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hope it plays for more than one week. they only have 70mm projection in the big theater, which means either (a) after a week it'll disappear or (b) it'll stay in the big theater for two or more weeks. i have plans to see it with a friend.

― amateur!!st, Friday, 27 August 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

is this a local phenomenon or will it tour/open elsewhere?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 27 August 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

it will tour like abba, in a fine stylee

― amateur!!st, Friday, 27 August 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually Sarah said we could do whatever I wanted tonight (no jokes, losers), so it's possible we might hit the 8:00 show.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I sold my dvd of Playtime for 80 bucks last year, time for the re-purchase!

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 28 August 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

That reminds me I need to put my Red Desert DVD on eBay before somebody reissues the fucker.

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Saturday, 28 August 2004 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Saw this today, what a fucking insane movie. I was actually pretty overwhelmed when we stepped out of the theater. Great though. The entire restaurant sequence is one of the most intense things I've seen on film.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Sunday, 29 August 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Momus was OTM above about this possibly being difficult for those unaccustomed to silent films. I mean, it's not silent, but you have to basically take the entire thing in visually (and it's a hell of a lot to take in). But I found the effort rewarding.

Oh, I didn't care for M. Hulot's Holiday, I thought this was vastly better. Maybe just seeing it on a big screen in a beautifully crisp print versus a kind of muddy VHS version, but still.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Sunday, 29 August 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish Criterion would announce this already.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 29 August 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I really like Ebert's Great Movies review of Hulot, and will point out that one line in it - "Mr. Hulot's Holiday'' is a French film, with hardly any words in it - is more descriptive than it sounds. Jour de Fete is a good alternative for those looking for something funny (as opposed to good-humored).

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 29 August 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The entire restaurant sequence is one of the most intense things I've seen on film.

-- n.a. (nu...) (webmail), August 28th, 2004 9:24 PM. (Nick A.) (later) (link)

it's almost exhausting, your eyes and ears (

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 29 August 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck...

it's almost exhausting, your eyes and ears do so much work just to keep up with what's going on. the "ears" part is vital--this movie owes something to silent film but is emphatically NOT a silent film--the soundtrack is utterly phenomenal.

i'm gonna see this tomorrow.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 29 August 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

the extra footage was surprisingly meaty and included some remarkable shots. although it also included a scene where hulot actually talks intelligibly (for a few seconds), which was weird.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 30 August 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

but yeah, this is still the best film ever.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 30 August 2004 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)

which waiter do you prefer?

the poor guy stuck outside, the guy who keeps primping himself, the cackling elderly guy, or the lost-looking nerdy guy?

― amateur!!st, Monday, 30 August 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The guy who keeps fixing his hair was oddly reminiscent of Paul Reubens. I think he was my favorite.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Monday, 30 August 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah somebody in the audience yelled out "pee-wee!"

god this movie is good.

anyone want to see it again this week? i might try to see it a few times before it goes. it'll probably be a few decades before i get another chance.

next time i'm sitting real close to the screen.

― amateur!!st, Monday, 30 August 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I don't know, but certainly get in touch and let me know when you're planning to go.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Monday, 30 August 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously this movie makes me really proud to be human

heh maybe i'll go tonight! i need to figure out my plans this week.

― amateur!!st, Monday, 30 August 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I really liked it a lot. The part in the middle when he goes to the guy's apartment and watches TV was a little dull (relatively) but it did serve as a nice breather between the exhibition hall and the restaurant.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Monday, 30 August 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, also, the DVD has an introduction from David Lynch. If anyone is familiar with the final episode of Twin Peaks, you'll notice that the sequence where the bank teller totters from end of the bank and back in long shot is ripped from a similar gag in Play Time.
-- amateurist (amateuris...), July 29th, 2003.

i'm talking about the guard who lets hulot into the glass lobby of course. i like how he keeps carefully placing his cigarette back in the ashtray, taking it out for one drag, then putting it back.

am i the only one to have observed the "twin peaks" connection?

xpost

whenever i pass by one of those big lofts with the shades pulled up i think of that scene.

i like how the "middle-aged guy striptease" motif is reprised later in the restaurant (the guy on stage).

one thing i noticed that i hadn't noticed before: just how many people in the long shots are actually cardboard cutouts. and how, once you notice them, you start looking out for cardboard cutouts. and how tati fucks with you by having real people stand stock still like cardboard cutouts, only to move and frustrate you once you think you've identified them.

this movie's title is so apt.

― amateur!!st, Monday, 30 August 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

also i somehow missed this before but there is a breathless reference in play time.

― amateur!!st, Monday, 30 August 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I would definitely have to read up on this before seeing it again to know what to look out for the second time around. I didn't even notice one cardboard cutout!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 30 August 2004 16:15 (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. (Nick A.), Monday, 30 August 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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)

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