Carte géographique classique en 2D, qu’elle soit topographique, thématique, orographique, statistique … Sans mention spéciale, il s’agit d’une carte statique sur papier. Les cartes sur d’autres supports sont classées dans « Autres cartes ».
A classic 2D map, whether topographic, thematic, orographic, statistical, etc. Unless otherwise specified, this refers to a static map on paper. Maps on other media are categorized as “Other maps.”
The inventory of geodigital tools used in the final season of theTV series « 24 » was released on Monde Géonumérique. It is added to the inventories of seasons 4 to 7 (self-promotion). L’inventaire des outils géonumériques utilisés dans l’ultime saison de la série télévisée 24 est paru sur Monde Géonumérique. Il rejoint l’inventaire des saisons 4…
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…
In Synecdoche, the first film he directed, Charlie Kaufman offers us a crazy game based on the impossible paradox of the perfect representation of reality. Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a depressive and hypochondriac theater director. He wants to create the absolute play by putting on stage an exact and faithful reproduction of his…
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…
Easy Rider (Hopper,1968) is considered as the typical road movie, even as a manifesto of this type. The film was directed by the American actor Dennis Hooper, who died in May 2010. In late 2008, the Cinemathèque Française presented a wonderful exhibition entitled « Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood ». As Matthew Orleans, curator of the…
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.…
Great Guns (1941) is an American comedy directed by Monty Banks. Laurel and Hardy are the domestic servants of a rich and capricious boss. When the United States get involved in World War II, the boss joins the Army. Both friends decide then to enlist also in order to continue serving him. Many maps are…
The Blog.vodkaster.com is a blog dedicated to the video platform Vodkaster.com which aims to index movies through short excerpts. One of the posts presents about « 250 greatest movies of all times » as a subway map. See also this reference to the same technique applied to Rock’nRoll. Le site Blog.vodkaster.com accompagne la plateforme vidéo collaborative consacrée…
As clearly described in its subtitle, the movie Zig-Zag (dir. Raul Ruiz 1980) is « a didactical fiction about cartography. » This “cine-cartographic” essay navigates between the documentary and the fiction, the map and the territory, the dream and the reality. Made in the context of the art exhibit “Cartes et figures de la terre” that took…
Eric Rohmer was part of the « Nouvelle Vague » movement that radically changed the French cinema at the end of the ’50s and during the ’60s. He filmed the French urban landscapes and its profound transformation during these years. He has always been attentive in his films to the importance of urban places and more generally to…
The Killers (Siodmak,1946) is truly a classic of film noir. The opening scene is famous. Two men are sitting in front of a car driving at high-speed through the night. Then the camera scans the road and a sign shows up in the headlights: Brentwood, New Jersey. And below, in an ironic mode considering what…
The Sandmen (2000) is a French thriller movie directed by Pierre Salvadori and set in the 18th Arrondissement of Paris. When the film starts Alain (Serge Riaboukine) is giving a statement to the police. The scene ends with a shot of a map hang on the wall of the Police Station that shows the precinct.…
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.
The Italian movies of 50s, 60s and 70s invented a new way to depict geography of Italy after second world war, especially urban landscapes. By describing what was supposed to become the geography of the new Italy, as well as its new architecture, urbanism and land planning, the Italian filmmakers wanted to show future face…
Bob le flambeur is a French movie directed in 1955 by Jean-Pierre Melville. Bob, an old gangster and gambler, is almost broke now. In spite of the warnings of a friend, a high police official, he decides to rob a Casino in Dauville. Everything is carefully planed, but the police is informed about the coup.…
« Paris en toutes lettres » that will take place between the 5th and the 8th of May 2011 proposes a literary mapping web site to set up a collaborative inventory of the places where lived some fictitious characters of literature. Le site de la 3ème édition de « Paris en toutes lettres » a lieu du 5 au…
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…
Ces jours-ci la chaîne de télévision franco-allemande ARTE diffuse les épisodes de la série Twin Peaks, réalisée à la fin des années 80 par David Lynch et Mark Frost. Cette série, comprenant un pilote de 90 minutes, un épisode de 90 minutes et 28 épisodes de 45 minutes, fut diffusée pour la première fois entre…
Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 action mystery film based on the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey and Dan Lin. The screenplay by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham and Simon Kinberg was developed from…
At the last minute, an invitation to the exhibition Le monde physique (The Physical World) featuring works inspired by geological and climatological data and maps at the La Galerie Contemporary Art Center in Noisy-le-Sec. Please note that it ends on Saturday, April 23. In extremis, une invitation pour l’exposition Le monde physique avec des œuvres …
In Meangirls, a 2004 American teen comedy film, we find an interesting example of social mapping. Cady is a new student who does not know anyone yet in North Shore high school. Janis draws for her a map of the cafeteria that presents the various groups of students and where they sit. It is indeed very…
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…
Isle of Flowers is a 1989 Brazilian short film by Jorge Furtado about globalization.You can watch it (12 min) on line. Here are the part one and the part two in English). The film starts with a spinning globe and the next shot focuses on a field of tomatoes. A voice locates the action very…
Duane Hanson ( 1925-1996 ) is an American sculptor known for the realistic and life-sized works of people he created with various materials (polyester resin, fiberglass, bronze, Bondo). His work is associated with hyperrealism and Pop Art movement. One of these works, Tourists, represents a couple of tourists, caricatures of the stereotypical American tourists. In…
The Good, the Bad and the Weird (dir. Ji-woon Kim, 2008) is a remake of Sergio Leone’s masterpiece The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1966). Beyond the fact that both versions unfold in different locations and at different times (1860s American civil war and 1930s Mandchuria), the presence of maps in both versions leads…
Released in 1966, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (It buono, brutto it, it cattivo) is a western directed by Sergio Leone. It is the last Sergio Leone’s westerns with Clint Eastwood. In this film he co-starred with Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach. The three protagonists are in search of a treasure. One…
Elective Affinities (1996) is a movie directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani based on the novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Edouard (Jean-Hugues Anglade) and Charlotte (Isabelle Huppert), a couple of aristocrats, invited a childhood friend of Edouard (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) to join them in their villa in Tuscany. This friend is an architect. In the…
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