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Jacques Tati ( French: [tati]; born Jacques Tatischeff, pronounced [tatiʃɛf]; 9 October 1907 – 5 November 1982) [ 1] was a French mime, filmmaker, actor and screenwriter. In an Entertainment Weekly poll of the Greatest Movie Directors, he was voted the 46th greatest of all time (out of 50), although he directed only six feature-length films.
ISBN. 9781860466519. Jacques Tati: His Life and Art is a biography of the French filmmaker, actor and comedian Jacques Tati by the English writer David Bellos. It covers Tati's life and work, including his family background, his influences, his differences compared to filmmakers such as Charles Chaplin, and how his combination of limited ...
Mon Oncle (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃ nɔ̃kl]; lit. ' My Uncle ') is a 1958 comedy film directed by Jacques Tati.The first of Tati's films to be released in colour, [c] Mon Oncle won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, [5] a Special Prize at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, [6] and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film, receiving more honours than ...
Monsieur Hulot [mə.sjø y.lo] is a character created and played by French comic Jacques Tati for a series of films in the 1950s through the early '70s, namely Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Mon Oncle (1958), Playtime (1967) and Trafic (1971). The character of Hulot (although played by another actor) also appears briefly in François ...
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot ( French: Les Vacances de M. Hulot; released as Monsieur Hulot's Holiday in the US) is a 1953 French comedy film starring and directed by Jacques Tati. It introduced the pipe-smoking, well-meaning but clumsy character of Monsieur Hulot, who appears in Tati's subsequent films, including Mon Oncle (1958), Playtime ...
Jacques Tati; Audrey Tautou; ... List of French people; List of German actors; References This page was last edited on 21 June 2024, at 01:13 (UTC). Text is ...
Jour de fête ( The Big Day) is a 1949 French comedy film starring Jacques Tati in his feature film directorial debut as an inept and easily distracted mailman in a backward French village. Shot largely in and around Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, where Tati had lived during the Occupation, most of the actors were unknown and villagers served as ...
The Illusionist ( French: L'Illusionniste) is a 2010 animated film written and directed by Sylvain Chomet. The film is based on an unproduced script written by French mime, director and actor Jacques Tati in 1956. Controversy surrounds Tati's motivation for the script, which was written as a personal letter to his estranged eldest daughter ...