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Play Time (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray Disc)
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Starring: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden
Director: Jacques Tati
Studio: Criterion Collection
Rating: Unrated
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: August 18, 2009
Running Time: 2 hrs. 4 mins.
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SYNOPSIS:
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 behind-the-scenes footage from the production
· Tati Story, a short biographical film
· "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 (Courtesy of Pacifica Radio Archives)
· 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: An essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jacques Tati's gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in the age of technology reached their creative apex with Playtime. For this monumental achievement, a nearly three-year-long, bank-breaking production, Tati again thrust 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 a modern age tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion.