Jacques Tati/Play Time

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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)

watch it on the big screen: http://www.yale.edu/cinema/

if you do, give a shout! figuratively speaking

― youn (youn), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

in 70mm?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 21 September 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

Probably 16.

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 21 September 2006 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

well i hope it's a nice print.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 21 September 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

It's playing in 70mm in Amsterdam next month...

― Orange (Orange), Thursday, 21 September 2006 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

I just watched it for the first time in a while with the Criterion re-release, and it's probably my favorite movie to just look at by a pretty wide margin. I also like how there are no "memorable quotes" listed on the IMDB page. Here's a shortish blurb I wrote.

― nate p. (natepatrin), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

I got it at home waiting for me.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

The extras are supposed to be great, though the only one I've watched so far is the making-of doc. The shot of Tati chucking a copy of the script at one of the skyscraper facades as it's being pulled down is amazing.

― nate p. (natepatrin), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

there are no "memorable quotes" listed on the IMDB page.

true, but my favorite line has to be "c'est cod."

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

(though the stray bits of "ambient" dialogue from mr. hulot's holiday stick in my mind more: "eh bien cher madame dans cet epoque j'etait cap-i-taine de cavalry..."

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

er, j'etais

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't watched the extras yet. there are some french docus on tati that i was surprised didn't make it on the new dvd.

additionally there is a fabulous book in france (which is actually out of print i think) on the production of "playtime" (written by..stephane goudet maybe?) which deserves to be translated. he did another one on "jour de fete," concentrating on the preparation of the first true color version in the 1990s.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

really these are the only BOOKS (as opposed to stray articles) on tati that i like a lot.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

no memorable quotes, but all the squeaky glass and chairs and broken glass and ice makes for one of the most memorable soundtrack soundscapes, no?

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

damn, I will turn on the subtitles to catch the Buchwaldisms!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

I liked Mon oncle a lot more than this movie, although that might be because I saw it first. And have seen it many times more.

Seriously, though, the sound design in Tati's movies is just endlessly fascinating - i don't remember ever paying attention to sound in movies before Mon oncle

― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

Mon Oncle is the only Tati I don't like, not sure why

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Glorious. Says more about the Alienation of Modern Life than Antonioni.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

but doesn't tati kind of redeem it though?

i mean

http://cyclo60.myouebe.net/CinemaTV/Mon_oncle_5.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 02:12 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

Parade is playing here tomorrow night; wish I'd caught Traffic

FIAF

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

just rented this on spur of the moment. have seen no tati. will report back.

― J.D., Monday, 20 August 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

love love love it - no one uses sound the way tati does

impossible to imagine any film even remotely like this getting made today

have maybe never laughed so hard at anything as at the old doorman with his electronic buzzers

the restaurant/party scene goes on way too long though

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:12 (eighteen years ago)

the restaurant/party scene goes on way too long though

Whoa.

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

Do you think it's too boring? Too didactic? I can't imagine the film without that scene's ecstatic peak.

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:34 (eighteen years ago)

I have a poster for this movie above my bed. :)

― kenan, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:40 (eighteen years ago)

I watch this movie whenever I feel like I'm forgetting where I am or how to react to the city properly.

― kenan, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:41 (eighteen years ago)

it's fatiguing trying to keep up with all the details in the party scene once dinner has degenerated; it's just overload for me. there's a curiously fine line between overexcitement and boredom.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:44 (eighteen years ago)

You don't have that problem with the other scenes? So much of the fun of the film, for me anyway, is figuring out how to divide your attention; there's no way to keep up with every line of action in a single viewing. This is certainly most apparent in the dinner scene, but it seems like you would already had to have sunk into the movie's rhythm.

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:52 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think you need explain yourself further or anything--if the scene drags for, it drags for you; I just love the shit out of this movie and that sequence in particular.

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:53 (eighteen years ago)

i guess it is, in that way, a very realistic depiction of a party

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:57 (eighteen years ago)

beautiful beautiful movie -- i bought the dvd in the tower blowout and have been in the mood to watch it again.

― get bent, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:59 (eighteen years ago)

This film is best watched without subtitles, so you don't get distracted from the action. No-one says anything really anyway.

― Matt #2, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:59 (eighteen years ago)

there's a curiously fine line between overexcitement and boredom.

this was my problem with bourne ultimatum.

― get bent, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 02:00 (eighteen years ago)

otm

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 02:50 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

Tati's CENTENNIAL is today!

Viva Jacques.

http://www.tativille.com/

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

M. White to thread.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

Ha! I was just thinking that I wanted to see this again last week.

― Michael White, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

I was just summoning you to correct Morbius's French.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 23:28 (eighteen years ago)

merde!

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

i still haven't seen M. Hulot's holiday, or the even earlier one.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

yesterday i saw someone buying Play Time in a music/DVD shop and it made me happy

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

See them both, Tracer!

I was just re-reading pieces of Michel Chion's Tati book. It's really great (and the only worthwhile book-length Tati study I've read--I don't read French very well though). Chion's writing is pretty loose and digressive, but he fusses over the right details and never feels unmoored from the films he writes about.

― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 10 October 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

Chion rules - and he LOVES Tati to bits

i just saw "A man condemned to death has escaped" by Bresson last night and hoo I bet Chion absolutely drools over that movie - the sound in it really is the hero, even if is necessarily formally subjugated etc. etc.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

I hate Tati, the last thing Chaplin needed to be was French.

― da croupier, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

You might yet come around.

(Great film, echoing pretty much all the praise above. Watched it last night while recovering from a day of feeling very under the weather and it improved my mood immeasurably.)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

I wasn't too keen on the first two Hulot movies (the 2nd is just painful) but this movie's great.

― abanana, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

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