French filmmaker Jacques Tati went bankrupt while creating 'Playtime,' but years later, it ended up becoming his magnum opus.

If you have a chance, don't walk but run to Lincoln Center to see Jacques Tati's Playtime at the Walter Reade Theater. There's a restored 70mm print (the only French film to be made in 70 mm), and ...

Follow filmmaker Jacques Tati’s journey to the heights of cinema history. Filmmaker Jacques Tati bet all he had on his fourth feature “Playtime,” a mammoth film that prematurely ended the career of a ...

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About the only thing Jacques Tati’s “Playtime” and JR and Agnes Varda’s “Faces Places” have in common is that they are both French — and wonderful. The two films make a strange pairing, but ...

Everybody who´s anybody crowded into the Palais des Festival for yesterday´s screening of Jacques Tati´s most popular film but also his most critically underestimated, Playtime. Michel Piccoli climbed ...