watched this with his cyrus last night. didn't think he would make it all the way, but he dug it. he's 10.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 16:19 (eight years ago) link
My two boys, 6 and 3, totally ate up Mr Hulot's Holiday, even though it's black and white and from the stone ages
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 17:07 (eight years ago) link
yeah i think there's enough of a curiosity factor as in: what the hell are they/he doing???? and also what the hell is gonna happen next?
cyrus loved the buster keaton movies we watched a couple of years ago. he will groan if i say i'm gonna watch an old movie sometimes. but he still says how much he loved the keaton movie "with the cannibals".
NOT a chaplin fan though. barely made it 10 minutes into a few of those.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 17:17 (eight years ago) link
Which ones?
― Evan, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 17:18 (eight years ago) link
"yeah i think there's enough of a curiosity factor as in: what the hell are they/he doing???? and also what the hell is gonna happen next?"
Yeah, it's the same kind of fun as looking at all the details in a Where's Waldo, just more in sequence and a bit more zoomed in.
― Evan, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
I ask in regards to Chaplin because I feel like a kid with any tolerance for silent comedy would at least love Modern Times?
― Evan, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 17:21 (eight years ago) link
...which is, really, not silent
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
Well sure, but it's still mostly silent and behaves like a silent film.
― Evan, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link
but at the same time the passage of time is really clearly defined throughout, like when day turns to night etc
yeah, he is very very concerned with duration, but also with routine. so he's very careful about how the passage of time is depicted in his films. "playtime" is a really interesting instance of compression -- i don't think there's a single obvious ellipse in the film but we get a full day, a night, and the morning after in the space of about two hours.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 15 January 2016 05:44 (eight years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/5c/c1/54/5cc154cac27aa56c8307ad481160c15d.gif
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 21:10 (eight years ago) link
I was just thinking abt that scene yesterday
― police patrol felt the smell of smoke and found that goat burns (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 21:13 (eight years ago) link
what kind of a screen did you watch Play Time on, hon?
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 21:16 (eight years ago) link
(Evan, Modern Times has a music-and-effects track throughout! it hardly ever stops. people say silent when they mean 'dialogueless')
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 21:18 (eight years ago) link
xp it was like a smallish (36"?) widescreen TV, much too small. I spent most of the film daydreaming about how incredible it would be on a giant screen.
― police patrol felt the smell of smoke and found that goat burns (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, January 26, 2016 4:18 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I guess I've misremembered it! I should revisit.
― Evan, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 21:38 (eight years ago) link
there are even a few spoken words, and gibberish singing
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 21:54 (eight years ago) link
I did remember the few spoken word bits, but had totally forgotten about the gibberish singing scene.
― Evan, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link
Still my point was leaning more towards that I think a kid might easily enjoy Modern Times.
― Evan, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 21:59 (eight years ago) link
i once had an argument with someone who insisted that tati was "basically a silent filmmaker", an assertion he was incredible fond of but which is controverted by the first five seconds of "mr. hulot's holiday."
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 29 January 2016 22:24 (eight years ago) link
i'd agree with that, evan
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 January 2016 22:43 (eight years ago) link
i think i could listen to just the audio tracks of his movies on their own. such amazing sounds.
― scott seward, Friday, 29 January 2016 22:51 (eight years ago) link
yeah, they are basically elaborate (and fetching!) pieces of musique concrete.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 29 January 2016 23:52 (eight years ago) link
in fact, there's a collection, "tati sonorama," where the first CD is selections from his films' musical scores, and the second is basically raw chunks of the soundtracks -- music, sound effects, dialogue (such as it is), etc. i prefer the second CD!
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 29 January 2016 23:53 (eight years ago) link
you should get it while it's still vaguely affordable, since it's out of print: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00186VRJI/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_new_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=new&qid=&sr=
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 29 January 2016 23:54 (eight years ago) link
On last night's Carson rerun on Antenna, one of the main guests was Chevy Chase (this was in '79), and he singled out Tati for extensive praise when asked by Johnny about who made him laugh.
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 24 October 2016 23:17 (seven years ago) link
You should repost that on his defend the indefensible thread.
― Madame Bob George (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 October 2016 23:36 (seven years ago) link
My dad loved Jacques Tati, but my dad was a weird Francophile.
― Millions of species Faye Dunaway (Tom D.), Monday, 24 October 2016 23:40 (seven years ago) link
Playtime was incredible. Trafic wasn't quite Playtime, but it was still pretty great
― Dan S, Thursday, 11 October 2018 01:00 (five years ago) link
I think my second favorite Tati film after Playtime though is Mon Oncle
― Dan S, Thursday, 11 October 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
Boy, my students, to my surprise, took to Playtime yesterday. It took them a while to let its rhythms work on them, though.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
Why surprise?
― If I were a POLL I’d be Zinging (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 12:06 (four years ago) link
Long, French, no close-ups, made before May 2019.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 12:42 (four years ago) link
and I assume the screen wasn't mammoth, which is a disadvantage
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link
I've got an auditorium, so the projector screen is wall-sized.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
oh that's good
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
saw M Hulot's Holiday for the first(!) time the other night. loved it. maybe my favorite type of movie, just gently whimsical and absurd, a repetitive jazz score which plays off the environs perfectly, a gently sad ending as he pauses and then just decides to get in his car and head off.
i was blown away by the fact that much of the boat/shark gag was filmed in 1978(!!)
― omar little, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 19:17 (eight months ago) link
Had no idea there were two versions! I guess that scene is a Jaws reference then?
― abandoned luncheonmeat (Matt #2), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 19:24 (eight months ago) link
the scene i can't get enough of is when he's painting his boat and the can of paint keeps floating around to the other side of the boat and he never even clocks it's moved but somehow always puts his paintbrush down exactly where it's floated to in order to load up with more paint, just the best
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 21:15 (eight months ago) link