There is a scene in “Mon Oncle,” a 1958 comedy directed by French filmmaker Jacques Tati, where Monsieur Hulot, a Buster Keaton-like character played by Tati himself, visits his nephew at the ...

“To please everyone,” according to France’s most singular comic film star, “you need a good story.”This explains why Jacques Tati never did and never will please everyone. He left ...

French writer, director and comic actor Jacques Tati was one of the great personalities of world cinema. Although his major films were produced in the '50s and '60s, when the ...

The film’s producer sought permission from Tati’s daughter, Sophie Tatischeff, who was running her father’s estate. Chomet sent pictures and a set design of “Belleville,” and Tatischeff ...

Born on this day in 1907, Jacques Tati is a greatly missed voice in the world of filmmaking with his often nearly mute comedy and his ambitious visual style. To celebrate his work (alongside Criterion ...

Jacques Tati is among the eccentric visionaries of international ... His best films, including Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953), Mon Oncle (the Oscar winner for best foreign language film in 1959), ...

Magnificent Tati. 6/28/2024 | 59m 35s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Follow filmmaker Jacques Tati’s journey to the heights of cinema history. Filmmaker Jacques Tati bet all he had on his ...

In the spring of 2003 the animator Sylvain Chomet found himself on a train from Paris to the south of France, where his new film, “The Triplets of Belleville,” was to be shown at the Cannes ...

Jacques Tati is M. Hulot in "M. Hulot's Holiday" (1953).Janus/Criterion Collection In many parts of the world, Jacques Tati's bumbling character Monsieur Hulot is as beloved as Charles Chaplin's ...

French filmmaker and actor Jacques Tati always knew how to crack a good-mannered joke, and his films have stood the test of time extremely well. This special pr ...

MADRID -- Adding to its 5,000-title film catalog, Studiocanal has acquired worldwide rights beyond French theatrical and festivals to all Jacques Tati's movies.