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City Lights Film Series
Explore the development of cinema through key 20th century masterworks. The series is co-sponsored by Indiana University’s Department of Communication and Culture. Thanks to Noelle Griffis, Danny Grinberg, Jason Qualls and Landon Palmer for curating the Spring 2013 program.
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Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed; nearly
wordless comedies about confusion in the age
of technology reached their creative apex with
Playtime. For this monumental achievement, a
nearly three-year-long, bank-breaking production,
Tati again thrust the endearingly clumsy,
resolutely old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot, along
with a host of other lost souls, into a bafflingly
modernist Paris. With every inch of its super-wide
frame crammed with hilarity and inventiveness,
Playtime is a lasting testament to a modern age
tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion. -The Criterion Collection (35mm presentation)
