Parade

[What A Disgrace]

Parade



Jacques Tati's last - and least known - film, Parade, sees his return to the boisterous music hall world in which he began his career as a mime artist in the 1930s. Ostensibly nothing more than a series of circus acts hosted by Tati and preformed for a family audience, Parade is in fact a brilliantly conceived spectacle which blurs all distinctions between performers and audience, accomplished acrobats and children at play. Offering gloriously funny visual gags that flow beautifully from one act to another - including several of his most famous pantomimes - Parade is the perfect stage for Tati's comic genius.

Extras
- Rare interview with Tati, filmed in London 1977 (20 minutes)
- Illustrated booklet with essays by Philip Kemp and Jonathan Rosenbaum, biography and credits.

[Awesome Welles]

Amazon UK has this coming on April 27.

Can Trafic be far behind, I wonder?

[tojoed]

Release date is now 24 June.

DVD Extras
Rare interview with Tati, filmed in London 1977 (20 mins)
Illustrated booklet with essays by Philip Kemp and Jonathan Rosenbaum.

[Peacock]

Very excited about this. Can't remember if it's been asked before but does the BFI own the rights to Trafic?

[Matango]

I've been a Tati fan for many, many years but I still find Parade a rather depressing spectacle. Most if not all of the Scandinavian circus acts are more impressive than Tati, who just seems to be going through the motions with his boxer, tennis player and other acts that we've seen on his early short films that he was doing since before M. Hulot was created.

[MichaelB]

Full specs announced:

Parade
A film by Jacques Tati

Released on DVD for the first time in the UK, Jacques Tati’s last – and least known – film Parade sees his return to the boisterous music hall world in which he began his career as a mime artist in the 1930s.

Ostensibly nothing more than a series of circus acts hosted by Tati and performed for a family audience, Parade is in fact a brilliantly conceived spectacle which blurs all distinctions between performers and audience, accomplished acrobats and children at play.

Offering gloriously funny visual gags that flow beautifully from one act to another – including several of his most famous pantomimes – Parade is the perfect stage for Tati’s comic genius.

Special features
• Previously unseen interview with Jacques Tati, filmed in London in 1977 (19 mins)
• Illustrated booklet with essays by Philip Kemp and Jonathan Rosenbaum; director biography and credits

Release date: 22 June 2009
RRP: £19.99 / cat. no. BFIVD808 / cert U
France / 1974 / colour / French language with English subtitles / 84 mins /
Ratio 1.33:1

[zone_resident]

Beaver

[antnield]

Bordwell on Parade on his blog. (Scroll down past the Alice discussion.)