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	Jacques Tati - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jacques Tati (October 9, 1908 – November 5, 1982) was a French filmmaker.
		He was born Jacques Tatischeff, the son of Russian father Georges-Emmanuel Tatischeff and Dutch mother Marcelle Claire Van Hoof, in Le Pecq, Yvelines, and died in Paris.
		Tati's first major feature, Jour de fête, is about a village postman who is influenced by a film shown at the village fair to go to extreme lengths to improve his mail deliveries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacques_Tati (533 words)

	Jacques Tati: Serious Playtime,
		Tati’s unfussy plot decisions simply constructed the necessary unfamiliar environment within which Hulot could be best placed to act as the comedy stooge in relation to the strangeness that surrounded him.
		Tati pioneered a comedic process that relied almost exclusively on visual elements infused with ambient sound; dialogue was almost entirely abandoned as a means to convey humour.
		Tati built sets to represent a notion of modern day Paris, it seems ironic that Jean-Luc Godard’s sci-fi noir thriller Alphaville, filmed two years before, was shot on location in the French capital, despite the events of the film taking place some time in the future.
	www.futuremovies.co.uk /filmmaking.asp?ID=38 (1005 words)

	JACQUES TATI - Confusion movie with Ron & Russell Mael From Sparks
		Jacques Tati wanted to describe in "Confusion" the same world as in "Playtime", a futuristic city (Paris) where activity is centered around pictures and communication, advertising and television.
		Jacques Tatischeff was born in 1908 at Pecq in France.
		Jacques Tati went on to invent for "Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot" the picturesque, awkward and optimistic character that he will forever be associated with.
	graphikdesigns.free.fr /jacques-tati-confusion.html (585 words)

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		Jacques Tati is a chessmaster of modern film comedy, a creator of complex comic structures in which gag constructions and audience expectations become pawns on his cinematic board.
		Tati does not allow his audience to identify with the main character in the scene; as a result, the subject of the shot becomes everything that appears within the frame.
		Although Tati influenced filmmakers as diverse as Jerry Lewis and Robert Altman, his career seems in a way to be both the beginning and the end of a comic tradition.
	home.iae.nl /users/richardl/bio.htm (660 words)

	M. Hulot's Holiday
		Jacques Tati wrote, directed and starred in only 5 feature films between 1948 and 1974, and in all but the first he plays the character, M. Hulot.
		Tati does not focus the camera on one object in the frame; there are many things happening on the screen at the same time.
		Jacques Tati's grandfather was the Dutch frame-maker who built Van Gogh's frames, and Tati was expected to enter the family trade.
	www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDHulotsHoliday.htm (680 words)

	Jacques Tati / director / realisateur / films / biography
		Jacques Tati, the name which is perhaps most associated with French cinema outside of France, occupies an important position in cinema history.
		In 1947, Tati wrote, directed and starred in a short film L' Ecole des facteurs, which appears to be a direct homage to the silent American films of the 1920s (with obvious references to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton).
		Tati, who had used up his own financial resources and turned to friends and relations for money, would be paying of the debts he had accumulated in making the film right up until his death.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_jtati.html (1550 words)

	French culture \| cinema: The Films of Jacques Tati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		French director Jacques Tati (1908-1982), a master of film comedy, is the subject of a complete retrospective - The Films of Jacques Tati - at the American Museum of the Moving Image from December 16 to 31, 2000.
		Although Tati was best known to film goers as the bumbling and bewildered on-screen character Hulot, behind the camera he was a perfectionistic and painstaking craftsman.
		Tati's meticulous work ethic and the exorbitant amount of time he spent refining every detail of his films resulted in a career plagued by production delays and financial problems.
	www.frenchculture.org /cinema/festival/tati/0012ammi.html (572 words)

