Word: hulot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jacques Tati has made three previous excursions into the amuck world of M. Hulot, upon whose heron head rain down all manner of comic disasters. Mr. Hulot' s Holiday (1953), the first, still seems the best, the most genuinely poignant and inventively funny. Further installments - Mon Oncle (1958) and Playtime (1967), photo graphed in 70 mm. and yet to be released in the U.S. - have grown progressively more precious. Often the complexity of a Tati gag outweighs the punch line. In Traffic, it overwhelms it. Ingenuity, not wit, is the real point of the exercise, and laughter is strangled...
Yellow Submarine. The Beatles live, if only in cartoons. Orson Welles I. 4, 7:10, 10:20. With Mr. Hulot's Holiday, 5:30, 8:45. Until...