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 ...

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 ...

“The Illusionist,” the new movie by the French animator Sylvain Chomet (“The Triplets of Belleville”) is based on a treatment by the great comic actor and filmmaker Jacques Tati.

A new DVD set gives our architecture critic and culture critic reason to consider an ever-relevant master of French cinema.

“To please everyone,” according to France’s most singular comic film star, “you need a good story.” This explains why Jacques Tati never did and never will please ever… ...

Quirky, unusual movies don’t always connect with audiences on an emotional level, but there are some exceptions that have a ...

The Definitive Jacques Tati, edited by Alison Castle. Taschen. 1,136 pages. $225. On the stage of a Swedish music hall, a sixty-four-year-old man in an elegantly cut brown riding costume, with top hat ...

Nearly three decades after his death, French comic actor Jacques Tati has returned to the silver screen — starring in a movie he wrote that was never produced. If this sounds like sleight-of ...

Jacques Tati retrospectives: Bay Area venues celebrate Frenchman's charmingly simple films through next month By G. Allen Johnson Jan 14, 2010 Jacques Tati is M. Hulot in "M. Hulot's Holiday ...

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 ...

Jacques Tati is a Postwar & Contemporary artist. Numerous key galleries and museums such as MAK Museum Vienna have featured Jacques Tati's work in the past. Jacques Tati's work has been offered at ...