Cameron Olsen has a boundless passion for the art of cinema, and loves nothing more than to closely examine the great works thereof. He has a bachelor’s degree in film from the University of Utah, and ...

Le petit Gérard aime passer du temps avec son oncle, M. Hulot, un personnage rêveur et bohème qui habite un quartier populaire et joyeux de la banlieue parisienne. Ses parents, M. et Mme Arpel, ...

Somewhat long for a comedy, Jacques Tati's film has inventiveness, gags, warmth and a 'poetic' approach to satire. Film took two years to make. Tati has built it via comic juxtaposition of two ways of ...

The two films feature a hero out of joint with his times. Curiously, Mon oncle, with a cacophony of buzzers and other technological sounds, a capricious electric fountain and a dangerous robot-driven ...

A l'occasion de la rétrospective consacrée au cinéaste Jacques Tati à la Cinémathèque française, la célèbre maison imaginée par le cinéaste pour son film « Mon oncle » en 1956, pose ses fondations au ...

In Paris, in May, I visited the Cinémathèque Française’s exhibition devoted to Jacques Tati. The partitions of the upstairs galleries had been removed to allow for unusually open spaces, which were ...

The proliferation of parody films with the word “Movie” in their titles has cheapened the noble tradition of making fun of pop culture, but “Superhero Movie” proves that there are still a few -- if ...

Jacques Tati’s comedies are divisive, not because they contain sex or violence (they don’t), but because some viewers wonder what’s supposed to be funny. Emphasizing visuals over plot, dialogue and ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. Five years after M. Hulot’s Holiday Tatit came out with Mon Oncle. The latter film makes up for the fact that it lacks some of its ...