{"id":592,"date":"2008-11-03T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/?p=592"},"modified":"2011-04-23T15:52:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T20:52:22","slug":"cinematheque-mon-oncle-tati-1958","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/cinematheque-mon-oncle-tati-1958\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinematheque: Mon Oncle (Tati, 1958)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/a>This is my first Tati experience in a theatre, and more than most films that I have seen both on DVD and in a theatre, Mon Oncle<\/span> proves to be designed<\/span> to be seen in the highest resolution possible and with a large audience. There are details that I never even came close to noticing either time I saw it on DVD, and the laugh track of the audience becomes a Tati-esque element unto itself. In the same way that I am so aware of the fact that I am watching a film in a theatre when I watch a David Lynch film, watching this film I was well aware of the fact that I was in a dark room filled with complete strangers laughing at a wall. Tati dissects the humor in his film over and over again in a way that I have not seen in any other comedy, first showing a joke, then later showing a character learning from the joke, itself becoming a joke, and then other characters reacting to that character’s joke. It’s easy to say that I am overanalyzing Tati’s sense of humor. He is just a guy who shows his sense of humor on screen in a very simple way. It’s not that I think that Tati mulled over the humor in his films so meticulously that it ended up being so perfect, but I think that he was able to take what had been seen as funny in film and made a joke out of that, which gives his humor such a feeling of layering upon layer. Mon Oncle<\/span> is my second favorite Tati film, still worlds behind his epic Playtime<\/span>, my holy grail of films to see in a theatre.<\/p>\n

I do have to note that I was not happy that the Cinematheque Ontario showed this film with an English dub, instead of in French with subtitles. Many scenes that I usually think are funny were hurt by the dubbing, and it makes me wary of seeing Playtime in a theatre, thinking that they might show it with the awful “international” audio track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is my first Tati experience in a theatre, and more than most films that I have seen both on DVD and in a theatre, Mon Oncle proves to be designed to be seen in the highest resolution possible and with a large audience. There are details that I never even came close to noticing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3407,"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/3407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}