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What are you going to do on saturday night?
Hi everyone! I'm going to inaugurate this common blog by giving you an appointment! Are you interested in music? Do you ever listen to the bands that play in your city – in our case, Tours ? And did you know that we had the luck to have great bands and...
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Unmade Beds by Alexis Dos Santos
Unmade beds is the second movie from the Argentine director Alexis Dos Santos. Axl (Fernando Tielve) is Spanish man who is living in London to find his English father who abandoned him when he was a baby. Vera (Déborah François), a French young woman,...
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And the Palme d'Or goes to ...
The 2010 Cannes Film Festival Since the 63rd edition of the Cannes Film Festival is imminent, I decided to talk about it : to present it since its foundation and to talk about this 63rd edition. The Cannes Film Festival is one of the oldest and most prestigious...
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The art of Tim Burton
I wanted to write this article not to introduce this artist who, I guess, you all know; but because many of us know his work from only a very narrow angle. At the mention of his name, some people just reduce it to the cliché of the basic film-maker whose...
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"The Lovely Bones"
Quand on nous évoque le nom de Peter Jackson, on a spontanément tendance à penser à l’excellente trilogie du Seigneur des Anneaux, à King Kong ou encore à District 9. Des films où les sujets dominants sont la guerre, les créatures fantastiques ou encore...
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"Invictus"
"It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul." These few lines are from the poem called “Invictus”, written in 1875 by the British Poet William Ernest Henley. It...
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In memory...
I would like to tell you a story which happened on August 25th 1944. You may know this date because it is the day of the Liberation of Paris from the Germans in 1944-45 , but I am not going to talk to you about that because on that same day, a real tragedy...
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L'Eveil du Printemps
Saturday evening I went to the Centre Dramatique Régional de Tours (CDRT) to see a theatre play called Spring’s Awakening (L’Eveil du Printemps in French) by the company Midiminuit. It can be summed up that way: _“Gosh, something’s happening in my underpants!...
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Kick Ass (2010), by Matthew Vaughn, par Cynt'H
We are gonna kick some ass!!! For my birthday, I’ve seen an excellent “kick ass” movie called Kick Ass. This couldn’t be more perfect to improve my day. This movie is f***ing good! Words are not appropriate enough to describe it to you so here’s the trailer:...
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Lovely Zooey
L o v e l y Z o o e y A lthough Zooey Deschanel is not well known in France, she has been melting hearts now for almost a decade, since her supporting role in Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous , her second film after debuting in comedy Mumford with Hope Davis...
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Concert review: Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown Tour 2009 (Paris Bercy 10/04/09)
I wanted to talk about one of the best concerts I have seen (and it is easy to do because I've only seen two concerts in my whole life) which is Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown Tour. They came in Paris Bercy on October the 4th and I'm going to tell...
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Shutter Island by Martin Scorsese
This movie is a psychological thriller, based on the novel Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane, who wrote Gone Baby Gone and Mystic River which have also been made into movies. After Gangs of New-York, The Aviator and The Departed, it is the 4th collaboration...
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Why So Serious? And the art of anarchism. Par Cynt'H
Anarchism is the total absence and refusal of any rules, it is chaos. Anarchism is an incompatible with our society since we are organized in all aspects of life; work hierarchy, social classes… We obey to different rules; laws, the 10 commandments, the...
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* Bus palladium *
Samedi après-midi, 14h08, nous sommes en retard pour le film : il est lancé depuis 3 minutes. On nous laisse gracieusement rentrer dans la salle d'un cinéma complètement désert, et effectivement : la salle était vide, et le film aurait même tourné sans...
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Sorry for the sensitivity
Hi everybody! To celebrate the awakening of Springtime (let's forget that it has been raining for two days), here are some lyrics I wrote last winter while I was looking forward to a little bit of warmth and sunshine. Because there is nothing on Earth...
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The American Gun Culture
I decided to talk about an important subject to me. Actually, it is the only reason why I wouldn’t go to the USA. I am going to talk about the American gun culture. I think it is a really important subject because the rates of murders which involve a...
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"For those about to rock, we salute you!"
“ But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas! But it's all right, I’m Jumping Jack flash It's a Gas,Gas,Gas! ” I can’t let this song go out of my head after having seen a few hours ago the excellent movie “The Boat that rocked” (in French “Good Morning...
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Welcome to our new season!
Welcome everybody to our new season of Civcomtours goes to the Web. . This is not much, just a very short message to start this new season of our blog, a blog which will keep you slightly busy for the rest of the year (hopefully!) I have started this...
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Hips(ters) don’t lie…
What on earth does this mean? I first heard the term a couple of weeks ago when a friend of mine emailed me a link which enables you to create your own ‘hipster’. I initially thought that it was a sort of inanimate character that I used to enjoy creating...
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A showman named Barrowman
"John Barrowman is an Entertainer with a capital E. He sings, he dances, he acts, he presents, he judges - he is a unique talent in the British entertainment industry" John Barrowman The Offcial Website You probably already know of him and may not necessarily...
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Les difficiles élections sénégalaises
Présidentielle 2012 : Des moments sombres dans l’histoire politique sénégalaise Drapeau du Sénégal Le paysage politique sénégalais Le Sénégal est l’un des pays les plus stables en Afrique car il n’y a jamais eu de coup d’état. Le pays est une république...
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The commando ticklers !
Mayotte is a volcanic island located in the south west of the Indian Ocean between the Mozambique Channel and Madagascar; it is nicknamed the "island in the lagoon", the "Sea Horse Isle" or the "perfumed isle". The climate is tropical and there are too...
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Romy Schneider
«Elle ne supporte ni la médiocrité ni la décrépitude des sentiments. Elle peut en donner beaucoup. Elle jouera toujours… car Romy possède un visage que le temps ne peut détruire. Il ne peut que l’épanouir. » Claude Sautet Depending on what Romy Schneider...
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Anton Corbijn's Control
Tom Waits photographed by A. Corbijn You may not know Anton Corbijn's name, but you have probably seen some of his work, either photos or music videos. This 56 year old Dutch man became widely recognized for his mostly monochromatic, high contrasted pictures,...
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To see and to be seen
Two weeks ago, an artistic event took place in the midst of Tours' town centre. With the idea of both attracting attention to and taking advantage of the video surveillance in the streets of Tours, a group of artists realised a public event on various...