Playtime [2-Disc,Special Edition]

DVD - APPROX. 124 MINS. - 1967 - US Rating: NR

Main feature:

Release Sep 5, 2006
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio French: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles English
Studio Criterion/Voyager
Year 1967
Genre Drama

Special features:

  • All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
  • Video introduction by writer, director, and performer Terry Jones
  • Selected scene commentary by film historian Philip Kemp
  • Au-delà de "Playtime," a short documentary featuring archival behind-the-scenes footage from the set
  • Tati Story, a short biographical film about Tati
  • “Jacques Tati in Monsieur Hulot’s Work,” a 1976 BBC Omnibus program featuring Tati
  • Rare audio interview with Tati from the U.S. debut of Playtime at the 1972 San Francisco International Film Festival
  • Video interview with script supervisor Sylvette Baudrot
  • Cours du soir, a 1967 short film written by and starring Tati
  • Alternate international soundtrack
  • New and improved English subtitle translation
  • PLUS: A new essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Synopsis:



Jacques Tati, the choreographer of the charming, comical ballet that is Playtime, casts the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot as the principal character wandering through modernist Paris. Amid the babble of English, French and German tourists, Hulot tries to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the confusion of the encroaching age of technology.

Cast and Crew:

Criterion/Voyager presents
Rita MaidenNicole RayFrance RumillyJacques TatiValerie CamilleFrance DelahalleBarbara DennekErika DentzlerYvette Ducreux"Playtime"
produced byJohanna Schiller
produced byKaren Stetler
directed byJacques Tati
Production Year: 1967

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