La métamophoses des cloportes is a 1965 French crime movie directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre adapted from an Alphonse Boudard’s novel. Three gangsters, Edmond (Charles Aznavour), Arthur (Maurice Biraud) and Rouquemoute (Georges Géret)) plan to seize the content of a safe and ask for Alphonse’s help (Lino Ventura). Alphonse takes control of the operation … and …
Wolf Vostell is an eminent German artist, died in 1998 and considered as a pioneer of the Fluxus movement who questioned categories of the art and rejected institutions and the idea of art work itself. One of his works, realized in 1980, integrates a map of Berlin area. Wolf Vostell est un éminent artiste allemand, mort…
La Bandera is a 1935 French drama film directed by Julien Duvivier and based a novel by Pierre Mac Orlan. On the run after having committed a murder, Pierre Gilieth (Jean Gabin) enlists in the Spanish Foreign Legion, with a police informant, Fernando Lucas (Robert Le Vigan). A great scene shows us an original spatial…
The U.S. administration has given its answer: there will be no replica of the famous Star Wars space station, in spite of the petition which had gathered nearly 35,000 signatures. The Death Star will not join Yoda in our collection of materializations of Star Wars fiction … Too bad ! (?) L’administration américaine a donné sa…
Snake Eyes is a 1998 movie directed by Brian De Palma. Rick Santoro (Nicolas Cage), a corrupt police detective, came to attend a boxing match in Atlantic Ciy ‘s Arena. He meets his friend Kevin Dunne (Gary Sinise) who escorts the United States Defense Secretary. The Secretary is the victim of an assassination attempt and…
Tropic Thunder is a 2008 action comedy film directed by Ben Stiller. While the shooting of a movie about Vietnam War is going badly, the director decides to immerse 5 actors in the jungle. He hopes to film them using candid cameras. Unfortunately, not everything goes as expected: they quickly find themselves isolated in the…
On (e)space and fiction we already have written about tattoos (Prison Break, Waterworld). But we present here a non fictional example. The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China to escape Tchang Kaï-chek’s Kuomintang army, during the Chinese Civil war. From 2002 to 2005, 250…
Æon Flux is a 2005 science fiction movie directed by Karyn Kusama. It is an adaptation of the animated television series created by Peter Chung. In 2011, a mortal virus eliminated 99 % of population on the Earth. Goodchild, a scientist, managed to create a vaccine and 400 years later, the survivors inhabit Bregna, a…
La baston is a 1985 french movie directed by Jean-Claude Missiaen. René Levasseur, ex-safecracker, accepts a last burglary to collect funds in order to bring his sick son to an US hospital for cardiac surgery. Unfortunately, things do not happen as expected. La baston est un film réalisé en 1985 par Jean-Claude Missiaen. René Levasseur,…
What to Do in Case of Fire? (Was tun, wenn’s brennt? in German) is a 2001 German film directed by Gregor Schnitzler. In 1987, in Kreuzberg, Berlin, 6 young squatters fight for their anarchistic ideals, making propaganda films under the name of « Group 36 ». In one of these movies, they show how to make a bomb that…
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…
Une affaire d’état is a 2009 french political thriller directed by Eric Valette. This movie is an adaptation of Dominque Manotti’s novel, Nos fantastiques années fric. It is about an affair of state, arms trafficking between France and Africa, covert financing, governmental security agencies, prostitution… and criminal investigation.We take a special interest in two characters.…
Invisible Target is a 2007 Hong-Kong action movie directed by Benny Chan. Three police officers join their forces together to fight a mafioso organization. The main spatial machinery is a phone localization in order to identify his owner. Invisible Target est un film d’action hongkongais réalisé par Benny Chan et sorti en salles en 2007.…
The Dorothy Art Collective created a Song Map where streets and places names are replaced by song titles, bands names, albums titles. Some examples below (Song / Artist / Album). Le collectif Dorothy a créé Song Map, un plan où les rues et les lieux ont été baptisés en utilisant des titres de chansons ou…
Mélodie en sous-sol is a 1965 movie directed by Henri Verneuil. Just brought out of jail, Charles (Jean Gabin) decides to organize a last bigrobbery. He joins forces with Francis (Alain Delon) and Louis (Maurice Biraud) to burgle the Palm Beach casino in Cannes. There are 2 very original spatial machineries : a plan and…
