Carte interactive du Monopoly (Paris)
Une carte interactive du Monopoly de Paris en utilisant la base de données IGN BDTopo /\ An interactive map of Paris Monopoly using the IGN BDTopo database
Le Bossu de Notre-Dame : la carte « toujours déjà là »
Un exemple d’objet commun qui ne devient une carte que quand on en prend conscience. Exemple : Le Bossu de Notre-Dame (1996) de Disney.
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
Buffet froid. Cartes et cadavres exquis
L’extraordinaire première scène de Buffet Froid (B. Blier) est la seule du film qui soit précisément localisée et la seule à mettre en scène des cartes, celles de la station RER de la Défense. Elle est pourtant aussi énigmatique que l’ensemble du film. /\ In Buffet Froid (B. Blier’s movie), the first scene is the only one to be precisely localized and the only one to display maps, those of the RER train station of La Défense. However, the scene is as enigmatic as the whole movie.
L’armée des ombres, affiche
Merci au Cartographe (voir aussi ici ) pour ce superbe et sophistiqué spécimen collecté sur Twitter et que nous épinglons à notre tour sur (e)space&fiction. Il s’agit de l’affiche japonaise originale du film de Melville L’Armée des ombres (1970) qui dispose les visages des acteurs autour d’un prisonnier dont la chemise prend la forme d’une…
Annual Rings – Dennis Oppenheim (1968)
Annual Rings (1968), œuvre de Dennis Oppeheim exposée au musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole (MAMC+) jusqu’au 8 avril a toute sa place dans la collection de (e)space & fiction. /\ Annual Rings (1968), a work of Dennis Oppeheim exhibited until April 8th at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Saint-Étienne Métropole (MAMC +) has to be in (e)space & fiction.
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.
Pneumatique, espace et communication dans Baisers volés (F. Truffaut)
Qu’est-ce qu’un tube pneumatique et à quelle fin Truffaut intègre un plan aussi documentaire dans son film Baisers volés ? What is a pneumatic tube and why Truffaut integrates a shot of this kind in his movie Baisers volés.
En voiture, Jeannette ! – Mauvaise Graine de Billy Wilder
Dans Mauvaise Graine, joli premier film parisien de Billy Wilder on traverse Paris et la France en voiture dans un ballet cartographique enlevé /\ In Mauvaise Graine, pleasant first parisian Billy Wilder’s we cross Paris and France in a spirited cartographic ballet.
Patrick Modiano, archéologue de la mémoire de Paris/ Patrick Modiano, archeologist of the memory of Paris
Patrick Modiano, prix Nobel 2014, a un rapport particulier à Paris, quasi obsessionnel /\ Patrick Modiano, Nobel Prize 2014, has a special, almost obsessive, relationship with Paris
Échappées littéraires dans le métro parisien
Un site cartographique qui recommande un livre associé aux stations de métro parisiennes /\ A Web map that recommend a book in association with Paris subway stations.
La grande vadrouille – Oury (2)
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.
Paname Urbex : lieux de tournages à Paris / filming locations in Paris
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,…
Exposition temporaire « Revoir Paris » de François Schuiten et Benoît Peeters à la Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine/ Temporary exhibition « Revoir Paris » of François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine
The temporary exhibition « Revoir Paris » held on 20 November 2014 to 9 March 2015, offers the opportunity to engage a dialog between the work of François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, cartoonists, writers and screenwriters, with the one of Jules Verne, Robida or Le Corbusier, and, on the other hand, with development projects in Paris and…
Patrick Modiano, cartographie et vaporisation / Mapping and Vaporization
On peut qualifier Patrick Modiano, récent Nobel de Littérature, de romancier géographique. Ses romans entrelacent d’une manière unique temps et espace dans des enquêtes à la fois pointilleuses et inabouties aux ambiances brumeuses. Les livres de Modiano sont remplis de lieux, essentiellement parisiens, d’adresses, d’itinéraires très précis, où l’on suit souvent un enquêteur croisant archives…
« La fille de l’horoscope » : une oeuvre surréaliste et « étrange » de Marcel Jean/ « La fille de l’horoscope »: a surrealist and strange work of Marcel Jean
The exhibition « Le Surréalisme et l’objet« , which takes place at the Centre Pompidou in Paris from 30 October 2013 to 3 March 2014, reveals, among others, a work by Marcel Jean entitled « La fille de l’horoscope« from 1970. This is a small model (38.5 x 22 x 15.5 cm), such as larger used in sewing,…
La géographie dans « La Recherche » de Marcel Proust / Geography in Proust’s « In Search of Lost Time »
In the main work of Marcel Proust « In Search of Lost Time« , geography holds a prime position. It is not a descriptive geography, neither a geography with a scientific purpose nor exactly anchored on the reality, but a geography born from the imagination of the author where reality is closely intertwined with his imagination. According to…
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 …
Peut-être (Klapisch) : le présent c’est déjà le futur, ici c’est aussi ailleurs/ Present is already future, here is also elsewhere
Peut-être (1999) is a film directed by Cédric Klapisch. This film takes place alternately in present time, the Eve of the Year 2000, and a future time, located in 2070. But the film exhibits also an apartment within an Haussmann type building in Paris, and outside of it, located in a wealthy neighborhood of Paris.…
En relief
Relief maps have a rather elegant rendering. Despite their decorative aspect, they are quite rare in fiction movies. This post attempts to begin an inventory of films with relief maps, beginning by 4 French movies. Les cartes en relief donnent un résultat assez élégant. Cependant il est plutôt rare d’en rencontrer dans les œuvres de…
La bandera – Duvivier
La Bandera is a 1935 French drama film directed by Julien Duvivier and based a novel by Pierre Mac Orlan. On the run after having committed a murder, Pierre Gilieth (Jean Gabin) enlists in the Spanish Foreign Legion, with a police informant, Fernando Lucas (Robert Le Vigan). A great scene shows us an original spatial…
Paris vu par Hollywood, Exhibition/Exposition
About 800 American films evoke Paris, making the French capital by far the most represented foreign city in American cinema. One could almost speak of « Film about Paris » as a specific genre (Antoine de Baecque). The exhibition Paris vu par Hollywood presents this cinematographic American outlook on Paris, between tourist clichés, cultural stereotypes and the invention…
Songs of Paris, the Map/La carte de Paris en chansons
The exhibition Paris en Chansons is now closed but the interactive map is still on line : http://www.chansons.paris.fr/carto. Dans le cadre de l’exposition, maintenant terminée, Paris en Chansons, une jolie carte interactive des lieux évoqués dans les chansons françaises est en ligne : http://www.chansons.paris.fr/carto.
La baston – Missiaen
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,…
Paris Noir. On the Dark Side of the City of Light
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…
Une affaire d’état. Valette
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.…
Star Wars Back on Earth / Retour sur terre de la Guerre des étoiles
The dark lens series of the photographer Cédric Delseau (a book at Editions Xavier Barral) is an artistic kind of materialization of fiction. The photographer takes pictures in contemporary urban sites of different countries (France, Dubai …) and add them characters and spaceships from the movie Star Warsby George Lukas. This is not just a collage…
Un bar parfait – Jean-Bernard Pouy
Un bar parfait is a French novel by Jean-Bernard Pouy published in September 2011. A white wine lover goes all over Paris in search of the perfect bar. The One that will offer him better than Cabernet or Sauvignon. He tries one bar after the other, all are different. In this book J.-B. Pouy uses…
Le cercle rouge, Melville
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…
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.…
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