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Jacques Tati's "Playtime," from 1967, newly released in a dazzling remastering from Criterion, is the cinema's fiercest and funniest jeremiad against the rigid geometry of modern architecture and the utopian social engineering that it imposes.

By Richard Brody Jacques Tati's "Playtime," from 1967, newly released in a dazzling remastering from Criterion, is the cinema's fiercest and funniest jeremiad against the rigid geometry of modern architecture and the utopian social engineering that it imposes.

Jacques Tati's fascinating, flawed late film Playtime, from 1967, has been re-released: Monsieur Hulot is back, bumbling and adrift in a Paris that, on the surface, is gleamingly antiseptic in its modernity.

The setting of the movie is an utterly charmless London of glass towers and blank concrete plazas, the sort of generic luxury devolved from the International Style, which has fulfilled its moniker all too well and made cities around the world look alike (a tragicomic state of affairs that Jacques Tati already satirized in "Playtime," from 1967).

From birth, girls are automatically entitled to less; from playtime, to food, to education, girls can expect to always be entitled to less than their brothers.

The new report strongly warns parents against putting a TV in a very young child's room and advises them to be mindful of how much their own use of media is distracting from playtime.

Many days, her home is strewn with dress-up clothes, art supplies and other artifacts from playtime with her two small children, Benjamin, 6, and Laura, 3. "I let them get it messy because that's what it's here for," she said.

The 25-page booklet is designed to encourage schools to approach the question of the health of their pupils in a holistic manner, using every aspect of school life from playtime to meal times, sports lessons to science lessons to enforce the healthy lifestyle message.

So Paley instituted a rule: no student could exclude another child from playtime.

Because after Paley banned excluding anyone from playtime not only did the troubled children learn more effectively, but the group as a whole performed better.

Of course, PlayTime faces competition from Apple's Game Center solution for developers, which also provides a real-time gaming platform.