E3 preview

LUDUS went to e3 yesterday and got to test out a bunch of games as well as peep new tech. Full download on the event in a few days....

Some highlights tee-kay:

1. DJ Hero
2. Indy Games (one by Ian Bogost)
3. Lego DS game
4. virtual reality tech

jacques tati's PLAY TIME

THURSDAY, june 4 at 7:30
in James Bridges Theater

PLAY TIME (1967)

124 min
directed by jacques tati
writers: tati, Jacques Lagrange
cast: tati, Barbara Dennek
co-sponsored with Melnitz Movies
70mm print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive
2002 restored version


LUDUS and Melnitz Movies are proud to present Jacques Tati’s masterpiece PLAYTIME, screened in its original and stunning 70mm format. Tati’s comedy about confusion in the age of technology provides one of the greatest gamelike viewing experiences. With its super large frame packed with inventiveness, the film gives viewers a dense perceptual play and an array of audiovisual gags, encouraging us to participate in a playtime of moviegoing.

[Film notes by Daniel Steinhart]


“A film from another planet.” --François Truffaut
"Perhaps the greatest film ever made." -Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER
"A peculiar, mysterious, magical film." -Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"With PLAYTIME's monumental decor and complex choreographed gags taking place simultaneously in a constantly mutating space, Tati explored the possibilities of 70mm as they had never been utilized before." -Elliot Stein, VILLAGE VOICE