PlayTime /

A nearly wordless comedy about confusion in an age of high technology.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Playtime (Motion picture)
Other Authors:	Tati, Jacques (Screenwriter, Actor), Lagrange, Jacques, 1917- (Screenwriter), Buchwald, Art (Screenwriter), Dennek, Barbara (Actor), Maiden, Rita (Actor), Rumilly, France (Actor), Camille, Velerie (Actor), Dentzler, Erika (Actor), Lecomte, Jacqueline (Actor), Field, Alice, 1903-1969 (Actor), Paillette, Laure, 1906- (Actor), Proust, Colette (Actor), France, Ketty (Actor), Kearns, Billy (Actor), Barsacq, Yves (Actor), Fouché, André (Actor), Montant, Georges (Actor), Abbey, John, 1935- (Actor), Kolldehoff, Reinhard, 1914-1995 (Actor), Francini, Michel (Actor), Viaur, François, 1930-2002 (Actor), Monjou, Marc (Actor), Bourbon, Billy (Actor), Badal, Jean, 1927- (director of photography.), Winding, Andréas, 1928-1977 (director of photography.), Cottin, Jacques (Costume designer), Pollicand, Gérard (Film editor), Lemarque, Francis (composer (expression)), Stein, Dave (composer (expression)), Campbell, James, 1932-2010 (composer (expression)), Rauber, François (Conductor, arranger of music,), Kemp, Philip (Commentator), Goudet, Stéphane (Commentator, Screenwriter), Deschamps, Jérôme (Commentator), Hodges, Mike (interviewer (expression)), Baudrot, Sylvette, 1928- (interviewee (expression))
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	French
Language Notes:	French dialogue; English subtitles.
Published:	[Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]
Edition:	Two-DVD special edition.
Series:	Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 112. Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 729.
Subjects:	Hulot, Monsieur (Fictitious character) > Drama. Paris (France) > Social life and customs > 20th century > Drama. Technology > 20th century > Drama. Foreign films. Motion pictures, French. Comedy films. Feature films. Fiction films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Description
Summary:	A nearly wordless comedy about confusion in an age of high technology.
Item Description:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1967. Special features: New 4K digital restoration; Introduction by actor and comedian Terry Jones. Disc 2: Selected-scene commentaries (by film historian Philip Kemp, Jacques Tati expert Stéphane Goudet, theater director Jérôme Deschamps); "Tativille" (a 1967 episode of the British television program Tempo international, featuring an interview with Tati from the set of PlayTime by filmmaker Mike Hodges); Beyond "PlayTime" (a short 2002 documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the production, written by Stéphane Goudet); Like home (a 2013 visual essay on PlayTime by Goudet); Sylvette Baudrot (interview from 2006 with script supervisor Sylvette Baudrot); Jacques Tati at the San Francisco Film Festival (audio interview with Tati from the U.S. debut of PlayTime at the 1972 San Francisco Film Festival); Alternate English-language soundtrack; New English subtitle translation.
Physical Description:	2 videodiscs (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 3.0 surround.
Production Credits:	Cinematography, Jean Badal, Andréas Winding ; production designer, Eugène Roman ; costume designer, Jacques Cottin ; editor, Gérard Pollicand ; original music by Francis Lemarque, theme "Take my hand" by Dave Stein, African themes by James Campbell ; orchestra arrangements and conductor, François Rauber.
ISBN:	9781604659054 160465905X 9781604659139 1604659130