LUDUS & Melnitz Movies presents: Play Time


FREE

Times
Thu Jun 4 at 7:30 PM
Cost
FREE
Venue
The James Bridges Theater (Melnitz 1409)
LUDUS & Melnitz Movies presents: Play Time

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PLAY TIME
Thurs, June 4 @ 7:30pm

In celebration of the end of the 2008-2009 season, Melnitz Movies and the LUDUS gaming group are proud to present Jacques Tati's masterpiece PLAYTIME (1967), screened in its original and stunning 70mm format. Tati’s comedy about confusion in the age of technology provides one of the greatest film viewing experiences ever. With its super large frame packed with inventiveness, the film gives viewers a dense perceptual play and an array of audiovisual gags, encouraging us to participate in a playtime of moviegoing.

“A film from another planet.” -François Truffaut
“Perhaps the greatest film ever made.” -Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER
“A peculiar, mysterious, magical film.” -Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES “With PLAYTIME’s monumental decor and complex choreographed gags taking place simultaneously in a constantly mutating space, Tati explored the possibilities of 70mm as they had never been utilized before.” -Elliot Stein, VILLAGE VOICE

DIRECTOR: Jacques Tati
WRITERS: Tati, Jacques Lagrange
CAST: Tati, Barbara Dennek
(Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive)
124 min


Published
Mon Apr 13, 2009 in Screening
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