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Biography

Name: Jacques Tati
Variant Name: Jacques Tatischeff
Birth Date: October 9, 1908
Death Date: November 5, 1982
Place of Birth: Le Pecq, France
Place of Death: Paris, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: director, producer, screenwriter, actor

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Biography of Jacques Tati
1,310 words, approx. 4 pages
Jacques Tati (1908-1982), born Jacques Tatischeff, is recognized internationally as one of the twentieth-century film's most innovative and perceptive comic directors and actors. Tati's film personas--Francois the Postman in Jour de fete and the...


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Jacques Tati Information
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Jacques Tati (October 9 1907 – November 5 1982) was a noted French comedic filmmaker. He was born Jacques Tatischeff, the son of Russian father Georges-Emmanuel Tatischeff and Dutch mother Marcelle Claire Van Hoof, in Le Pecq, Yvelines, and died...


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Film - Dienst
Jacques Tati
09/27/2007: 420 words, approx. 1 pages
Eigentlich ist Monsieur Hulot, ähnlich wie "Stoneface" Keaton und der "Tramp" Charlie Chaplin, eine melancholische Figur: ein altmodischer Charakter, der in die "Modern Times" genauso wenig hineinpasst wie in seine chronisch zu kurzen Hosen. Jacques Tati, der den Mann mit Hut, Pfeife und leicht...
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Cineaste
Jacques Tati.(Review)
06/22/2000: 858 words, approx. 3 pages
by David Bellos. London: The Harvill Press, 1999. 382 pp., illus. Hardcover: [pouns]25. In some ways, this is a better biography of Jacques Tati than we had cause to expect from anyone--certainly a more cultivated one than the useful if relatively lowbrow...
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Review: `Mr. Bean' takes ho-hum holiday
8/20/2007: 628 words, approx. 2 pages
The idea of Mr. Bean _ the simpering, near-silent king of the British twits _ always seems a bit funnier than the reality.That's especially true with "Mr. Bean's Holiday," the character's second big-screen adventure, with Rowan Atkinson exuberantly goofing his way through sight gags that...
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The New York Observer
Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle: Mildly Amusing Martial-Arts Romp
4/17/2005: 1,979 words, approx. 7 pages
Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle, from a screenplay by Mr. Chow, Tsang Kan Cheong, Xin Huo and Chan Man Keung, is difficult for me to evaluate. I know next to nothing about Mr. Chow, even though he's been appearing in Hong Kong films since 1988,...
 


 

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