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Jacques Tati was a French mime, filmmaker, actor and screenwriter. He is best known for portraying the character Monsieur Hulot in his films Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Mon Oncle (1958), Playtime (1967), and Trafic (1971). Playtime was ranked 23rd in the 2022 Sight and Sound critics' poll of the greatest films ever made.
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entertainment · French filmmaker and actor (1907–1982) · film actor · actor · film director · screenwriter · comedian · film producer · mime artist · television actor · director · satirist · also Jacques Tati, Jacques Tatischeff, Tati
Born 9 October 1907 · Died 5 November 1982 · Q51549
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The more officialdom and the more decorum there is about an organisation, the funnier it is.
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“illusionniste - which has now been made into an animation by Sylvain Chromet - as a message to the daughter he abandoned. It is believed that Jacques Tati wrote the screenplay for L”
“The more officialdom and the more decorum there is about an organisation, the funnier it is.”
“Playtime is the big leap, the big screen. I”
“What is interesting about him is that in his early films, he looked at the France of holidays, of something very light; but in Playtime, he took a look at the future. He is or he was a victim of the future because the film was a failure.”
ELLE: Hommage au cinéaste Jacques Tati
AlloCiné: Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot de Jacques Tati
Ouest-France: Quand Jacques Tati a fait de Monsieur Hulot un habitué de Saint-Marc-sur-Mer
The Guardian: Playtime: Jacques Tati’s masterpiece took cinema close to a video game
The Guardian: Playtime review – quirky gags and mimed mayhem as Tati comedy takes the stage
Télérama: Fipadoc 2022 : “Quand on a vu les films de Jacques Tati, on regarde la vie un peu différemment”
The Guardian: Playtime review – Jacques Tati’s late masterpiece
The Guardian: Jacques Tati’s Playtime: life-affirming comedy
The Film Stage: Jacques Tati Discusses His Career In 20-Minute Interview from 1977
FirstShowing.net: Watch: Jacques Tati's Masterpiece 'Playtime' 4K Restoration Trailer
Les Films de Mon Oncle became part of Vivendi, in partnership with StudioCanal, which now oversees international distribution of Jacques Tati's oeuvre, having released digitally restored versions of all his short and lon
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The Guardian: Jacques Tati's lost film reveals family's pain
Openly criticising the production's interpretation of Tati's intent for the script and explaining the family's understanding of its origins with respect to Tati having abandoned Schiel
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The Guardian: DVD Classic: The Jacques Tati Collection
Macha Makeïeff, the partner of Deschamps, designed and co-curated (along with Stephane Goudet) the exhibition "Jacques Tati, deux temps, trois mouvements" at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, and installed the full-sc
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Released album “Un comique de vocation”.
Released album “Sonorama !”.
Les Films de Mon Oncle completed the restoration of My Uncle, the English version of Mon Oncle
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L'Humanité: Jacques Tati ou l'enfance de l'art
Released album “Les musiques originales et les dialogues de Jacques Tati”.
To preserve, restore, and circulate her father's work
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The screenplay was handed over to Chomet by Tati's daughter, Sophie, two years before her death
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When Sophie Tatischeff made the acquaintance of Jean-Rene Failot, technical director of the Gulliver Arane, the only remaining large-format film laboratory in Europe
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After a year of meticulous work, Sophie, with the aid of film technician François Ede, was able for the first time to release a colour print of Jour de fête, as Tati had originally intended
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Died 1982-11-05.
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Tati began filming "Forza Bastia", a short documentary focusing on a football match between the Corsican team SC Bastia and the Dutch team PSV Eindhoven during the UEFA Cup Final, which he did not complete
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Awarded Honorary César (1977).
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Is more or less a filmed circus performance, featuring Tati's mime acts and other performers
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Tati made an advertisement for England's Lloyds Bank, in which he depicted a dehumanized bank of the future, with money dispensed by a computerized counter
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And placed Monsieur Hulot back at the centre of the action
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“Play Time [sic] is the big leap, the big screen. I”
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Awarded Jury Prize for Mon Oncle (1958).
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Jacques Tati had become fed up with Monsieur Hulot, his signature comic creation
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“Tati could easily have made lots of money with sequels featuring his comic character of the little rural mailman. He chose instead to wait for four years, and, after much reflection, he revised his formula completely. The result this time was an extraordinary masterpiece about which one can say, I think, that it is the most radical innovation in comic cinema since the Marx Brothers: I am referring, of course, to Les Vacances de M. Hulot.”
Was released internationally as an animated film, The Illusionist, in 2010
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Suffered a serious car accident that physically impaired his left hand
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Awarded Louis Delluc Prize for Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953).
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In the village of Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, where he had found refuge during the war
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Tati returned to Paris, and after a brief courtship, married Micheline Winter
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After a short engagement at the ABC, where Édith Piaf was headlining, Tati, having been shunned by his former colleagues at the Lido de Paris for his behaviour, left Paris with his friend Henri Marquet, and they settled
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When he performed at the gala for the newspaper Le Journal, celebrating the French victory in setting the transatlantic crossing record from Normandy
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At the age of 16, and his grandfather trained him as a picture framer in the family business
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Born 1907-10-09.
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Georges-Emmanuel Tatischeff married the Dutch-Italian Marcelle Claire van Hoof (died 1968)
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His mother brought him back to France; they settled on the estate of Le Pecq, near Saint-Germain-en-Laye, on the outskirts of Paris
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