	French culture \| cinema: The Genius of Jacques Tati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jacques Tati is a man of contradictions: He claimed not to have read much of anything, but his films were nevertheless embraced by France's intellectual elite as vanguard Modernist works.
		Tati is perhaps best known as and inseparable from his iconic creation M. Hulôt, who wanders silently through his four most famous features, attired in a rumpled trench coat and slouch hat, observing or (more often) inadvertently instigating comic catastrophes.
		Tati performs some of his classic sketches in this short film shot on the set of Playtime that contrasts that film's stunning visual design with the run-down surroundings in which it was built.
	www.frenchculture.org /cinema/festival/tati (985 words)

	Jacques Tati Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In all his films, Tati plays the lead and, from his second feature film (Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot) onwards this character is always the gauche and socially inept Monsieur Hulot.
		Tati's script for Les vacances was nominated for the Oscar in 1954; Mon Oncle was honored with the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1958.
		His next project, Playtime, which took him nine years to complete, was his most daring and most expensive (he had a modern city, dubbed Tativille, built in size in a studio), and the commercial failure of the film caused him to produce his final two pictures on a far more modest budget.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Tati_Jacques.html (229 words)

	Mon Oncle Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		With restored versions of two of Jacques Tati's finest films getting a simultaneous release on DVD, this is a perfect time to rediscover the distinctive charms of the eccentric director-actor and his cinematic alter ego, Monsieur Hulot.
		Tati's precisely choreographed slapstick and disdain for dialogue have led many viewers to identify him as an inheritor to the silent comedy tradition of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, and as an ancestor of Rowan Atkinson's Mr.
		Tati stars as a lackadaisical postman, in what would turn out to be a sort of rehearsal for his first feature, Jour de FÃªte.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=941 (1264 words)

	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		Aware that he was taking a calculated risk, Tati employed two cameras--one using color and the other, for safety, using fl and white--but meanwhile he designed the film's settings with color in mind, painting many of the house doors in the village a dark gray and dressing most of the villagers in dark coats.
		Because he shot all his films silently and constructed his sound tracks afterward, Tati was able to create an interplay between image and sound that was never a matter of one simply reinforcing the other, and he used color more to accent the image than to enhance it.
		Most of Tati's work derives from observation rather than pure invention, inflected by the aesthetic and poetic properties of music, painting, and dance (which is where the invention comes in); everyday details are the basic unit of this enterprise rather than incidents designed to advance a plot.
	www.chicagoreader.com /movies/archives/1998/0198/01168b.html (2100 words)

	Playtime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Scenario : Jacques Tati with the collaboration of Jacques Lagrange.
		Tati thought that he could film his movie on location, but the cost and the material difficulties forced him to avoid this part of his project.
		Tati's requirements (shooting again and again the same sequences) and the accumulation of delays make Tati get into very important financial difficulties.
	www.delboy.com /ptus.htm (260 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Biography - Jacques Tati
		Filmmaker and actor Jacques Tati reinvented the art of slapstick comedy, expertly dissecting the nature of sight gags and pratfalls while exploiting viewer expectations to create an ambitious, richly detailed cinematic parlor game perfect for exploring the infinite mysteries of the modern world.
		Born Jacques Tatischeff October 9, 1908, in Le Pecq, France, he first gained notice as a professional rugby player before beginning his performing career in area music halls as a pantomimist and impersonator.
		However, Tati found the François character lacking, and began creating a new persona whom he dubbed Monsieur Hulot; a poker-faced cipher perennially clad in a crumpled raincoat, always with a pipe in his mouth and an umbrella in his hands, the perpetually irresolute character proved the unlikely and often unwitting catalyst behind Tati's ambitious gags.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/biography.asp?ctr=654333 (590 words)

	Mon Oncle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The film stars Tati as his character Monsieur Hulot that he had devised for Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot in 1953.
		There is a huge contrast between the social (and sexual) interactions of the old life and the isolated houses of the new life, where people are aloof.
		Yet even at the factory this is only a facade put on for the management, and by the end of the film, Mounsieur Arpel has taken on some of the rôle of Tati's character even though he has banished Monsieur Hulot to the provinces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mon_Oncle (428 words)

