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Steel and Glass

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I have written a little essay for Criterion’s magisterial Complete Jacques Tati box set, recommended as the ideal Christmas present for a discerning cinephile, if you have the means. But I have also made a video piece for Criterion’s website, along with editor Timo Langer and online editor Stephen Horne, to whom thanks are due.

You can view the thing free, gratis and for nothing, here. I’m quietly chuffed with it.

Also, look around at all the other nice goodies on offer. The magnificent box set can be grabbed at the link below.

The Complete Jacques Tati [Blu-ray]

This entry was posted on October 30, 2014 at 11:37 am and is filed under FILM with tags , , , . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Steel and Glass”

  1. David Ehrenstein Says:
    October 30, 2014 at 1:28 pm

    Marvelous. One of the most wonderful things about Playtime is the way Tati convert situations that ought to be seen as “disasters” into opportunities for human innovation. The door and its subsequent gags are one example of this.

  2. dcairns Says:
    October 30, 2014 at 1:32 pm

    True! And so the movie evolves bit by bit from a purgatory to a paradise.

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