Les cartes du gendarme et des voleurs – Maps of the Policeman and the Thieves (Un flic. Melville)
Les cartes dans Un Flic (J.-P. Melville). Une analyse /\ The maps in Un Flic (J.-P. Melville). Analysis
Le deuxième souffle (Jean-Pierre Melville) : un plan de Paris pour localiser des truands / a Paris Map to Localize Mobsters
Dans le deuxième souffle de Jean-Pierre Melville un plan sert à localiser deux truands dans Paris /\ In « Le deuxième souffle » by Jean-Pierre Melville, a map is used to locate two mobsters in Paris.
Direction Matignon ! Un hommage à Roger Grenier/ To Matignon ! A tribute to Roger Grenier
En hommage à l’écrivain Roger Grenier, à son sentiment géographique et à son évocation précise et sensible de Paris /\ An homage to Roger Grenier, the very personal « sentiment géographique » that pervades his writing through sensitive and precise evocations of Paris.
Patrick Modiano et la mémoire des panneaux indicateurs lumineux d’itinéraires de la RATP/ Patrick Modiano and the memory of RATP illuminated itineraries panels
Les éditions Gallimard viennent de publier Souvenirs dormants, le dernier roman de Patrick Modiano, Prix Nobel de littérature en 2014, auquel (e)space&fiction a déjà consacré deux billets ici et ici. Dans Souvenirs dormants, l’auteur de Dora Bruder ou encore de Place de l’étoile, revisite ses souvenirs dans le Paris des années 50 et 60, avec…
Voyages à Twin Peaks 25 ans après / Travel to TwinPeaks 25 years after
A l’occasion de la diffusion de la troisième saison de la série télévisée Twin Peaks, réalisée par David Lynch, plusieurs ouvrages ont été publiés. Parmi ceux-ci, nous présentons Voyages à Twin Peaks d’Axel Cadieux (éditions capricci). Cet ouvrage revient sur les 25 ans pendant lesquelles cette série est devenue une référence majeure dans le genre…
Exposition « Montmartre décor de cinéma » au Musée de Montmartre à Paris
Le Musée de Montmartre à Paris accueille du 12 avril 2017 au 14 janvier 2018 l’exposition « Montmartre décor de cinéma » /\ The exhibition « Montmartre décor de cinéma » (Montmartre as a film shooting location) takes place at the Museum of Montmartre between 12 April 2017 and 14 January 2018.
Intérieur de Thomas Clerc : une spatiographie des lieux de l’intime / Intérieur of Thomas Clerc : a spatiography of intimate places
En 2015, Thomas Clerc a écrit Intérieur, un essai romanesque, pour lequel l’auteur revendique l’héritage de Georges Perec./\In 2015, Thomas Clerc wrote Intérieur, a novel essay, for which the author claims the legacy of Georges Perec.
Star Wars / La guerre des étoiles. Episode VI
Les géodispositifs rencontrés dans l’épisode VI de la saga Star Wars /\ Spatial machineries in Star Wars Episode VI
Star Wars / La guerre des étoiles. Episode V
Les géodispositifs rencontrés dans l’épisode V de la saga Star Wars /\ The spatial machineries in Star Wars Episode V.
Exposition Gus Van Sant à la Cinémathèque française : le plan d’un éléphant/Gus Van Sant exhibition at the Cinémathèque française : the plan of an elephant
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.
Le « plan » du livre. La cache (Boltanski)/The « Plan » of the Book
Un joli et original géodispositif graphique accompagne le texte de La cache, le roman de Christophe Boltanski /\ We find a beautiful and original spatial machinery in La cache, Christophe Boltanski’s novel.
Wayne’s world 1 & 2
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…
La métamorphose des cloportes
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 …
Ni à vendre ni à louer
Ni à vendre ni à louer is a French comedy by Pascal Rabaté. Several stories intertwine in this offbeat film without a word. A spatial machinery can be found in this film that we already mentioned twice (Dogville et Bob la flambeur): a 1:1 scale plan. Ni à vendre ni à louer est une comédie…
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…
Desperate Measures / L’Enjeu – Schroeder
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…
Eric Rohmer, an « urban cine-geographer » ? / un « cinégéographe » de la ville ?
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…
Les marchands de sable / The Sandmen – Salvadori
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.…
Le mani sulla città / Main basse sur la ville – Rosi
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 – Melville
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.…
Elective Affinities / Affinités électives – Taviani
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…
Riget/The Kingdom/Le Royaume – Von Trier & Arnfred
Of course place matters in this story where a modern hospital built upon a swamp is subject to a supernatural menace coming from the past. Bien sûr le lieu a de l’importance dans cette histoire qui raconte comment un hôpital moderne construit sur des marais est soumis à une menace surnaturelle venue du passé.
Le corniaud – Oury
Released in 1965 Le corniaud is a French road-movie directed by Gérard Oury. Leopold Saroyan, godfather of a syndicate of gangsters, persuades Antoine Maréchal to drive a Cadillac from Naples to Bordeaux. He does not know that various illicit substances are hidden in the vehicle in order to cross illegally the border. During a meeting,…
Jam Films / けん玉 / Kendama – Shinohara
Kendama is the second short-movie of Jam Films, a project bringing together seven Japanese directors. A kendama is a Japanese cup-and-ball game… In this film, a company director offers his employee one of this object to show his gratitude … But it is actually hiding the plan of a treasure hunt that leads to the…
Rock’n’roll Metro Map
Alberto Antoniazzi, an Italian graphic designer, presents the history of Rock as a subway map where every line corresponds to a sub-genre and every group or musician corresponds to a station that may connect two lines. He uses all the codes of a subway map : colors, symbols, legend. You can see it on the…
Die Hard – visual marks / Piège de cristal – repères visuels
In his movie Die Hard, John MacTierman has to face a difficult problem: how to allow John MacClane (Bruce Willis) to locate in a tower where all floors are designed on a similar plan. He has also to be sure that the spectator will not get lost when the hero passes from a level to…
Dogville: Closed space/Espace clos
The film Dogville directed by Lars Von Trier (2003) takes literally place on a map. The action unfolds in a small town in the U.S. The houses are drawn on the ground, some elements are represented by symbols (e.g. some bushes), and the names of the streets are written on the ground. Only few pieces…
Movements detector in Alien / Le détecteur de mouvements dans Alien
In Alien, the Ridley Scott’s movie, the science officer Ash designs a tracking device to detect moving objects. By this way, the Nostromo’s crew hopes to locate and eliminate the « 8th Passenger » that is hidden in the ventilation ductwork. Dans Alien de Ridley Scott, Ash, l’officier scientifique, conçoit un détecteur permettant de repérer les objets…
Jack Bauer, geospatial hero
24 is certainly one of the most original and most influential TV series in recent years. It is also one of those with Alias that systematically use geospatial tools for telling stories. 24 (24 heures chrono en France) est certainement une des séries télévisées les plus originales et les plus marquantes de ces dernières années.…
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