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2006 Movies, books & more...

MOVIES:

Good Night, and Good Luck, George Clooney, 2005 - 4.5/5
La tigre e la Neve, Roberto Benigni, 2005 - 3.0/5
Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee, 2005 - 4.0/5
Hoodwinked, Cory & Todd Edwards, 2005 - 3.5/5
Munich, Steven Spielberg, 2005 - 4.0/5
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Blake Edwards, 1961 - 4.0/5
De battre, mon coeur s'est arrêté, Jacques Audiard, 2005 - 4.0/5
Capote, Bennett Miller, 2005 - 3.5/5
Star Wars: Clone wars, Genndy Tartakovsky, 2003 - 5.0/5
The pink panther, Shawn Levy, 2006 - 3.0/5
Memoirs of a Geisha, Rob Marshall, 2005 - 4.0/5
Syriana, Stephen Gaghan, 2005 - 4.0/5
Renaissance, Christian Volckman, 2006 - 4.5/5
Ice Age: The meltdown, Carlos Saldanha, 2006 - 3.5/5
Inside Man, Spike Lee, 2006 - 4.5/5
V for Vendetta, James McTeigue, 2005 - 5.0/5
Mission: Impossible III, J.J.Abrams, 2006 - 3.0/5
C.R.A.Z.Y., Jean-Marc Vallée, 2005 - 4.5/5
Volver, Pedro Almodovar, 2006 - 4.5/5
X-Men: The last stand, Brett Ratner, 2006 - 3.5/5
Marie-Antoinette, Sofia Coppola, 2006 - 4.5/5
The Da Vinci Code, Ron Howard, 2006 - 4.0/5
Conversations with other women, Hans Canosa, 2005 - 4.0/5
American Dreamz, Paul Weitz, 2006 - 3.5/5
Cars, John Lasseter, 2006 - 5.0/5
Paris, Je t'aime, Various, 2005 - 4.5/5
Superman Returns, Bryan Singer, 2006 - 4.0/5
Stay, Marc Forster, 2005 - 4.0/5
Lord of war, Andrew Niccol, 2005 - 4.0/5
United 93, Paul Greengrass, 2006 - 4.0/5
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Gore Verbinski, 2006 - 4.0/5
Lucky number Slevin, Paul McGuigan, 2006 - 4.0/5
The Lost City, Andy Garcia, 2005 - 3.5/5
La Science des reves, Michael Gondry, 2006 - 4.0/5
Nausicaa, Hayao Miyazaki, 1984 - 5.0/5
The wind that shakes the Barley, Ken Loach, 2006 - 4.0/5
Rosario Tijeras, Emilio Maille, 2005 - 4.5/5
The Sentinel, Clark Johnson, 2006 - 4.0/5
Little Miss Sunshine, J.Dayton, V.Faris, 2006 - 5.0/5
Les Particules elementaires, Oskar Roehler, 2006 - 4.0/5
A love song for Bobby Long, Shainee Gabel, 2004 - 4.0/5
The Devil wears Prada, David Frankel, 2006 -4.0/5
Thank you for Smoking, Jason Reitman, 2005 - 5.0/5
Perfume: The story of a Murderer, Tom Tykwer, 2006 - 4.5/5
The Queen, Stephen Frears, 2006 - 4.5/5
Flags of our fathers, Clint Eastwood, 2006 - 4.5/5
Scoop, Woody Allen, 2006 - 4.0/5
Prete-moi ta main, Eric Lartigau, 2006 - 4.0/5
The black Dahlia, Brian De Palma, 2006 - 3.5/5
Babel, Alejandro Gonzalez, 2006 - 4.5/5
The Prestige, Christopher Nolan, 2006 - 5.0/5
Casino Royale, Martin Campbell, 2006 - 5.0/5
Flushed Away, D.Bowers, S.Fell, 2006 - 4.0/5

BOOKS:

Evolution Man: Or, how I ate my father, Roy Lewis, 1960 - 4.0/5
Der Prozess, Franz Kafka, 1914 - 4.5/5
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden, 1997 - 5.0/5
Atlantis, David Gibbins, 2005 - 3.5/5
Todos os nomes, Jose Saramago, 1997 - 4.5/5
Dracula, Bram Stoker, 1897 - 4.5/5
A year in the Merde, Stephen Clarke, 2004 - 5.0/5

CULTURAL EVENTS:

L'âge d'or des sciences arabes, Institut du Monde Arabe - 4.5/5
La Collection Philipps à Paris, Musée du Luxembourg - 4.0/5
Ingres, 1780-1867, Musée du Louvre - 4.0/5
Star Wars l'Expo, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie - 4.5/5
Picasso-Dora Maar, Musée Picasso - 5.0/5
The Rolling Stones, A Bigger Bang Tour, Stade de France - 5.5/5
Mondial de l'automobile, Paris Expo - 4.5/5
Titien, Le pouvoir en face, Musée du Luxembourg - 4.5/5
Rembrandt-Hogarth, Musee du Louvre, 4.0/5
Yves Klein, Centre Pompidou - 4.5/5
Venise et l'Orient, Institut du Monde Arabe - 4.0/5

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"A goal without a plan is just a wish". ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY.

Paris je t'aime

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/travel/01parisnite.html

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"Ne pouvoir se passer de Paris, marque de betise; ne plus l'aimer, signe de decadence". GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Just Amazing

A Bigger Bang Tour, The Rolling Stones - Stade de France, 2006

After

"L'Eglise d'Auvers-sur-Oise", Van Gogh, 1890 - Musée d'Orsay

Before

Eglise Notre-Dame d'Auvers, 2006 - Auvers-sur-Oise

Memoirs

"... This humble person has been alive long enough to see two generations of children grow up, and knows how rare it is for ordinary birds to give birth to a swan. The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world." - Tanaka Ichiro

Extract from "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden.