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Summary:

The charming short films directed by Jacques Tati.

Table of Contents:

• On demande une brute = Brute wanted (1934, 25 min.) / scénario et dialogues de J. Tati ; mise en scène de Charles Barrois
• Gai dimanche! = Fun Sunday (1935, 22 min.) / scenario de Tati et Rhum ; mise en scène de Jacques Berr
• Soigne ton gauche = Keep your left up (1936, 14 min.) / Cady Films ; Fred Orain présente ; mise en scène de René Clément ; dialogue de Jean Marie Huard
• L'école des facteurs = School for postmen (1946, 16 min.) / Cady Films ; Fred Orain présente un sketch de Jacques Tati
• Cours du soir = Evening classes (1967, 29 min.) / Telecip présente une production Specta-Films ; réalisation, Nicolas Rybowski
• Dégustation maison = House specialty (1977, 14 min.) / La Verlaine & Co, A-G-C présentent ; by Sophie Tatischeff
• Forza Bastia 78; ou L'île en fête = Festive island (1978, 28 min.) / Son pour Son et Specta Films présentent ; un film de Jacques Tati ; réalisé par Jacques Tati et Sophie Tatischeff ; en partenariat avec La Collectivité Territoriale de Corse, Cinémathèque Régionale de Corse ; avec la participation de Gilbert Trigano et France 3 Corse ; et du Centre National de la Cinématographie ; begun by Tati and completed by Tatischeff.

Contributors:

Tati, Jacques , film director, actor

Barrois, Charles, 1890-1944 , film director

Rhum , screenwriter, actor

Berr, Jacques , film director

Orain, Fred , presenter, film producer

Clément, René, 1913-1996 , film director

Huard, Jean-Marie , screenwriter

Rybowski, Nicolas , film director

Tatischeff, Sophie , film director

Trigano, Gilbert , film producer

Pépée, Hélène, 1902-1990 , actor

Turgy, Raymond , actor

Clairval, Jean , actor

Labynit, Georges , actor

Maier, E. , actor

Gillet, M. , actor

Hennery, 1898-1956 , actor

Kwariany , actor

Martel, Max, 1882-1961 , actor

Robur, Louis , actor

Cliville , actor

Aurel, Jean, 1925-1996 , actor

Champel , actor

Van der Haegen , actor

Demange, Paul, 1901-1983 , actor

Lavanant, Dominique, 1944- , actor

Genia, Gilberte , actor

Landowski, Marcel, 1915-1999 , composer

Michelet, Michel, 1894-1995 , composer

Yatove, Jean , composer

Moreau, Marcel , editor of moving image work

Badal, Jean, 1927-2015 , production designer

Petit, Léo , composer

Gauduchon, Nicole , editor of moving image work

Goudet, Stéphane , film director

Quandt, James, 1956- , writer of supplementary textual content

Rosenbaum, Jonathan , writer of supplementary textual content

Ross, Kristin , writer of supplementary textual content

Cairns, David , writer of supplementary textual content

Studio Canal , film distributor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fds

Films de Mon Oncle (Firm) , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Cady-Films (Firm) , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Telecip S.F.P. , presenter, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pre

Specta Films , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Verlaine & Co , presenter, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pre

Associated General Contractors of America , presenter, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pre

Son pour Son , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Corsica (France) , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Cinémathèque Régionale de Corse , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

France 3 cinéma (Firm) , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Centre national de la cinématographie (France) , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Criterion Collection (Firm) , film distributor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fds

Languages:

French
English

Language Notes:

French dialogue ith optional English subtitles.

Included Works:

Brute wanted

Fun Sunday

Keep your left up

School for postmen

Evening classes

House specialty

Festive island

Related Series:

Complete Jacques Tati

Criterion collection; [volume] 729

Subjects:

Young men — France — Drama

Postal service — France — Employees — Drama

European Championship (Soccer tournament)

Postal service — Employees

Postal service

Young men.

France

Genres:

Motion pictures

Short films

Comedy films

Fiction films

Documentary films

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

French language films

Foreign language films

Drama

System Details:

DVD; NTSC, region 1; full screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby Digital.

Performers:

Cast: On demande une brute: Jacques Tati, Hélène Pepée, Le Clown Rhum, Raymond Turgy, Jean Clairval, Georges Labynit, E. Maïer, M. Gillet, Hennery, Kwariany. Gai dimanche: Rhum de Medrano, Jacques Tati. Soigne ton gauche: Jacques Tati, Max Martell, Robur, Cliville, J. Aurel, Champel, Van der Haegen. L'école des facteurs: Jacques Tati, Paul Demange. Cours du soir: Jacques Tati. Dégustation maison: Dominique Lavanant, Dede, Gilberte Genia.

Production Credits:

On demande une brute: muisc by Marcel Landowski. Gai dimanche: original music, Michel Levine. Soigne ton gauche: music by Jean Yatove. L'école des facteurs: editor, Marcel Moreau ; music by Jean Yatove. Cours du soir: production design, Jean Badal ; music, Léo Petit ; editor, Nicole Gauduchon.

General Notes:

Title from container.
Originally released as motion pictures between 1934 and 1978.
Special features: New 2K digital restorations of all seven shorts; Professor Goudet's lessons (a 2013 lecture program by Stéphane Goudet on Tati's cinema); Tati story (a 2002 short film on the life and career of director Jacques Tati by Tati expert Stéphane Goudet); New English subtitle translation. Booklet features essays by critics James Quandt, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kristin Ross, and David Cairns.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 148 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (62 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm).

Physical Characteristics:

4 3/4 in.

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; mono; Dolby Digital 1.0

Video Characteristics:

NTSC

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video; region 1

Call Numbers:

TAT 1934 DVD

ISBNs:

9781604659054 (set)
160465905X (set)

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 715515128414 (set)
Publisher Number, Criterion Collection: CC2402D (set)
Publisher Number, Criterion Collection: CC2402D-12

OCLC Numbers:

893127759