In Paris, in May, I visited the Cinémathèque Française’s exhibition devoted to Jacques Tati. The partitions of the upstairs galleries had been removed to allow for unusually open spaces, which were ...

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: With Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues on the horizon, we look back on that rarest of rare ...

“Mon Oncle,” the 1958 film by Jacques Tati, is by far my favorite movie of all time; it inspires me on a regular basis. Tati was a comedic genius. His work references Western society’s obsession with ...

Tati’s first film in color is an engaging attempt to involve his bumbling hero Hulot in the perils of contemporary life by letting him loose in a dreadful ultra-modern gadget-laden house. Wry sight ...

Jacques Tati, the French comedian, wrote and directed only five feature films, but he created in Monsieur Hulot one of the most lovable and eccentric clowns in the history of cinema. “Mon Oncle,” the ...