Jacques Tati

The French have long been synonymous with tobacco use, with national icons like fashion designer Coco Chanel and filmmaker-comedian Jacques Tati usually seen puffing away on the streets of Paris.

France Restores Smoking To National History The Huffington Post 2011

The French have long been synonymous with tobacco use, with national icons like fashion designer Coco Chanel and filmmaker-comedian Jacques Tati usually seen puffing away...

France Restores Smoking To National History The Huffington Post 2011

At this distance—not just from France but from the France of the '60s—the film's social criticism seems quaint: Jean-Louis, his wife Suzanne Sandrine Kiberlain and their rigid friends and associates could be fugitives from a Jacques Tati sendup of bourgeois foibles.

Beware 'Ides of March'; Viva Maids of 'Women' Joe Morgenstern 2011

Such have been the challenges of gifted French filmmaker SYLVAIN CHOMET since he decided to saddle up an unproduced story by his beloved genius countryman, Jacques Tati who could pursue a two-wheeler like few others.

The 'Riffs Interview: 'ILLUSIONIST' filmmaker Sylvain Chomet delves into art, inspiration & Oscars Michael Cavna 2011

Mr. Tunbjörk b. 1956 has a Scandinavian sense of color and design, and a social sensibility similar to Jacques Tati's.

A Teacher, a Student and Three Books William Meyers 2011

Mr. Attlee's quest is dogged by so much bad luck that it starts to resemble a comedy of errors by way of a Jacques Tati movie.

Serious Moonlight Lee Sandlin 2011

ÂAnd so you've got Sasha Baron Cohen channeling classic Keystone slapstick and Jacques Tati too, the exquisite little human dramas in the train station a la Rear Window, Âand Hugo looking occasionally like Truffaut's Antoine Doinel of the 400 BlowsÂto name a few.

Monica Edinger: Martin Scorsese's Hugo: A Delight for Kids and Grownups Alike Monica Edinger 2011

It wasn't quite like Jacques Tati's postman, who found himself taking part in the Tour de France by accident.

Lionel Messi mesmerises in Madrid but football is the star | Richard Williams 2011

For a similar discourse about how modernist design makes a mockery of comfort and practicality, rent Jacques Tati's 'Mon Oncle'—also from 1958.

Silver-Screen Décor Jen Renzi 2011

Jacques Tati is still talking to us -- it's a dedication from Tati.

The 'Riffs Interview: 'ILLUSIONIST' filmmaker Sylvain Chomet delves into art, inspiration & Oscars Michael Cavna 2011