Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >