Cleopatra is an american movie from John Mankiewicz released in 1963 with Elisabeth Taylor in the main role. This 4 hours long sword-and-sandal movie recounts the tumultuous relationships between Cleopatra and Julius Caesar first, and then with Marc Antony. Cleopatra uses a model to run the battle from her ship. Cléopâtre est un film américain…
Il deserto di Tartari (The Desert of the Tartars) shot in 1976 by Valerio Zurlini is a French-German-Italian production. This film is an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Dino Buzzati. The script is very similar in topic and atmosphere to the novel. It benefits from a good casting and a soundtrack by Ennio Morricone.…
« A girl is trapped in the map and desperately needs your help to escape. Have you got what it takes to navigate her out of this dangerous photographic maze. The clock is ticking. » This is the pitch for an advertisment campain that was organized in 2011 by Mercedes around a interactive commercial produced by an…
In this third opus of Die Hard series, directed by John McTierman in 1995, John McClane is in New-York fighting terrorists. Two maps are shown in the movie. Dans le troisième opus de la série Die Hard, réalisé par John McTierman en 1995, John McClane est toujours aux prises avec des terroristes, mais à New…
The correct answer to Quiz # 1 is Poupoupidou, a 2011 movie by French director Gerald Hustache-Mathieu. The film tells the story of David Rousseau, a writer, who investigates the tragic and mysterious death of Candice Lecoeur, a young starlet of Mouthe in Jura (France), which sees herself as a reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe. On…
The artist Jeff Desom (interview) created an extraordinary new montage of Rear Windows, the movie from Hitchock, in an unique animated panorama. An amazing experience. L’artiste Jeff Desom (interview ici) propose un objet très inattendu : la mise à plat en un seul tableau panoramique animé de tous les plans du film de Hitchcock, Fenêtre…
As already mentioned here we contribute to organize at the Rencontres SIG La Lettre a Géocafé named Cinemaps and a game Géomémory. On this occasion, we are inaugurating a new kind of post: the Quiz. Periodically, we will propose a question about the topics of (e)space & fiction. It can concern old or forthcoming stuff.…
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