PlayTime

Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in an age of high technology reached their apotheosis with PLAYTIME. For this monumental achievement, a nearly three-year-long, bank-breaking production, Tati again thrust the lovably old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot, along with a host of other lost souls, into a baffling modern world, this time Paris. With every inch of its superwide frame crammed with hilarity and inventiveness, PLAYTIME is a lasting record of a modern era tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion.

• Jacques Tati: Things Fall TogetherDavid Cairns — Nov 4, 2014
• Jacques Tati, HistorianKristin Ross — Oct 30, 2014
• Jacques Tati: Composing in Sound and ImageJonathan Rosenbaum — Oct 28, 2014