A complete retrospective of one of cinema's greatest comedians and most radical modernists
A complete retrospective of one of cinema's greatest comedians and most radical modernists - the French screenwriter, director, and actor Jacques Tati - features newly struck, and in some cases gloriously restored, 35mm prints of his six feature films, including Playtime (1967) and the rarely screened Traffic (1971) and Parade (1974), along with three short sketch films. His experiments with sound, color, image, language, and technology are a fundamental, if often overlooked, bridge between the innovations of Buster Keaton and Max Linder in the silent era and those of his contemporaries and have had an unmistakable influence on the style and humor of many filmmakers today. Organized by Joshua Siegel, Associate Curator, Department of Film.