Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. I’m always glad when someone decides to show one of Jacques Tati’s films because Tati is a filmmaker—and comic—whose work I’ve ...
Cameron Olsen has a boundless passion for the art of cinema, and loves nothing more than to closely examine the great works thereof. He has a bachelor’s degree in film from the University of Utah, and ...
“Mon Oncle,” the 1958 film by Jacques Tati, is by far my favorite movie of all time; it inspires me on a regular basis. Tati was a comedic genius. His work references Western society’s obsession with ...
The two films feature a hero out of joint with his times. Curiously, Mon oncle, with a cacophony of buzzers and other technological sounds, a capricious electric fountain and a dangerous robot-driven ...
Monsieur Hulot is a character created and played by French comic Jacques Tati for a series of films in the 1950s and '60s, namely Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Mon Oncle (1958), Playtime ...
Happy belated 100th birthday to Jacques Tati, one of my absolute favorite filmmakers and screen presences, whose centennial was actually yesterday, when I was being pummeled by movies and didn't make ...
I am Benjamin Crabtree, and I am a Feature Writer for Collider. I am also the creator of CrabtreeCinema.com and cohost of the upcoming Celluloid Noise Podcast. Beyond writing and talking about cinema, ...
Jacques Tati’s comedies are divisive, not because they contain sex or violence (they don’t), but because some viewers wonder what’s supposed to be funny. Emphasizing visuals over plot, dialogue and ...
Somewhat long for a comedy, Jacques Tati's film has inventiveness, gags, warmth and a 'poetic' approach to satire. Film took two years to make. Tati has built it via comic juxtaposition of two ways of ...
Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. Five years after M. Hulot’s Holiday Tatit came out with Mon Oncle. The latter film makes up for the fact that it lacks some of its ...