Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter, this is the one I was thiniking of : A MUST see BTW. From wiki : Playtime <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playtime> (1967), shot in 70mm <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/70mm>, was the most daring and expensive work of Tati's career; it took him nine years to complete and he was forced to borrow heavily from his own resources to complete the picture. For Playtime, Tati fabricated a set (dubbed 'Tativille') on the outskirts of Paris that emulated an entire modern city. In the film, Tati and a group of American tourists lose themselves in a futuristic glass-and-steel Paris, where only human nature and a few hints of an older France still emerge to breathe life into the city. Narratively, Playtime had even less of a plot than his earlier films, and Tati endeavored to make his characters, including Hulot, almost incidental to his portrayal of a modernist and robotic Paris. phx Peter Dzwig wrote: > Philippe, > > Ah, the late M. Tati - <<Les vacances de M. Hulot>>(?), yes I first > saw it in the late 60s, by which time it was already old (Wikipedia > tells me 1953). > > There were other things happening in France then...of which it is of > course the fortieth anniversary now. > > For listers who don't know him, Tati was a sort of Mr. Bean, I think > that Rowan Atkinson admits that he was his inspiration. But > underneath the slaptick there was a certain amount of social and > political commentary. Tati got nominated for the Oscar for best > screenplay for it. Check out: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Tati > > I must say I hadn't thought of it as Tati-esque, but I can see it now > that you point it out. > > Peter > > Philippe AMARD wrote: > >> >> >> Peter Dzwig wrote: >> >>> Philippe, >>> >>> Philippe AMARD wrote: >>> >>>> Nice series - Brussels looks as if it had been taken 50 years ago , >>>> with an idea of advertising the advantages of urban life ... >>> >>> >>> >>> Or today, but advertising the disadvantages! >>> >> Or anticipating on them - Jacques Tati - have you ever seen his >> movies ? This is what came to my mind >> phx >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >