Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, Peter, quite fair to my rememberance of it - I don't know of any equivalent - Hatkinson is just a pale imitation as he plays a character for the character, and there's is no "vision" or bias, or whatever we may call it on society - Tati's love of fast disapperaing rural France, now extinct BTW, or the blinded faith in progress of which he also predicted the deshumanizing side shows through every frame, and the "photograph" is excellent too. phx Peter Dzwig wrote: > Philippe, > > I thought it might be playtime that you were reffering to. No, I don't > think that I have ever seen it. Is the summary fair/accurate? > > Peter > > Philippe AMARD wrote: > >> 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 >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >