Jacques Tati Articles

Jacques Tati's Mon oncle AFI FEST 2010 on Wednesday, Nov. 10. Among the highlights are: A 60-minute presentation by Buzz Hays, Senior Vice President of the Sony 3D Technology Center, which will include a 20-minute preview of TRON: Legacy, featuring Garrett Hedlund and Jeff Bridges; Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme (with "Navajo English subtitles"), about — well, your guess is as good as mine; and John [...]

Deborah Kerr, Gail Russell, Jacques Tati Movies: Packard May '10 Series schedule and synopses from the Packard Campus release: Saturday, May 1, 7:30 p.m. "From Here to Eternity" (Columbia, 1953) In this romantic war drama, enlisted men in Hawaii fight for love and honor on the eve of World War II. Named to the National Film Registry in 2002, the film was directed by Fred [...]

Who is the best silent-film comedian? Most people would answer Charles Chaplin. Or Buster Keaton. Or Harold Lloyd. Or even Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. My favorite silent-film comedian? Someone who never made a film either in Hollywood or during the silent era. That's Jacques Tati, who, had he been a Hollywood star, would be considerably better remembered today. But no, Tati belonged to the French film [...]

Jacques Tati in Mr. Hulot’s Holiday FILM The Bandwagon d: Vincente Minnelli; scr: Adolph Green, Betty Comden The Big Heat d: Fritz Lang; scr: Sidney Boehm Blowing Wild d: Hugo Fregonese; scr: Philip Yordan Calamity Jane d: David Butler; scr: James O’Hanlon Gentlemen Prefer Blondes d: Howard Hawks; scr: Charles Lederer How to Marry a Millionaire d: Jean Negulesco; scr: Nunnally Johnson I Confess d: [...]