The mysterious tool of the Quiz # 2 is a wire that John (Kieffer Sutherland) made for his sun to visually measure the progressive enlargement of the planet Melancholia that is approaching Earth. It is an archaic version of the telescope also used in the movie and it symbolize in some way the regression to…
« La cour secrète des Arcanes » is an animation film directed by Pascal Morelli in 2001. This is a free adaptation of one of stories of Corto Maltese, the famous adventurer invented by Italian designer Hugo Pratt. The film includes scenes from several albums, mainly « La maison dorée de Samarkand « . In this album, maps are…
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 (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…
Atanarjuat, the legend of fast runner is the first of a series of three Inuit films, called the trilogy « The fast runner« : Atarnajuat (2000), The journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006), Before Tomorrow (2009). This film evokes space and other aspects of Inuit culture through one of its legends. Atanarjuat is Canada’s first feature-length fiction film…
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 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 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 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 » 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 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…
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…
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 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 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…
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.…
« 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…
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…
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…
Un balcon en forêt is a film shot in 1979 by Michel Mitrani from the book of the same title of Julien Gracq, published in 1958 by Editions Jose Corti. This editor published in 2011, Manuscrits de guerre of the same author, written while he lived as a military the few weeks of the German…
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, 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…
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,…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
The French singer Florent Marchet, sometimes compared to Alain Souchon despite their very different universes, likes also to refer to places in his songs. His personal geography is located slightly further south than Souchon’s Sologne. Florent Marchet evokes his natal Berry in Gargilesse, an instrumental that refers to « one of the most beautiful villages in…
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…
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