If the dawn of sound proved an abrupt and often impermeable curtain for the careers of silent-era comics, at least it proved pliable enough for an exemplary few performers and filmmakers of a later ...

While France’s Jacques Tati is widely considered one of cinema’s most inventive directors, like many great artists, his audience took some time to collate. The initial release of perhaps his most ...

Was any comic as fixated on (mis)perception as Jacques Tati? “Sight gag” doesn’t begin to cover the worlds Tati designed—a seaside village, an ultramodernist house, a hall-of-mirrors city—and laced ...

In an age that prizes acceleration – where cities grow upwards and outwards at record pace, and buildings are often erected with the logic of impermanence – it’s rare to encounter an architectural ...

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 ...

Follow filmmaker Jacques Tati’s journey to the heights of cinema history. Filmmaker Jacques Tati bet all he had on his fourth feature “Playtime,” a mammoth film that prematurely ended the career of a ...

Looking for where to watch 'Ciné regards Jacques Tati' right from your couch? Tracking down where to stream, rent, buy, or watch where to watch this André S. Labarthe directed movie can be tricky so ...

The Guardian has exclusively debuted a rare early short from comedy maestro Jacques Tati, 1947’s “The School for Postmen.” As usual, the French auteur writes, directs and stars in this witty 16-minute ...

During the Occupation of France in World War II, Jacques Tati lived for a time in the sleepy village of Saint-Sévère-sur-Indre in the Centre-Val de Loire region, known to tourists for its imposing ...

Jacques Tati was a French director and actor who was renowned for his comic films portraying people in conflict with the modern world. He was born in 1907, an indifferent student who stood out in ...