Spécimen : Dans les commissariats de police, la carte est un élément courant, voire incontournable… et de fait, au cinéma, un accessoire de décors indispensable ! Dans le commissariat de Nice recréé dans Flic ou Voyou, on en compte pas moins de 3 ! Ici celle qui se trouve dans ce qui pourrait être un…
Spécimen : Dans les commissariats de police, la carte est un élément courant, voire incontournable… et de fait, au cinéma, un accessoire de décors indispensable ! Dans le commissariat de Nice recréé dans Flic ou Voyou, on en compte pas moins de 3 ! Ici celle qui se trouve dans le couloir du commissariat.
Spécimen : Dans les commissariats de police, la carte est un élément courant, voire incontournable… et de fait, au cinéma, un accessoire de décors indispensable ! Dans le commissariat de Nice recréé dans Flic ou Voyou, on en compte pas moins de 3 ! Voici celle qui se trouve dans le bureau du commissaire Grimaud…
Annual Rings (1968), œuvre de Dennis Oppeheim exposée au musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole (MAMC+) jusqu’au 8 avril a toute sa place dans la collection de (e)space & fiction. /\ Annual Rings (1968), a work of Dennis Oppeheim exhibited until April 8th at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Saint-Étienne Métropole (MAMC +) has to be in (e)space & fiction.
Découvrir la grande carte du pays du cinéma /\ Discover the Great Map of Movieland,
Spécimen: Le globe terrestre dans le hall central du Caire /\ The terrestrial globe in the main hall of the Cairos’s airport
Le planisphère des années cinquante dans les bureaux de la S.C.E.P. /\ World map of the fifties in S.C.E.P.’s office
Un très drôle spécimen sur l’usage d’une carte topographique dans Grand Froid de Gérard Pautonnier /\ A Very Funny Specimen about the Use of a Topographical Map in Grand Froid de Gérard Pautonnier
Specimen: leçon de géographie politique ou comment faire parler les cartes en toute… subjectivité ! /\ Politcal Géography Lesson or How to Interpret Maps in Tota … Subjectivity !
Le Parrain: 3e partie est un film réalisé par Francis Ford Coppola. Michael Corleone, parrain du Clan Corleone, souhaite prendre ses distances avec la Mafia et se concentrer sur des affaires légales. Pour se faire, il se rapproche de l’Église. /\ The Godfather: Part III is a 1990 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Michael Corleone, a Mafia kingpin, aims to distance himself from the Mafia and to concentrate on legal businesses. In order to do so, he approaches the Roman Catholic Church.
Les géodispositifs rencontrés dans l’épisode VI de la saga Star Wars /\ Spatial machineries in Star Wars Episode VI
Specimen : la France polluée s’affiche derrière le commissaire Guibout.
Un nouveau billet sur « La Grande Vadrouille », film bien connu mais dont la cartographie embarquée l’est moins /\ An extended version of a post about « La Grande Vadrouille », a famous movie (at least France) with several maps.
Les géodispositifs rencontrés dans l’épisode V de la saga Star Wars /\ The spatial machineries in Star Wars Episode V.
Les nombreux dispositifs spatiaux de La guerre des étoiles. Episode IV /\ The profuse spatial machineries in Starwars. Episode IV.
The war lover is an 1962 American film directed by Philip Leacock. The storie takes place during the Second World War, on an English air base. It focuses on captain Buzz Rickson’s personality (Steve McQueen), pilot of a B-17 called The Body, and his relationship with people and life. With his co-pilot, Lieutenant Ed Bolland (Robert Wagner),…
Megaforce is a 1982 american action film directed by Hal Needham. It is a real nanar, French expression for saying that a movie is so bad that it becomes rare. To make the pitch simple, it is the story of flying bikes (Megaforce, « a phantom army of super elite fighting men whose weapons are the…
Non ho sonno (Sleepless) is a 2001 Italian giallo film directed by Dario Argento. Seventeen years ago, in Turin, Italia, Giacomo’s mother was murdered. The alleged murderer was found dead and the investigation was closed. Unfortunately, a serial killer sows again terror in a same way, leaving small paper animal figurine by the side of bodies.…
Since 2013, the Facebook community Paname Urbex makes an inventory of filming locations in Paris, France. Actuals photographs and movies screenshots are matched up, often superimposed. This work is extended to albums covers, in particular those of the French singer Renaud. Note in USA Delta Bravo Urban Exploration Team have the same goal. Depuis 2013,…
La Classe américaine (American Class) also known as Le Grand Détournement is a 1993 French television film directed by Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) and Dominique Mézerette. It is exclusively made of excerpts of old Warner’s movies (plus one extract of the French TV series Maigret). All of them are combined and dubbed with new lines.…
The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 American science-fiction film directed by Robert Wise and based on the novel The Andromeda Strain published in 1969 by Michael Crichton. It tells the story of a four-day major American scientific crisis, in a very structured way. Many and various spatial machineries support the narration : split screen, text…
To define the geography of Westeros and Essos, several initiatives emerged in the form of web maps. It aims to show character’s journeys and also where take place the Game of thrones TV series and books. We list here some of them. Afin de mieux cerner la géographie des lieux et espaces dans lesquelles prennent…
Quand la Google car a parcouru Earl’s Court Road, à Londre, elle surpris le TARDIS, célèbre machine à voyager dans le temps et l’espace, aux allures de « Police Box », utilisée par le Doctor Who. /\ When the Google car mapped Short Earl’s Court Road, London, it caught the TARDIS, famous Doctor Who’s time machine and spacecraft, which looks like a Police Box.
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…
Wayne’s World and Wayne’s World 2 are 1992 and 1993 movies realized respectively by Penelope Spheeris and Stephen Surjik. The first one tells the adventures of Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers) and Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) who host a TV program from a cellar in Aurora, Illinois, USA. They attract an unreliable producer’s attention. Moreover, Wayne…
The Dictator’s Guns is a 1965 French aventure movie directed by Claude Sautet. Jacques Cournot (Lino Ventura) is requested to assess the Dragoon, Mrs Osborne’s yacht, in the Caribbean. When the ship is stolen, Cournot is given the mission to find it. During the search, Cournot uses several maps. L’Arme à gauche est un film…
Gizmodo.fr website reports a post on Roadtrippers which proposes a road trip for visiting some ‘cult’ locations of the Breaking Bad TV serie, near Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. The route is available on Roatrippers.com, website which uses the Google Map API. Le site Gizmodo. fr se fait l’écho qu’un article sur le site Roadtrippers proposant justement un…
Gizmodo.fr website reports AV Club team’s video, presenting various extracts of TV serie The Walking Dead , associated sequences with the places where they were shot, mainly in Atlanta and Senoia, Georgia, USA (spoiler alert !). It also reports a google map, which reports many locations where the action take place. Le site Gizmodo.fr rapporte…
Dirty Harry is a 1971 American crime film directed by Don Siegel. It’s the first in the Dirty Harry film series. San Franscico Police Department Inspector « Dirty » Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), opposes Scorpio, a serial killer (Andrew Robinson). We can find several spatial machineries in the movie : maps, plans, model. Moreover, we note many…
Abel Ferrara’s China Girl, released in 1987, is the Romeo and Juliette story (in the movie : Tino and Ty), transposed to the eighties and to the Chinatown and Little Italy communities in Manhattan. Transformation of space (here the city of New York) is marked by the division, but the fusion as well of the…
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