The National Building Museum is proud to partner with the American Film Institute (AFI) Silver Theatre and Cultural Center to present a film series associated with the Musueum's exhibition Unbuilt Washington. Things to Come: The City Imagined on Film screens films that feature striking alternative visions of urban life.

Playtime
Saturday, March 3, 1:20 pm

Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in the age of technology reached their creative apex with PLAYTIME. For this monumental achievement, a nearly three-year-long, bank-breaking production, Tati again thrust the endearingly clumsy, resolutely old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot, along with a host of other lost souls, into a bafflingly modernist Paris (the film’s dedicated set of glass-walled buildings and roads, or “Tativille,” took five months to complete). With every inch of its super-wide frame crammed with hilarity and inventiveness, PLAYTIME is a lasting testament to a modern age tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion. [Note courtesy The Criterion Collection] DIR/SCR Jacques Tati; SCR Jacques Lagrange; PROD Bernard Marice. France/Italy, 1967, color, 120 min. NOT RATED

Ticket Information:
BUY TICKETS THROUGH AFI.com/Silver $8.50 AFI and NBM members | $11.50 General Admission | $9 Seniors (65+), Students (with valid ID), and Military | $7 Children (12 and under).  Tickets may also be purchased at the box office (opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day).  Please note that tickets are not available for purchase through the National Building Museum.

The AFI Silver Theatre is located at 8633 Colesville Road in Silver Spring, Maryland, Silver Spring Metro, Red Line.