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.
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, prix Nobel 2014, a un rapport particulier à Paris, quasi obsessionnel /\ Patrick Modiano, Nobel Prize 2014, has a special, almost obsessive, relationship with Paris
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.
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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.
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…
« 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…
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