While France’s Jacques Tati is widely considered one of cinema’s most inventive directors, like many great artists, his audience took some time to collate. The initial release of perhaps his most ...

Was any comic as fixated on (mis)perception as Jacques Tati? “Sight gag” doesn’t begin to cover the worlds Tati designed—a seaside village, an ultramodernist house, a hall-of-mirrors city—and laced ...

IN the spring of 2003 the animator Sylvain Chomet found himself on a train from Paris to the south of France, where his new film, “The Triplets of Belleville,” was to be shown at the Cannes Film ...

There is a scene in “Mon Oncle,” a 1958 comedy directed by French filmmaker Jacques Tati, where Monsieur Hulot, a Buster Keaton-like character played by Tati himself, visits his nephew at the ...

"A hallucinatory comic vision." Love that quote. Whether or not you're familiar with Jacques Tati's films this is a must see trailer for a must see film. Tati's 1967 visual masterpiece Playtime was ...

Jacques Tati is among the eccentric visionaries of international cinema, a meticulous craftsman, gifted physical comedian and acerbic social observer all rolled into one. His best films, including Mr.

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Follow filmmaker Jacques Tati’s journey to the heights of cinema history. Filmmaker Jacques Tati bet all he had on his fourth feature “Playtime,” a mammoth film that prematurely ended the career of a ...

MADRID — Adding to its 5,000-title film catalog, Studiocanal has acquired worldwide rights beyond French theatrical and festivals to all Jacques Tati’s movies. Inked with Paris-based Les Films de Mon ...

The Guardian has exclusively debuted a rare early short from comedy maestro Jacques Tati, 1947’s “The School for Postmen.” As usual, the French auteur writes, directs and stars in this witty 16-minute ...

During the Occupation of France in World War II, Jacques Tati lived for a time in the sleepy village of Saint-Sévère-sur-Indre in the Centre-Val de Loire region, known to tourists for its imposing ...

But away from the screen, the actor and director was tormented by the guilt and shame he felt for abandoning his illegitimate daughter. It was one of the darkest episodes in his life and it led to him ...