi dvd. or better yet, buy a loft and a 70mm projector.

― amateur!!st, Monday, 30 August 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe i will see this again wednesday...

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow. I know nothing about this movie, except that I hear it namechecked a lot, and I haven't even read this entire thread, just the new stuff, but I'm TOTALLY intrigued.

I'd be down for seeing it sometime this weekend -- during the day would be better, I think.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

It's pretty good, jaymc, but it's no "Garden State."

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

(note: this may be sarcastic)

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

So, where can you order this on DVD?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this the one to get? On IMDB, they also reference a Criterion reissue with better sound and the extra footage, but don't say when it's supposed to come out.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

wait for the new criterion one, which should come out next year.

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

(the french dvd looks nice but it's probably not worth paying the overseas shipping.)

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder if they have a commentary track. That way you could watch it with some sort of dialogue.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

???? sarah you are weird

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

the best line, when the waiter brings the old couple (who are babbling in english and french) their fish: "c'est cod!"

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I LIKE PLAYTIME, GUYS!!!!!

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I know I'm weird. :-(

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

hi cozen!!!

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

convince me to drive 2 and a half hours to go see this please

fuck.

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 2 September 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

if you're not convinced by this thread... i'm not sure what else i can say! you should see it!

does it really take 2 1/2 hours from where you are?

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, unless i really want to push it... remember, i am in goddamn champaign

god, i want to see this in the theater so bad, but 5 hours of driving isnt that pleasant

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

oh i forgot you are at school now.

maybe you can come up here for the weekend and catch it?

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i wish, but i am working the entire weekend, like 10 hours a day.

i feel that tomorrow is my last hope

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

tomorrow is obi wan kenobi to your imperial federation

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck it, i am going.

you cant always see playtime in 70mm.

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 2 September 2004 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

it was worth 5 hours of driving.

i agree with most that has been said. the waiter who constantly primped himself was absolutely classic.

and the loud american, so spot on.

that whole restaurant scene was so complex and great. this film seemed more like real life (people always doing stuff in the background).

pithy.

― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 3 September 2004 07:20 (twenty-one years ago)

That sounds awesome. I am going on Labor Day, I think.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 September 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i've seen this three times now! i might make it four.

btw i'm buying this soon:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000065CGB.08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 6 September 2004 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The plan is tomorrow (Monday) at 8 pm. I'll be there with R., although anyone else is welcome to join us.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 September 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

(1) i want to make sure everyone has visited www.tativille.com because it is amazing

(2) tati DOUBLE FEATURE at the wilmette this week!

― amateur!!st, Sunday, 31 October 2004 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.tativille.com/uk/index.php?page=starter&anim=pickup&width=800&height=600&titre=Tativille:%20Pick%20%20up

!!!

― amateur!!st, Sunday, 31 October 2004 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

!!!

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 31 October 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

what is that picture of, amateurist? a book, a record, a box set?

I would just like to categorically state that my first born child will be called jacques tati. he can be friends with your harry dean stanton.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 31 October 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never looked at this thread with images on before. my loss.

I wish there was a cinema tht played 'play time' every day.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 31 October 2004 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

My favorite waiter is the second primping-in-the-mirror one, who gets handed the fish after the first waiter spent too long looking in the mirror.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 2 April 2005 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

that's the guy who starts "fixing" the fish platter with his fingers, right? so gross.

i love this movie so much.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 2 April 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, he rearranges the oranges (or whatever) AFTER fixing his hair.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 2 April 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

can't remember if these have been linked here or no:

pictures

senses of cinema

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)

A wondrous film. I've seen it in theaters 3 or 4 times, because ANY kind of home viewing would seem to diminish it.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 April 2005 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

I just bought this for my room

http://www.cinaff.com/affiches/mon%20oncle.jpg

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Nice!

Still no word yet from Criterion on a re-release.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Any word yet on an amateurist re-release?

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

That Mon Oncle poster is in the center window of the Brill Building currently. You can see it when walking across the street.

― PappaWheelie B.C., Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/05/37/tati.html

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

Showing Fri/Sat/Sun in Astoria, NYC:

http://movingimage.us/site/screenings/mainpage/rep_nights.html

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:39 (twenty years ago)

I got this, for my birthday

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

deluxe 2-disc Criterion edition out!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

That Mon Oncle poster can be seen in the Brill Building from the street currently.

― and PappaWheelie, author of Have You Ever Been Poxy Fuled? (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

I hope to post that again in one year...

― and PappaWheelie, author of Have You Ever Been Poxy Fuled? (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

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