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Subject: [Leica] [IMG] PAWs 1 - 5
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Sun May 18 05:13:32 2008
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Philippe,

I thought it might be playtime that you were reffering to. No, I don't think 
that I have ever seen it. Is the summary fair/accurate?

Peter

Philippe AMARD wrote:
> Peter,
> this is the one I was thiniking of : A MUST see BTW.
>  From wiki :
> Playtime <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playtime> (1967), shot in 70mm 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/70mm>, was the most daring and expensive 
> work of Tati's career; it took him nine years to complete and he was 
> forced to borrow heavily from his own resources to complete the picture. 
> For Playtime, Tati fabricated a set (dubbed 'Tativille') on the 
> outskirts of Paris that emulated an entire modern city. In the film, 
> Tati and a group of American tourists lose themselves in a futuristic 
> glass-and-steel Paris, where only human nature and a few hints of an 
> older France still emerge to breathe life into the city. Narratively, 
> Playtime had even less of a plot than his earlier films, and Tati 
> endeavored to make his characters, including Hulot, almost incidental to 
> his portrayal of a modernist and robotic Paris.
> 
> phx
> 
> 
> Peter Dzwig wrote:
> 
>> Philippe,
>>
>> Ah, the late M. Tati - <<Les vacances de M. Hulot>>(?), yes I first 
>> saw it in the late 60s, by which time it was already old (Wikipedia 
>> tells me 1953).
>>
>> There were other things happening in France then...of which it is of 
>> course the fortieth anniversary now.
>>
>> For listers who don't know him, Tati was a sort of Mr. Bean, I think 
>> that Rowan Atkinson admits that he was  his inspiration. But 
>> underneath the slaptick there was a certain amount of social and 
>> political commentary. Tati got nominated for the Oscar for best 
>> screenplay for it. Check out:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Tati
>>
>> I must say I hadn't thought of it as Tati-esque, but I can see it now 
>> that you point it out.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> Philippe AMARD wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Peter Dzwig wrote:
>>>
>>>> Philippe,
>>>>
>>>> Philippe AMARD wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Nice series - Brussels looks as if it had been taken 50 years ago , 
>>>>> with an idea of advertising the advantages of urban life ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Or today, but  advertising the disadvantages!
>>>>
>>> Or anticipating on them - Jacques Tati - have you ever seen his 
>>> movies ? This is what came to my mind
>>> phx
>>>
>>>
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