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 ...

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 ...

“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 everyone. He left ...

“The Illusionist,” Chomet said, is “kind of a letter from the sky from Jacques Tati.” Tati, who died in 1982 at age 75, was France’s crown prince of comedy.

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

Jacques Tati is M. Hulot in "M. Hulot's Holiday" (1953).Janus/Criterion Collection In many parts of the world, Jacques Tati's bumbling character Monsieur Hulot is as beloved as Charles Chaplin's ...

If Jacques Tati was no longer around to play the part he had written for himself, perhaps his spirit could be captured through animation. She passed the script on to Mr. Chomet and died a few ...

Magnificent Tati. 6/28/2024 | 59m 35s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Follow filmmaker Jacques Tati’s journey to the heights of cinema history. Filmmaker Jacques Tati bet all he had on his ...

SURE, THE FRENCH love Jerry Lewis, but for homegrown physical comedy, they turn to actor/director Jacques Tati’s signature character, Monsieur Hulot. The symbol of French provincialism clumsily ...

Jacques Tati's ode to his illegitimate daughter. To his adoring public, Jacques Tati was the delightful clown whose charming films put a smile back on the face of France after the Second World War.

If you’re a fan of Tati and/or the “ancient art” of hand-drawn animation, this film will be a treat. (And, if you are a Tatiphile, you might even forgive Chomet for the tempting-but-avoidable scene in ...