Rocky, Yoda or The Little Prince are not the only fictional characters who have been materialized. Superman and Lois Lane have also their own materialization. Even if Metropolis, the city where Superman lives is fictional, a city in Illinois has the same name and beyond this resemblance, the city host… Superman and Lois Lane! Rocky, Yoda…
We announced here the Cinematheque Française exhibition from October 19, 2011 to January 29, 2012 about Metropolis, the Fritz Lang’s film . On this occasion, the new version of the film, restored in 2010, will be shown to the public. This version is 150 minutes long with the 30 minutes extra discovered in Buenos Aires in…
The Cinémathèque Française in Paris presents a new exhibition from the 19th October 2011 to the 20th January 2012. It is dedicated to Metropolis, Fritz Lang’s master work. This movie is famous for having influenced most of science-fiction films and has been considered as « the matrix of cities in the future ». Read also this post: …
A l’occasion du Libé des Géographes, ceux-ci listent 20 villes de fiction du monde entier (en fait du monde occidental) /\ In the French newsparer Liberation issue dedicated to the Festival de Géographie in Saint-Dié, geographers describe 20 fictional cities all over the world (mostly occidental).
Une visite de la base secrète de Batman dans Street View /\ A tour in the secret base of Batman
With the opening today of the World Football in Brazil, the sports news offers an opportunity to discuss a world famous movie: Brazil, a film made in 1985 by Terry Gilliam. Brazil has been seared on the kind of anticipation films, himself taking his legacy of previous genre films, including Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life…
« Immortel (Ad Vitam) » is a French sci-fi movie directed in 2004 by Enki Bilal, designer of world famous comics. It is one of three films directed by Enki Bilal, all directly inspired by his works, the atmosphere that emerges and their imaginary geographies. The stories all take place in a more or less distant future,…
Jacques Tati directed Playtime in 1967. It his one of the 6 full-length movies of Tati that are briefly presented on this site. Modern space has always been a question of Tati’s cinema. Playtime is one of his movie where he develops an actual spatial thought. Playtime est un film réalisé par Jacques Tati en…
(e)space & fiction 