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Les Films de Mon Oncle
Directed by: Jacques Tati
Featuring: Jacques Tati
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.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
Discs:
BD-50 (2 Discs)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.78:1
Audio Options:
French DTS-HD MA Surround 3.0
English DTS-HD MA Surround 2.0
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Introduction, Audio Commentary, Video Essay, Television Program, Documentary, Interview, Audio Interview, Short Film, Insert
- Introduction by actor and comedian Terry Jones
- Three selected-scene commentaries, by film historian Philip Kemp, theater director Jérôme Deschamps, and Jacques Tati expert Stéphane Goudet
- Like Home, a 2013 visual essay on PlayTime by Stéphane Goudet
- "Tativille" a 1967 episode of the British television program Tempo International, featuring an interview with Jacques Tati from the set of PlayTime
- Beyond "PlayTime," a short 2002 documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the production
- Interview from 2006 with script supervisor Sylvette Baudrot
- Audio interview with Jacques Tati from the U.S. debut of PlayTime at the 1972 San Francisco Film Festival
- Tati Story, a short biographical film about Tati
- "Jacques Tati in Monsieur Hulot's Work," a 1976 BBC Omnibus program featuring Jacques Tati
- Cours du soir, a 1967 short film written by and starring Tati
- Insert featuring an essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Restoration Information
Playtime
Restoration by:
L Immagine Ritrovata
Year: 2013
Scanned at: 6.5K Digital
Restored at: 4K Digital
Sources:
65mm Original camera negative
Release Notes on Restoration
PlayTime is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.78:1. On standard televisions, the image will appear letterboxed. Undertaken by Les Films de Mon Oncle with the support of Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, this 4K digital restoration was created from a 6.5K scan of the original 65mm negative, a 1967 internegative, and a 2002 interpositive at Arane-Gulliver in Clichy, France; the film was restored in 4K resolution at L'Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna, Italy. The 3.0 surround soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit at L.E. Diapason in Épinay-sur-Seine, France, from Tati's final 70mm 6-track mix.