i keep bumping into jaques tati. a friend, noelani, mentioned him to me first last year and then over the last few days ive been looking and looking for some of his movies. the helsinki library system has some, but only with finnish (and other nordic languages) subtitles (the films are in french). so ive reserved a few of them regardless. basic finnish and basic french should do the job. the orion cinema here in helsinki is showing playtime this sunday. so i’ll go check that out (again using the french/finnish combo).

also: playtime wraps up today in new york [gothamist: jacques tati’s playtime today].