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Playtime [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Jacques Tati.

Criterion Collection, c2006.

Technologie -- 20e siècle -- Films.

Technology -- 20th century -- Drama.

Technologie -- 20e siècle -- Films.

Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama.

Paris (France) -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 20e siècle -- Films

Criterion collection 112.

Criterion collection 729.

Video Difference legacy collection.

Video Difference legacy collection (Dalhousie)

9781604659054 (The Complete Jacques Tati 2014 set)

160465905X (The Complete Jacques Tati 2014 set)

Alternate title:

Play time [videorecording (DVD)]

Complete Jacques Tati. Playtime [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

2-disc special DVD ed.

2 videodiscs (124 min.) : Dolby digital stereo. sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 folded sheet insert.

A copy of this DVD was generously donated to Dalhousie University by DHX Media Ltd. as part of a shared Video Difference Collection between Dalhousie University and Halifax Public Libraries. PLEASE NOTE: As this DVD belongs to Dalhousie, it may be recalled for use in courses and therefore made temporarily unavailable for users of Halifax Public Libraries.

Videodisc release of the 1967 French motion picture.

Special features: Disc 1. Video introduction by Terry Jones ; selected scene commentary by film historian Philip Kemp ; alternate international soundtrack ; Disc 2. Au-delà de "Playtime", a short documentary with behind-the-scenes footage ; "Tati story" a short biographical film about Tati ; "Jacques Tati in Monsieur Hulot's work," a 1976 BBC Omnibus program featuring Tati ; "Tati at the San Francisco film festival" audio interview with Tati ; Video interview with script supervisor Sylvette Baudrot ; "Cours du soir" a 1967 short film written by and starring Tati ; PLUS: an essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum [in folded sheet insert].

Special features (2014 ed.): New 4K digital restoration ; introduction by actor and comedian Terry Jones ; three selected-scene commentaries, by film historian Philip Kemp, theater director Jérôme Deschamps, and Jacques Tati expert Stéphane Goudet ; Like Home, a 2013 visual essay on PlayTime by Goudet ; “Tativille,” a 1967 episode of the British television program Tempo International, featuring an interview with Tati from the set of PlayTime ; Beyond “PlayTime,” a short 2002 documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the production ; interview from 2006 with script supervisor Sylvette Baudrot ; audio interview with Tati from the U.S. debut of PlayTime at the 1972 San Francisco Film Festival ; alternate English-language soundtrack ; new English subtitle translation.

Please note: Some copies are the 2014 editions originally packaged as part of the Complete Jacques Tati set. See holdings.

1.85:1 aspect ratio. Enhanced for 16:9 widescreen TVs.

A France-Italy co-production.

In French with optional English subtitles.

Disc 1. The film -- Disc 2. The supplements.

Janus Films ; Les Films de Mon Oncle, Jérôme Deschamps, Macha Makeieff présentent un film de Jacques Tati ; une production Specta, Bernard Maurice ; scénario original de Jacques Tati ; avec la collaboration artistique de Jacques Lagrange ; dialogue anglais de Art Buchwald ; directeur de la photographie, Jean Badal, Andréas Winding.

Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Georges Montant, France Rumilly, Reinhart Kolldehoff, André Fouché, Billy Kearns, Yves Barsacq and Nicole Ray with Rita Maïden, France Delahalle, Valérie Camille, Alice Field, Laure Paillette, Colette Proust, John Abbey, Michel Francini, François Viaur and Marc Monjou.

"Jacques Tati's gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in the age of modern technology reached their creative apex with Playtime. For this monumental achievement, a nearly three-year-long, bank-breaking production, Tati again thrush the endearingly clumsy, resolutely old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot, along with a host of other lost souls, into a bafflingly modernist Paris. With every inch of its superwide frame crammed with hilarity and inventiveness, Playtime is a lasting testament to an age tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion."--Container.

Satirical films.

Films français.

Films comiques.

Films satiriques.

Dennek, Barbara.

Montant, Georges.

Rumilly, France.

Kolldehoff, Reinhard, 1914-1995.

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