Total Recall is a 1990 science-fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. It is an adaptation of a Philip K. Dick’s novel, Remember it for You Wholesale. The movie tells the discovery by Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) he is not the man he believed he was. A spatial machinery takes a major role in the…
The Sunchaser is a 1996 movie directed by Michael Cimino. Brandon « Blue » Monroe (John Seda) is a 16 years old half-blood Navajo. He is in jail, suffering from an incurable cancer. During an examination at the UCLA Medical Plaza, Los Angeles, he takes the oncologist Reynolds (Woody Harrelson) hostage. He begins a desperate trip to…
Reality Bites is a 1994 romantic comedy film directed by Ben Stiller that tells the story of four young adults newly graduated who are looking for a place in the society. Among them, Troy (Ethan Hawke) loves Lelaina (Winona Ryder) in secret. Two maps appear in the movie. Génération 90 est une comédie romantique réalisée…
Yoda is THE Jedi Grand Master in Georges Lucas’s epic space opera: Star Wars. He appears in 5 of the 6 movies (I, II, III, V et VI). He materializes mainly in two places of the real world. Yoda est LE grand maître Jedi du space-opera Star Wars imaginé et réalisé par Georges Lucas. Il…
The Monster club is a 1980 horror movie directed by Roy Ward Baker. Eramus (Vincent Price) is a vampire. He approaches Ronald Chetwyn-Hayes (a real horror writer) who let him drink a little of his blood. In gratitude, the vampire invites his victim to the Monster club where he tells him 3 stories. A spatial…
La comunidad is a black comedy directed in 2000 by Álex de la Iglesia. Julia (Carmen Maura), an estate agent, discovers three hundred million pesetas in a dead man apartment. But neighbors want this fortune. Julia find the money thanks to an original spatial machinery. Mes chers voisins est une comédie noire réalisée en 2000…
Desperate Measuresis a 1998 thriller film directed by Barbet Schroeder. The Police Officer Frank Conner (Andy Garcia) is in search of a compatible bone marrow donor for his ill son Matt. There is only one catch : Peter McCabe (Michael Keaton), a convicted serial killer. But McCabe is ready for anything to escape and he consults…
Stalag 17 is a movie directed by Billy Wilder (1953) that tells the story of American prisoners in a German camp during the Second World War. They attempt to escape but they will first to unmask the traitor supposed to be in the group. Several spatial machineries appear in the movie. Stalag 17 est un film…
Le Cercle rouge is a 1970 movie directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. The gangster Vogel (Gian Maria Volonte) escapes the Commissaire Mattei (André Bourvil) who escorted him in the night train from Marseille to Paris. During his escape, he meets Corey (Alain Delon) freshly released from prison. Associated to Jansen (Yves Montand), they decide to burgle…
RoboCop is a 1987 science fiction and action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. The Detroit Police Departement is, by contract, under the control of a private consortium, OCP (Omni Consumer Product). But the hidden objective of OCP is to destroy the old town of Detroit and replace it with a new urban complex, Delta City.…
Funeral in Berlin is a 1966 British spy film directed by Guy Hamilton. British secret agent Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) is sent to Berlin to arrange the defection of Colonel Stok (Oskar Homolka), an important Soviet officer who is in charge of the security of a part of the Berlin Wall. Some maps appearsduring the…
Creative mapping is a blog dedicated to the creative use of maps in art or how to map information creatively. Creative mapping est un blog dédié à l’utilisation créative des cartes dans l’art ou à la manière de cartographier l’information de façon créative.
Mississippi Mermaid is a 1969 movie directed by François Truffaut. It is an adaptation of a William Irish’s novel, Waltz into Darkness. It tells the story of the absolute love of Louis Mahé (Jean-Paul Belmondo) for Marion Bergamo (Catherine Deneuve) and takes the form of a long pursuit in suffering and passion. The movie is…
The Cine-Tourist is a website about connections between maps and films. This site is chiefly about films made in Paris, Geneva and London (especially Muswell Hill). The Cine-Tourist only writes about places that he knows, what is not always our case! The Cine-Tourist est un site Web sur les connexions entre les cartes et les…
Village of the damned is a 1960 movie directed by Wolf Rilla. It is an adaptation of John Wyndham’s science fiction novel, The Midwich Cuckoos. All inhabitants and animals of Midwich, UK, fall unconscious for several hours. Anyone entering in a perimeter around the village loses consciousness too. A few months later, all women and…
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