Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati (born Jacques Tatischeff; 9 October 1907 – 5 November 1982) was a French filmmaker, working both as a comedic actor and director. In a poll conducted by Entertainment Weekly of the Greatest Movie Directors Tati was voted the 46th greatest of all time. With only... Read full bio →
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The Sparks Brothers
Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band’s favorite band.
L'illusionniste
A French illusionist travels to Scotland to work. He meets a young woman in a small village. Their ensuing adventure in Edinburgh changes both their lives forever.
Parade
For his final film, Jacques Tati takes his camera to the circus, where the director himself serves as master of ceremonies.
Trafic
Mr. Hulot is the head designer of the Altra Automotive Co. His latest invention is a newfangled camper car loaded with outrageous extra features. Along with the company's manager and publicity model, Hulot sets out from Paris with the intention of debuting the car at the annual auto show in Amsterdam.
Playtime
Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in the age of technology reached their creative apex with Playtime, a lasting testament to a modern age tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion.
Mon oncle
With many idea rich comic situations French director Jacques Tati uses his poetic ways and knowledge of the discrepancy between heart and technique to tell a gentle business satiric tale that won him the Oscar for best foreign film in 1959.
Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot
Mr. Hulot’s Holiday is the classic film from French director Jacques Tati. His second film is a comedy and his most famous.
Jour de fête
A village postman with no sense of humour delivers his mail via bicycle on the day the travelling fair comes to town. He is disrupted by a short film about US speed and efficiency and the playful teasing of the village folk.
Le diable au corps
Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, Marthe Grangier, infirmière fiancée à un soldat tombe amoureuse de François Jaubert, un lycéen de 17 ans. Leur amour passionnel va leur causer quelques ennuis...
Sylvie et le fantôme
A teenager becomes fixated on the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her uncle oversees three men who pretend to be the ghost of the suitor to entertain her - but little do they know, the ghost of the suitor himself is roaming the castle halls......
L'école des facteurs
Jacques Tati plays a French postman adamant to prove he can be just as fast as American postmen at delivering mail.