Symphony Space (Venue Partner)
2537 Broadway
212.864.5400
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Trafic
- When
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Saturday July 31, 2010 (2:30pm)
Sunday Aug 15, 2010 (3pm)
Sunday Sep 5, 2010 (3pm)
- Where
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Directions: Subway: 1,2,3, B, C trains to 96th Street (two stops from Times Square on 2,3 trains). Bus: M104 up- or downtown to 94th Street; M96 crosstown to Broadway
- Price
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$12; Members $8; Seniors & Kids $10 Get two tickets per film for an entire year for just $100 with a Thalia Film Pass! (Limit of one screening per film.)
- Links
A disciple of Keaton and Chaplin and a precursor to Mr. Bean, Jacques Tati created his own, gently bumbling character, Monsieur Hulot. In Playtime and M. Hulot's Holiday, Tati plays the gauche and socially inept Hulot and with his trademark raincoat, umbrella and pipe, he is among the most memorable comic characters in cinema. There exist several recurrent themes in Tati's comedic work, most notably in Playtime and Trafic. They include Western society's obsession with material goods, particularly American-style consumerism, the pressure-cooker environment of modern society, the superficial relationships among France's various social classes, and the cold and often impractical nature of space-age technology and design. As the films are mostly silent with highly visual storytelling, so children can enjoy the films without needing to read subtitles.
