The Royal Ocean Film Society

Jacques Tati - Where to Find Visual Comedy (2016x12)

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If you watch a lot of film essays, then you've probably heard the complaint that visual comedy is something of a lost art nowadays, with most mainstream comedies opting instead for jokes done strictly through dialogue and improv. So, let's look back at one of cinema's greatest visual comedians and see where he found his visual comedy. Further Reading- Things Fall Together by David Cairns - http://bit.ly/2gbc4j4 Composing in Sound and Image by Jonathan Rosenbaum - http://bit.ly/2h70G7h