Jacques Tati's short comedy about a bumbling postman on a bike is exclusively available on the Guardian Film website – watch it to see why the French director ranks up with Charlie Chaplin and Buster ...

If you told Jacques Tati that his flight was delayed, he'd say terrific – and settle down to watch what he considered "the best movie of the year": people passing by. Observation gave the director all ...

If the dawn of sound proved an abrupt and often impermeable curtain for the careers of silent-era comics, at least it proved pliable enough for an exemplary few performers and filmmakers of a later ...

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 ...

Was any comic as fixated on (mis)perception as Jacques Tati? “Sight gag” doesn’t begin to cover the worlds Tati designed—a seaside village, an ultramodernist house, a hall-of-mirrors city—and laced ...

“To please everyone,” according to France’s most singular comic film star, “you need a good story.” This explains why Jacques Tati never did and never will please everyone. He left conventional ...

Last week, on a whim, I set myself a task. I decided I would watch all the films of Jacques Tati. I’d only seen his Playtime in full, and parts of Mon Oncle. I had time on my hands, a fever having ...

Roger Ebert's pick for a Great Movie this week is Jacques Tati's Mon Oncle, and Gothamist is reminded how watching one of Tati's films is like taking a leisurely vacation (perhaps we're colored by Mr.

There is a scene in “Mon Oncle,” a 1958 comedy directed by French filmmaker Jacques Tati, where Monsieur Hulot, a Buster Keaton-like character played by Tati himself, visits his nephew at the ...

In an age that prizes acceleration – where cities grow upwards and outwards at record pace, and buildings are often erected with the logic of impermanence – it’s rare to encounter an architectural ...