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La collection Ciné voyage est une collection de livres pour les amoureux de la ville et du cinéma, et pour tous ceux qui aiment donner du sens à leurs voyages
La collection Ciné voyage est une collection de livres pour les amoureux de la ville et du cinéma, et pour tous ceux qui aiment donner du sens à leurs voyages
Utiliser Google Earth pour retrouver son village natal /\ Using Google Earth to try to find his native village
Les géodispositifs rencontrés dans l’épisode VI de la saga Star Wars /\ Spatial machineries in Star Wars Episode VI
Dans le film Diamants sur canapé Holly tricote un objet aux formes curieuses. Serait-ce le plan d’un ranch » ? Et si un fil invisible reliait carte et tricot ? /\ In the movie Breafkfast at Tiffany’s Holly is knitting an indistinct object, a ranch perhaps ? And if an invisible thread were connecting maps and knitting?
« The Wall » film d’Alan Parker basé sur l’album des Pink Floyd évoque l’enfermement mental du chanteur d’un groupe à succès et ses fantasmes d’un ordre paramilitaire /\ « The Wall », film by Alan Parker based on the album of Pink Floyd evoke the mental imprisonment of the singer of a successful band fascinated by a paramilitary established order.
Specimen : au hasard des rues de Bologne, près de la cinémathèque, cette superbe affiche dessinée pour la version restaurée de Rome, Ville ouverte …
Dans « Week-end à Zuydcoote » de H. Verneuil, une carte utilisée pour montrer l’avancée des troupes allemandes et l’encerclement des troupes alliées, trahit la date de réalisation du film /\ In « Week-end à Zuydcoote » by H. Verneuil, , a map used to show the advance of the German troops and the encirclement of the Allied troops, betrays the date of realization of the film
Specimen : la France polluée s’affiche derrière le commissaire Guibout.
Specimen : Cartographie des nuages
Un exemple très récent de matérialisation est le défilé de la Fête des Morts à Mexico, invention du dernier James Bond. /\ A very recent example of maeriaization is the parade organized in Mexico during the Day of the Deads, pure invention of the last James Bond film.
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).
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.
Le plan du lycée dessiné par Gus van Sant pour tourner son film Elephant /\ The map of the Highschool drawn on by Gus van Sant for the shooting of Elephant.
Jérémy Banster consacre un biopic au journaliste-explorateur Raymond Maufrais dont la vie (et la disparition) est liée au mythe (cartographique) des monts Tumuc-Humac. /\ Jeremy Banster realized a biopic about Raymond Maufrais, a French reporter whose life (and disappearance) is linked to the (mapping) myth of Tumuk Humak Mountains.
Une visite de la base secrète de Batman dans Street View /\ A tour in the secret base of Batman
Les nombreux dispositifs spatiaux de La guerre des étoiles. Episode IV /\ The profuse spatial machineries in Starwars. Episode IV.
Dans ce film, les cartes sont partout : dans le nom du personnage Monsieur Sim, dans les menus et dans sa voiture où la voix du GPS tient un rôle majeur /\ « Cartes » (in French the same word is used for maps, cards and menus) are everywhere in this movie, adapted from Jonathan Coe’s novel Mr Sim.
From 16 October 2015 to 14 February 2016, the Cinémathèque française presents the exhibition « Scorsese, l’exposition ». This exhibition which opened on October 14 in the presence of American film maker Martin Scorsese and the President of the French République F. Hollande, offers an opportunity to return to the life and work of this Sicilian immigrant’s…
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),…
This post about Procida, a small island in the Bay of Naples, is the first of three dedicated to relations between places and cinema written after a trip through Campania. Ce petit tour sur l’île de Procida, dans la baie de Naples, inaugure une série de trois billets tirés d’un voyage en Campanie, qui décrivent…
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…
(e)space&fiction already mentioned the London Underground map that Albert Dehousse learned by heart to enhance the credibility of his false engagement in the Resistance. One can found another very brilliant sequence later in the film when the « hero » travels to Germany for a military mission. Nous avons déjà mentionné dans (e)space&fiction le dispositif de la carte du…
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…
A trap street, or errata, is a fictitious street inserted into maps to purposefully trap potential copyright violators of the map. Normally quite innocuous, these fictitious bits of information are used as proof to spot where plagiarism has taken place. The recent chinese feature film « Trap Street » inverts the usual meaning of this expression, becoming…
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…
Superpowers might give superheroes a very specific experience of space. Some examples of spatial machineries in comic books and movies confirm this idea. The superheroes are often confronted with original cartographic issues and often invent very precursory geospatial devices. So here are already Supermap and Batmap, before possibly, if you dig into your old Marvel magazines to find…