PlayTime
(DVD) 

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Contributors
Tati, Jacques, film director
Maurice, Bernard, film producer.
Lagrange, Jacques, 1917- screenwriter.
Buchwald, Art, screenwriter.
Dennek, Barbara, actor.
Published
[Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]
Status
On Shelf
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Subjects

LC Subjects
Comedy films.
Feature films.
Hulot, Monsieur (Fictitious character) -- Drama.
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama.
Technology -- 20th century -- Drama.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

More Details

Format
DVD
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
French
ISBN
9781604659054, 160465905X, 9781604659139, 1604659130
UPC
715515128414

Notes

General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1967.
General Note
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.
Creation/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.
Participants/Performers
Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maïden, France Rumilly, Valérie Camille, Erika Dentzler, Nicole Ray, Yvette Ducreux, Nathalie Jem, Jacqueline Lecomte, Oliva Poli, Alice Field, Sophie Wennek, Evy Cavallaro, Laure Paillette, Colette Proust, Luce Bonifassy, Ketty France, Eliane Firmin-Didot, Billy Kearns, Tony Andal, Yves Barsacq, André Fouché, Georges Montant, Georges Faye, John Abbey, Reinhart Kolldehoff, Michel Francini, Grégoire Katz, Jack Gauthier, Henri Piccoli, Léon Doyen, François Viaur, Douglas Read, Bob Harley, Jacques Chauveau, Gilbert Reeb, Marc Monjou, Billy Bourbon.
Description
A nearly wordless comedy about confusion in an age of high technology.
System Details
DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 3.0 surround.
Language
French dialogue; English subtitles.

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Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (Style Guide)

Tati, J., Maurice, B., Lagrange, J., Buchwald, A., Dennek, B., Maiden, R., Rumilly, F., Camille, V., Dentzler, E., Lecomte, J., Field, A., Paillette, L., Proust, C., France, K., Kearns, B., Barsacq, Y., Fouché, A., Montant, G., Abbey, J., Kolldehoff, R., Francini, M., Viaur, F., Monjou, M., Bourbon, B., Badal, J., Winding, A., Roman, E., Cottin, J., Pollicand, G., Lemarque, F., Stein, D., Campbell, J., Rauber, F., Jones, T., Kemp, P., Goudet, S., Deschamps, J., Hodges, M., & Baudrot, S. (2014). PlayTime. (Two-DVD special edition). The Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 18th Edition (Style Guide)

Jacques, Tati et al.. 2014. PlayTime. The Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 18th Edition (Style Guide)

Jacques, Tati et al.. PlayTime. The Criterion Collection, 2014.

UCL Harvard Citation (Style Guide)

Tati, J., Maurice, B., Lagrange, J., Buchwald, A., Dennek, B., Maiden, R. and Rumilly, F. et al (2014). Playtime. Two-DVD special edn [Irvington, N.Y.]: The Criterion Collection.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (Style Guide)

Tati, Jacques,, et al. PlayTime. Two-DVD special edition, The Criterion Collection, 2014.

Note: Citations contain only title, author, edition, and publisher. Only UCL Harvard citations contain the year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of May 2025.

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