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Subject: [Leica] [IMG] PAWs 1 - 5
From: philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD)
Date: Sun May 18 03:34:52 2008
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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
>>
>>
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