« 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…
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…
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…
Before Google Earth there was WorldWind and Keyhole (the company that created the application used to develop Google Earth). Before Keyole, there was the movie Powers of Ten (dir. Charles and Ray Eames 1977). Indeed, one of the co-founders of Keyole – Avi Bar-Zeev – recognized the inspirational dimension of Power of Tens in the…
Is this the first animated map ever? At least it is one of the first ones. It was created for a 1918 docudrama entitled Among the Cannibal Isles of the South Pacific (Martin E. Johnson, 1918). An animated black line traces the journey of director Martin Johnson and his wife Osa from the New Hebrides…
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