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Why stop there with the Tati images? LIFE Magazine has hosted on Google a wonderful series of photos of Jacques Tati wandering around New York from a November 1958 issue. The photos are a sort of reverse Play Time, with Tati, dressed in character as Monsieur Hulot, as a tourist in America, rather than guiding an American tourist in Paris. Remarkably, some of the images of the urban landscape are strikingly similar to moments in Play Time, which wasn't released until nine years later.

The complete set of photos is here.

Starting this month, La Cinémathèque française in Paris is doing a retrospective and festival devoted to my favorite director, Jacques Tati. I really wish I could be there for it, cause there's absolutely nothing better than seeing Tati in a theatre. In his case, I don't think it's just snobbery to say that his films can only truly be seen on a big screen.

But what really makes me smile is just how charming the splash animation and overall design for the Cinémathèque's Tati site is.

This site is similarly lovely - apparently they've reconstructed a set from Jour de Fête? Wonderful.

Oh, and one more. Here's the beautiful design for the recently released Criterion DVD of Tati's Trafic: