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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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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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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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* 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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My Chemical Romance
My Chemical Romance (abbreviated as MCR) is an American rock band from New Jersey, formed in 2001. The band consists of lead vocalist Gerard Way, bassist Mikey Way, and guitarists Frank Iero and Ray Toro. The band was formed by frontman Gerard Way and...
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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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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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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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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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"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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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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The new face of the Christ
I was just daydreaming the other day, wondering what I could write about on the blog and then I remembered this story of that woman who failed trying to renovate a painting of the Christ that caused a scandal last summer. The story took place in Spain,...
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"Oh, Hippie Days !" by Alain Dister
You have probably all wished to be a hippie at some point of your life, to go 'On the Road' just like Jack Kerouac, to live in the Haight Ashbury, to go on Tour with Jimi Hendrix, to take pictures of The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane...
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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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You are on cloud nine at Bristol International Kite Festival
Created in 1986 by Martin Lester, John Peyton, and Avril Baker, the Bristol International Kite Festival takes place every year on the Plateau of Ashton Court Estate at Bristol (map). The festival started from almost nothing but a little money and the...
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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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Photography at work or Photographie à l’œuvre : French Reconstruction Seen through the Eyes of Photographers
From the 26th November 2011 to the 20th May 2012, the castle of Tours hosts an exhibition of pictures bearing witness to French reconstruction in the years 1945-58. Last weekend, I went there to see traces of history and was stunned by the pictures' esthetic...
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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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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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Shock Corridor by Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller : Shock Corridor. Shock Corridor is a black and white film released in 1963 and directed by the American director Samuel Fuller known for his low budget films mixing strong political views and recognizable filming techniques. This film is...
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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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I'm sorry about being disrupting but I wanted to post something
Hello everyone and welcome to the beautiful and yet not so big land of amateur geeky humor. Yes, today’s post will deal with that art that only manga fans and old school geeks know about: Abridged Series. But you must be wondering “what is an abridged...
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When iron became gold!
You've probably seen the film or maybe even just the trailer of the very recent biopic directed by Phillida Lloyd that tells the story of the first female Prime Minister in Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher. Of course, this prime Prime Minister is also...
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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...