Also, let us not forget that Jacques Tati was justly known as the French Charlie Chaplin.

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The Illusionist, a French movie set in Edinburgh based on an unproduced script by the celebrated film-maker Jacques Tati, also makes the cut.

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The story concerns Tati himself, who is here presented under his birth name, Tatischeff, as a struggling magician whose bookings go from bad to worse in Paris and London until he gets to rural Scotland.

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" I have a hunch that he means the tough-minded Tati who made "Playtime" -- a difficult, seldom-seen experimental comedy that also starts with drum riffs on the soundtrack -- more than the gently whimsical Tati who puffed a pipe and toted a butterfly net in "Mr. Hulot's Holiday.

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In the two zones of action (they hardly count as stories), Tati plays Monsieur Hulot, a tall, spring-jointed, aging Everyman who goes to see a bureaucrat about a document, while a busload of American tourists blithely disembark in a Paris of iconic landmarks that they see only fleetingly as distant reflections in glass doors.

NEWYORKER: Playtime