Quiz 2 : Melancholia. The Mysterious Tool / L’outil mystérieux
Quiz n°2. The answer on this site on 2012/07/20 : / La réponse sur ce site le : 20/07/2012
Æon Flux
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 grande vadrouille – Gérard Oury (1)
La Grande Vadrouille (literally « The Great Stroll »; originally released in the United States as Don’t Look Now… We’re Being Shot At!) is a 1966 Franco-British comedy film about how the crew of a Royal Air Force bomber shot down over Paris must then make their way through German-occupied France with the main help of two…
Des chambres en ville. Agnès Varda
Those who have seen Une chambre en ville the movie by Jacques Demy (1982) probably remember the creepy televisions shop run by the scary Edmond Leroyer (Michel Piccoli), jealous and crazy husband of the beautiful Edith (Dominique Sanda). As part of Le voyage à Nantes, artistic event held in Nantes from 15 June to 18…
The Seven Year Itch / Sept ans de réflexion
The Seven Year Itch is an American comedy released in 1955 that was adapted by Billy Wilder from a play by George Axelrod. Despite the strong intervention of the censor board during the writing the script and the filming, the movie caused a scandal when it was released in American Puritan circles. Billy wilder uses…
La baston – Missiaen
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,…
A Self-Made Hero / Un héros très discret. Audiard
A Self-Made Hero was directed by Jacques Audiard in 1996 from Jean-François Deniau’s book. It won the best screenplay award from Cannes Film Festival. Un héros très discret a été réalisé par Jacques Audiard en 1996 d’après le roman de Jean-François Deniau. Il a obtenu le Prix du Meilleur Scénario au Festival de Cannes.
« On the road » a film of Walter Salles adapted from Jack Kerouac novel/ « Sur la route » de Walter Salles adapté du roman de Jack Kerouac
« On the Road » is a film by Walter Salles, adapted from the novel by Jack Kerouac. This film was presented at the 65th Cannes Film Festival and was released on screens on May 23, 2012. Kerouac’s novel, published in 1957, and one of the best known of this author, relate trip Kerouac between the east…
Moonrise Kingdom : Maps for Locating Places in a Film/ Des cartes pour suivre les lieux d’un film
Moonrise Kingdom is an American film directed by Wes Anderson, which was presented during the opening session of the 65th Cannes Film Festival 2012. The screenplay was written by Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, son of Francis Ford Coppola. Moonrise Kingdom is an unusual film, at once funny, touching and quirky. One can easily find…
Le Trône de Fer / Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones is an American television series adapted from the G.R.R Martin’s series of fantasy novel A song of Ice and Fire, and has been broadcast since April 2011. Set in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, Game of Thrones chronicles the violent dynastic struggles among the kingdom’s noble families for control of the Iron…
Was tun, wenn’s brennt? / Retour de flammes
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…
Paris Noir. On the Dark Side of the City of Light
Paris Noir is an anthology of short stories located in Paris and written by French authors. Published in 2008 English as part of the Noir Series of Akashic Books, the original texts are now available in French. The Noir Series bring together all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the…
Cleopatra – Joseph Mankiewicz / Cléopâtre
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…
The Desert of the Tartars (Buzzati) : space and fiction of a military no man’s land / Le Désert des Tartares : espace et fiction d’un no man’s land militaire
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.…
escapethemap
« 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…
Die Hard With a Vengeance / Die Hard 3 : Une journée en enfer
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…
Quiz 1 : Answer / Réponse
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…
Rear Windows / Fenêtre sur cour. Panorama
The artist and film director Jeff Deson created an extraordinary new montage of Rear Windows, the movie from Hitchock, in an unique animated panorama. An amazing experience. L’artiste et réalisateur Jeff Deson propose un objet très inattendu : la mise à plat en un seul tableau panoramique animé de tous les plans du film de…
The Quiz. A New Kind of Post / Un nouveau type de billet
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.…
Face/Off / Volte/Face – Woo
Face/Off is a thriller movie directed by John Woo in 1997. Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage), a dangerous terrorist, fell into a coma after a fight with Sean Archer, an FBI agent played by John Travolta . Thanks to a plastic surgery operation, Archer takes the face of Troy in order to make Troy’s brother confess where…
(e)space & fiction aux Rencontres SIG La Lettre
Pour la 4ème année, les géomaticien-nes, spécialistes des SIG, néogéographes, fous de cartes et assimilés venant de France, de Navarre et d’ailleurs convergent début avril à Marne-la-Vallée près de Paris pour les Rencontres SIG la Lettre. Cette année, (e)space & fiction participe doublement à l’événement. Nous organisons le mercredi 4 avril de 18h à 20h…
Une affaire d’état. Valette
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.…
Duel (Spielberg) : cartographier la route du récit / mapping the road of the narrative
Duel, le premier film de Spielberg, qui raconte la poursuite d’une voiture par un camion fou est entièrement tourné au niveau du sol. Aucune vue aérienne, très peu de recul. La caméra est à hauteur des pare-chocs et de l’habitacle des véhicules, plus rarement sur un bas-côté à peine surélevé. Ce filmage tangentiel participe du…
Map of Simpsons destinations/La carte des destinations des Simpsons
After 23 seasons, the Simpsons have traveled to many countries. To discover them, Slate.fr website offers an interactive map that shows which countries the most famous family of the United States have visited and in which season of the famous TV serie). Après 23 saisons, les Simpsons ont parcouru de nombreux pays. Pour les découvrir,…
Some news from Mona Lisa / Des nouvelles de la Joconde
La Croix and many other newspapers mentioned the discovery that the copy of the Mona Lisa in the Prado Museum in Madrid is older than it was previously thought and was painted in Da Vinci’s workshop itself. It appears the painting is contemporary with the original,and could be a preparatory study for Leonardo’s Mona Lisa.…
Invisible Target – Benny Chan
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.…
Crossroads in Maus – Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman, creator of the graphic narrative Maus, is the President of the 39th Angoulême International Comics Festival in Angoulême. It is the opportunity to celebrate on (e)space & fiction this exceptional designer by presenting this deeply moving frame issued from page 127 in the first volume of Maus. The road network that forms a…
Song Map by Dorothy
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 – Verneuil
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…
Babar and Father Christmas’s House/ Babar et la Maison du Père Noël – Jean de Brunhoff
Here is a seasonal post. Christmas time is for children and children’s stories. It is the perfect moment to present the simple and naive but very effective spatial machinery Jean de Brunhoff imagines when he relates the discovery of the house of Father Christmas by Babar in the album Babar and Father Christmas(1941). It illustrates…
