French filmmaker Jacques Tati went bankrupt while creating 'Playtime,' but years later, it ended up becoming his magnum opus.

If you told Jacques Tati that his flight was delayed, he'd say terrific – and settle down to watch what he considered "the best movie of the year": people passing by. Observation gave the director all ...

If the dawn of sound proved an abrupt and often impermeable curtain for the careers of silent-era comics, at least it proved pliable enough for an exemplary few performers and filmmakers of a later ...

Jacques Tati's short comedy about a bumbling postman on a bike is exclusively available on the Guardian Film website – watch it to see why the French director ranks up with Charlie Chaplin and Buster ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s been quite a year for Jacques Tati fans. On the heels of an exhibition this summer at the Cinémathèque Française devoted to the French director, Tati’s classic “M. Hulot’s Holiday” is currently ...

The Ghent International Film Festival will honor the late French director, actor and comedian Jacques Tati with an exhibition called "In Double Quick Time." By Staff report, The Associated Press The ...

Roger Ebert's pick for a Great Movie this week is Jacques Tati's Mon Oncle, and Gothamist is reminded how watching one of Tati's films is like taking a leisurely vacation (perhaps we're colored by Mr.

In an age that prizes acceleration – where cities grow upwards and outwards at record pace, and buildings are often erected with the logic of impermanence – it’s rare to encounter an architectural ...