	Mon Oncle (1958) : Directed by Jacques Tati, reviewed by Nick Burton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The one comic who did make great silent-styed comedy though, was Jacques Tati, a fierce original who made brilliantly funny films in the style of silents, but with a contemporary sensibility that showed a perceptive and healthy disdain for progress that rings much truer than anything by Chaplin.
		Tati's masterpiece is his 1958 Mon Oncle, his first color film, and his second as Mr.
		Tati would play Hulot twice more - in the amazing Playtime and Traffic - but this is the Hulot film that best combines his relaxed style of physical comedy so apparent in Holiday with the more cerebral concerns of Playtime.
	www.pifmagazine.com /SID/738 (446 words)

	Jacques Tati
		My first encounter with Jacques Tati's films, like my first encounter with Chris Marker's, happened relatively recently, and like with that other great French filmmaker, the shock and joyful surprise of the discovery was so strong as to make me wonder how it could have been that I'd remained ignorant of him for so long.
		Unfortunately for anyone studying the life of Jacques Tati, for whom the absurdity of life, the leisure of the upper and middle classes, and the wonderful eccentricity of every kind of person, remained his chief source of inspiration throughout his career as a filmmaker, such links cannot be avoided.
		That sort of international intrigue, sweeping romance, tragedy, and sheer convoluted storytelling, is by and large missing from the years Jacques Tati spent on the planet, and from his art: as magnificent and beautiful as his films are, they maintain a modest, gentlemanly tone.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/tati.html (2543 words)

	Mon Oncle on DVD
		Tati the director contrasts (tradition) M. Hulot, single, unemployed and living in a quaint, slow-paced French quarter with (modernity) the Arpel family, Hulot's sister, her husband and their young son, Gerald, who live in the newest section of town.
		Tati shares a unique affinity with the early silent comedians, especially Buster Keaton, though there are as many differences as similarities between them.
		Throughout, Tati contrasts the cold colors and industrial sounds of the Arpel’s and the Plastac factory to the warm, earth tone colors, traditional French music, and human sounds of the old quarter.
	www.horschamp.qc.ca /new_offscreen/mon_oncle.html (1318 words)

	Images - Jacques Tati: M. Hulot's Holiday and Mon Oncle
		Tati returns to this theme in an expanded and much darker form in Mon Oncle, in which the central family lives in an ultra-modernized home.
		Tati reportedly practiced his comic gags in front of children and animals.
		Tati took particular pride in the use of sound effects, which is somewhat surprising because he had his start in silent films, and before that, in live theater.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue10/reviews/tati/text.htm (1225 words)

	Jacques Tati: Last Bastion of Innocence
		Tati's films are cantered on the character of Hulot, his characteristic off-cantered gait leading him on.
		But Tati does not intellectualize his themes, thus preserving the freshness and innocence that is such a staple of his films.
		Tati alludes to life as a carousel, as a maze of automobiles becomes caught in a European circular boulevard.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/05/37/tati.html (5938 words)

	French Directors - Jacques Tati
		Jacques Tati's second feature introduces M. Hulot (Tati), a genial, eccentric, middle-class French everyman whose vacation at a seaside French resort in Brittany produces one minor catastrophe after another.
		Tati's intricate juxtaposing of mime and slapstick is so refined, pure and expressive, there's an extraordinary pain, passion and tenderness that produces laughter and heartbreak.
		Jacques Tati's fifth and final feature, a laugh-filled look at modern society and the automobile, captures the absurdities of human behavior on the street and behind the wheel.
	www.multilingualbooks.com /foreignvids-fren-tati.html (588 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - M. Hulot's Holiday -- Jacques Tati - DVD - Black & White / Mono
		Writer-director Jacques Tati's comic masterpiece is an understated, eloquent throwback to the days of silent movies, and his amiable protagonist bears comparison to the gently humorous characters portrayed by Buster Keaton and other silent-screen funnymen.
		Monsieur Hulot (Tati) is a mild-mannered bachelor who spends his summer holidays at a small Breton seaside resort where, during his latest visit, he inadvertently triggers a series of mishaps.
		Tati (Actor, Director) is a visual comedy genius who generates more laughter per scene than any movie I've seen.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?btob=Y&wrk=3912359 (541 words)

