TITLE...........: PlayTime (1967) STARS...........: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden DIRECTOR........: Jacques Tati WRITERS.........: Jacques Tati, Jacques Lagrange, Art Buchwald GENRE...........: Comedy IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062136 RUNTIME.........: 2h 4mn SIZE............: 7.29 GB VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4) BITRATE.........: 8000 Kbps (2-pass) RESOLUTION......: 1920x1080 ASPECT RATIO....: 1.78:1 FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps AUDIO1..........: French E-AC3 3.0 320kbps AUDIO2..........: Commentary by film historian Philip Kemp
SUBTITLES.......: ENG, RUS SOURCE..........: Criterion 2014 Remastered/2009 Blu-ray, 2014 DVD ENCODE DATE.....: 2023-07-04

Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in an age of high technology reached their apotheosis with PlayTime. For this monumental achievement, a nearly three-year-long, bank-breaking production, Tati again thrust the lovably old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot, along with a host of other lost souls, into a baffling modern world, this time Paris. With every inch of its superwide frame crammed with hilarity and inventiveness, PlayTime is a lasting record of a modern era tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion.

Extras

• Introduction by writer, director, and performer Terry Jones. • Interview with script supervisor Sylvette Baudrot. • Selected scene commentary by Philip Kemp, Stephane Goudet & Jerome Deschamps • Jacques Tati in Monsieur Hulot’s Work, an episode of BBC Omnibus from 1976. • Beyond Playtime, a documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage. • Interview with Tati at the 1972 San Francisco International Film Festival. • Cours du soir, a 1967 short film written by and starring Tati. • Like Home, a visual essay by Tati expert Stephane Goudet. • Tativille, a 1967 episode of the UK television program Tempo International