Jacques Tati – Stream On Demand

Francois Truffaut’s ‘Bed and Board’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Comedy, Criterion Channel, DVD, French New Wave, International Classics, SVOD 03/22/2022 Sean Axmaker

Jean-Pierre Leaud is Antoine Doinel in the fourth film in Truffaut’s quasi-autobiographical cycle of comedies.

Sylvain Chomet's animated film of a Jacques Tati script

‘The Illusionist’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Animation, Blu-ray, Comedy, Criterion Channel, DVD, family friendly, International Cinema, movies about theater, SVOD 11/21/2020 Sean Axmaker

With The Illusionist (France, 2010), animator Sylvain Chomet (of the delirious The Triplets of Belleville) transforms an unproduced script by they great French auteur Jacques Tati (Mon Oncle) into a tender tale of a French magician and a Scottish girl in the theater-folk society of London as the old world of stage performance gives way […]

Odette Joyeux and Jacques Tati in the romantic ghost story by Claude Autant-Lara

DVD: ‘Claude Autant-Lara: Four Romantic Escapes from Occupied France’ on Eclipse

Comedy, Criterion, DVD, DVD only, Eclipse Series, fantasy 01/28/2018 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

Claude Autant-Lara: Four Romantic Escapes from Occupied France (Eclipse, DVD) Confession time: I had never seen a film by French director Claude Autant-Lara before this set and frankly had no concept of his reputation beyond the distaste that the critics-turned-filmmakers of the La Nouvelle Vague held for his work. He was the tradition of quality […]

Jacques Tati directs, writes, and stars in this sublime comedy from France.

‘Playtime’ – Jacques Tati’s comic masterpiece on Criterion Channel and free on Kanopy

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, Free, International Classics, Kanopy 09/04/2017 Sean Axmaker

Tati’s comic symphony of a city is a loving and funny love letter to Paris directed with the grace of a ballet.