So what are the best movies about cars? There’s the list of usual suspects, but here’s a wildcard pick: Jacques Tati’s 1971 ...

Jacques Tati's short comedy about a bumbling postman on a bike is exclusively available on the Guardian Film website – watch it to see why the French director ranks up with Charlie Chaplin and Buster ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A film director is the creative leader of a movie production and is responsible for all things like interpretation and management ...

If you told Jacques Tati that his flight was delayed, he'd say terrific – and settle down to watch what he considered "the best movie of the year": people passing by. Observation gave the director all ...

“To please everyone,” according to France’s most singular comic film star, “you need a good story.” This explains why Jacques Tati never did and never will please everyone. He left conventional ...

If the dawn of sound proved an abrupt and often impermeable curtain for the careers of silent-era comics, at least it proved pliable enough for an exemplary few performers and filmmakers of a later ...

Was any comic as fixated on (mis)perception as Jacques Tati? “Sight gag” doesn’t begin to cover the worlds Tati designed—a seaside village, an ultramodernist house, a hall-of-mirrors city—and laced ...

Last week, on a whim, I set myself a task. I decided I would watch all the films of Jacques Tati. I’d only seen his Playtime in full, and parts of Mon Oncle. I had time on my hands, a fever having ...

In an age that prizes acceleration – where cities grow upwards and outwards at record pace, and buildings are often erected with the logic of impermanence – it’s rare to encounter an architectural ...

A film director is the creative leader of a movie production and is responsible for all things like interpretation and management of the artistic aspect, but sometimes, they risk it all. French ...