	DVD Savant Review: M. Hulot's Holiday, Mon Oncle, Playtime
		Now considered something of a national treasure in France, comedian-director Jacques Tati found it a natural thing to convert his music-hall routines first into short subjects, and then into a series of the most uncompromising and unique comedies ever made.
		Tati's Monsieur Hulot, a gangly, lumbering gentleman who is not so much slow-witted as perpetually perplexed by the crazy world around him, would not at first seem a particularly flexible character on which to build great comedies.
		At great expense, Tati had to regroup and have a standard lab figure out how to make the b&w prints that were eventually released.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s249tati.html (3070 words)

	DVD.net : Jacques Tati - Mr Hulot's Holiday - DVD Review
		It's to the immense credit of Jacques Tati that he seems to purposefully avoid making Hulot and his idiosyncracies the centre of events, in the way a Chaplin or Laurel and Hardy would be.
		Tati's original version apparently ran for 114 minutes, but Tati, always a restless perfectionist, apparently kept returning to this movie, editing it and making it tighter and tighter.
		It's very slight, but worth seeing for its view of the young Tati in the days when he was making his reputation as a music-hall physical-impersonator and mime.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=4925 (809 words)

	Amazon.com: Jacques Tati: His Life and Art: Books: David Bellos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tati made fun of the French love for le gadget: everything from Le Corbusier-style chaises longues to cars that had grills suitable for barbecuing.
		Jacques Tati is weak as a biography, insofar as Bellos doesn't get into Tati's head, but the book is strong when Bellos writes about Tati's films and his Kubrick-like madness in waiting for the perfect shot, perfect moment, perfect anything.
		Like Kubrick, Tati was an unforgiving perfectionist, and although he was a funnyman on film, Tati was quite moody and depressed during the shoots.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1860466516?v=glance (829 words)

	Harvard Film Archive: People We Like (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jacques Prévert’s screenplay fleshes out the demi-monde realm of actors, courtesans, cutthroats, and aristocrats with the naturalistic vitality of a Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac.
		Descended from the great silent film comedians (Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd), Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot - a recurring character in several of his movies - is a blithely clumsy troublemaker, an insouciant twit who leaves uproar in his wake without being aware of it.
		As director, Tati composes the film with a perfect eye and ear for the comic possibilities in his mellow environs: composition, lighting, minimal garbled dialogue, and odd sounds such as a duck call and a door repeatedly opening and shutting.
	www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/03_winter/daney.html (2868 words)

	Baltijas Perle. Festival Programme: Tati. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tati's first full-length film was ill accepted by both the producers and the cinemas (the film would not be screened for two years).
		Tati's character immediately - and that is an almost unprecedented case - becomes a legend.
		I said to myself that, having watched this film, anyone may pay a visit to the Aprels, as anyone knows that the button is on the left, that water will pour as a response to the ring of the bell, that the child's room is nearby.
	www.balticpearl.lv /en/tati.html (1118 words)

	Buy Jacques Tati Box Set (4 Disc) on DVD @ MovieStars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		JACQUES TATI IS ONE OF the great comic icons of French cinema, a Gallic equivalent of Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton.
		Jacques Tati plays the role of a mailman in a small French village in his first feature film.
		Jacques Tati’s eccentric hero Monsieur Hulot is let loose in the ultramodern home of his sister and in an antiseptic factory that manufactures plastic hose.
	www.moviestars.co.nz /DVDs/1470724.html (410 words)

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