Jacques Tati bothering 'a woman' sleeping beside him on the train. September 1958.
Must be his wife, Micheline Winter.

Bert Haanstra & Jacques Tati

‘Portretten’ (2 april 1968) Dutch television show, NTS

The television show evolved around Tati, who was in Amsterdam to promote his movie Playtime. He did some mime improvisations at Studio Bellevue and donated his honorarium to a good cause.
Other guests were Bert Haanstra, Hetty Blok, Cora Canne Meijer, Rinus Ferdinandusse and Kees Brusse. Probably also with Conny Stuart.

Vladimir Putin wins Oscar for Best Director of a Foreign Country
https://newsthump.com/2025/03/03/vladimir-putin-wins-oscar-for-best-director-of-a-foreign-country/ #Oscars #Directors

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The day after #DavidLynch died, Portland-based journalist Katherine Cusumano drove up to Washington to visit the real #TwinPeaks.

In times of grief, what do we get from stepping into places depicted in art?

https://longreads.com/2025/01/30/real-twin-peaks-david-lynch/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Alfred Hitchcock, his terrier, Mr. Jenkins, and a Picasso, on a slow afternoon. Photographed by Peter Stackpole, 1939.

Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy

The Fate of Opposites
Word of Ingmar Bergman's death in Sweden, on July 30th (2007), had barely begun to register when the announcement was issued from Rome that Michelangelo Antonioni, too, had died, the same day. Bergman was 89; Antonioni, amazingly, was 94: their deaths were not unexpected, but the shock — of both, on the same day, given who they were — was real in a way that I imagined was no longer possible to believe in.... (Steve Shapiro)

Jacques Demy and Agnés Varda

Jacques Tati
(Le Pecq, 9 oct 1907 - Paris, 4 nov 1982)
Londres, automne, 1959.
(c) Les Films de Mon Oncle

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Agnès Varda.
Photo by Roberto Frankenberg, 2014.

World Cultural Leaders of the Twentieth Century by Jennifer Durham Bass, 2020

A handy two volume set that makes it easy to look up 450 worldwide cultural icons: #novelists, #poets, #playwrights, #painters, #sculptors, #architects, #dancers, #choreographers, #actors, #directors, #filmmakers, #singers, #composers, and #musicians.

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Francis Ford Coppola's latest film, "Megalopolis," has been pummelled by reviewers. But once upon a time, he made great films — in particular in the 1970s when he directed, in just seven years, "The Godfather," "The Conversation," "The Godfather Part II," and "Apocalypse Now." The Ringer's Miles Surrey makes the argument that this is the greatest four-movie streak in history, and breaks down the other filmmakers that might compete. Take a look at the article and tell us which of these directors you think comes out on top — specifically in this totally arbitrary and meaningless category of four consecutive great movies (due to the limitations of our poll, we have omitted some of the possible answers from the story; feel free to make your own suggestions in the comments).

https://flip.it/T0x.9g

"For me, cinema is not a slice of life but a piece of cake."

Born on this day 125 years ago, the mighty Alfred #Hitchcock

Mati Diop: 2024 Golden Bear for Best Film

"Mati Diop (born 22 June 1982) is a French-Senegalese filmmaker and actress who starred in the 2008 film 35 Shots of Rum."

"Our winner of the 2024 Golden Bear for Best Film, director Mati Diop with the statue for “Dahomey“, produced by Eve Robin, Judith Lou Lévy, and Mati Diop.!" Berlinale

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Chicago Palestine Film Festival
April 20th 2024

https://www.palestinefilmfest.com/

Got a chance to watch #WesAnderson's latest, Asteroid City. He's one of those #directors (along with either/both of the #Cohen brothers) that I will watch anything he creates, without knowing anything about it.

He's got a distinctive #visual #style that gives him away, but #AsteroidCity reinforces my hypothesis that the thing that truly is his signature is that every single character in his #movies is #insane, and none of them know it, about themselves or each other.