PlayTime
(DVD) 

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Contributors
Tati, Jacques, film director,
Maurice, Bernard, film producer.
Lagrange, Jacques, 1917-1995, screenwriter.
Buchwald, Art, screenwriter.
Dennek, Barbara, actor.
Published
[Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2014].
Format
DVD
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
ISBN
9781604659139, 1604659130
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. 
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Published
[Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2014].
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Language
French
ISBN
9781604659139, 1604659130

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, France Delahalle, 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 or International soundtrack which is primarily English; optional English subtitles.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Tati, J., Maurice, B., Lagrange, J., Buchwald, A., Dennek, B., Maiden, R., Rumilly, F., Delahalle, 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, 17th Edition (style guide)

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

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

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

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

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

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