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 ...

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David Lynch is an enthusiast, so is Wes Anderson. Jonathan Romney plays tribute to Jacques Tati and to Playtime, his complex comedy about modern life “ Loads of laugh-out-loud moments!” screams the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week, on a whim, I set myself a task. I decided I would watch all the films of Jacques Tati. I’d only seen his Playtime in full, and parts of Mon Oncle. I had time on my hands, a fever having ...

Tati's debut feature tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local inhabitants, as well as inspect the traveling fair ...

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 ...

I am Benjamin Crabtree, and I am a Feature Writer for Collider. I am also the creator of CrabtreeCinema.com and cohost of the upcoming Celluloid Noise Podcast. Beyond writing and talking about cinema, ...

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 ...