JACQUES TATI FESTIVAL:

MR. HULOT’S HOLIDAY
A film by Jacques Tati
1953, 88min, In French with English subtitles

MON OCLE
A film by Jacques Tati
1958, 116min, In French with English subtitles

PLAYTIME
A film by Jacques Tati
1967, 124min, In English, German & French with English subtitles

TRAFIC
A film by Jacques Tati
1971, 97min, In English, German & French with English subtitles

A true holiday treat, we are proud to present four newly restored feature films from French screenwriter, director, and actor Jacques Tati— Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, Playtime, Mon Oncle, and Traffic. One of cinema’s greatest comedians, Tati was also one of its most radical modernists. His experiments with sound, color, image, language, and technology are a fundamental, if often overlooked, bridge between the innovations of Buster Keaton and Max Linder in the silent era and those of his contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, Marguerite Duras, and Robert Bresson—and have had an unmistakable influence on the style and humor of many filmmakers today, from from Roy Andersson to Wes Anderson,