Monday, February 27, 2012

Top 100 Comics




1. Superman
2. Batman
3. Spider-Man
4. X-Men
5. Asterix
6. Tintin
7. Fantastic Four
8. Captain America
9. The Hulk
10. Lucky Luke
11. The Punisher
12. Daredevil
13. Iron Man
14. Thor
15. The Avengers
16. Green Lantern
17. Ghost Rider
18. Blade
19. Sin City
20. Corto Maltese
21. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
22. Justice League of America
23. Silver Surfer
24. Aquaman
25. Judge Dredd
26. The Flash
27. Wonder Woman
28. Peanuts
29. Calvin and Hobbes
30. Walt Disney's Comics and Stories
31. The Walking Dead
32. Kick-Ass
33. Watchmen
34. V for Vendetta
35. 300
36. From Hell
37. Wanted
38. Rurouni Kenshin
39. Dragon Ball
40. Bleach
41. Death Note (Desu Noto)
42. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
43. Hellboy
44. The Phantom
45. The Spirit
46. Hellblazer
47. Akira
48. Largo Winch
49. Adele Blanc-Sec
50. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Kaze no Tani no Naushika)
51. Full Metal Alchemist (Hagaren no Renkinjutsushi)
52. Preacher
53. Lone Wolf and Cub (Kozure Okami)
54. Maus
55. Hard Boiled
56. Prince Valiant
57. Fables
58. 100 Bullets
59. Y: The Last Man
60. American Vampire
61. Scalped
62. Swamp Thing
63. Dylan Dog
64. Tex Willer
65. Blake and Mortimer (Blake et Mortimer)
66. The Saga of the Meta-Barons (La Caste des Meta-Barons)
67. The Bluecoats (Les Tuniques Bleues)
68. Michel Vaillant
69. Bernard Prince
70. Bruno Brazil
71. Soda
72. XIII
73. Monster (Monsuta)
74. Berserk (Beruseruku)
75. Vinland Saga (Vinrando Saga)
76. Northlanders
77. Vagabond (Bagabondo)
78. Mushishi
79. Shunan Junai Gumi
80. Sakamekikoto
81. Diabolik
82. Persepolis
83. Promethea
84. Invincible
85. Locke and Key
86. Road to Perdition
87. A History of Violence
88. The Sandman
89. Ex Machina
90. Unknown Soldier
91. Rocketeer
92. The Inhumans
93. Spirou and Fantasio (Spirou et Fantasio)
94. Blueberry
95. Mandrake the Magician
96. The Incal (L'Incal)
97. Black Panther
98. Captain Britain
99. Lester Cockney
100. Cities of the Fantastic (Les Cites Obscures)

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Top 10 70's Movies

1. Apocalypse Now (1979) (USA)
2. The Godfather (1972) (USA)
3. Star Wars - Episode IV: The New Hope (1977) (USA)
4. The Godfather II (1974) (USA)
5. The Deer Hunter (1978) (USA)
6. American Graffiti (1973) (USA)
7. Rocky (1976) (USA)
8. Rocky II (1979) (USA)
9. Alien (1979) (USA)
10. Taxi Driver (1976) (USA)

Top 10 80's Movies

1. Star Wars - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
2. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
3. Star Wars - Episode VI: The Return of the Jedi (1983)
4. Excalibur (1981)
5. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
6. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
7. Back to the Future (1985)
8. Blade Runner (1982)
9. Dune (1984)
10. The Dead Poets Society (1989)

Top 10 90's Movies

1. Fight Club (1999)
2. The Matrix (1999)
3. The Boondock Saints (1999)
4. Seven (1995)
5. American History X (1998)
6. Scent of a Woman (1992)
7. Leon (1994)
8. The Devil's Advocate (1997)
9. True Romance (1993)
10. Good Will Hunting (1997)

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Top 25 French Language Films

1. Mesrine (2008, 2008)
2. La Haine (1995)
3. Asterix (1999, 2002, 2008)
4. Largo Winch (2008, 2011)
5. Delicatessen (1991)
6. Les Choristes (2004)
7. Le Diner de Cons (1998)
8. Nikita (1990)
9. Les Visiteurs (1993, 1998)
10. L'auberge espagnole (2002, 2005)
11. Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
12. Banlieu 13 (2004, 2009)
13. Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (2008)
14. Jules et Jim (1961)
15. Un Prophète (2009)
16. Les Rivières Pourpres (2000, 2004)
17. Taxi (1998, 2000, 2003, 2007)
18. Doberman (1997)
19. Swimming Pool (2003)
20. Les aventures extraordinaires de Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)
21. Irreversible (2002)
22. Cache (2005)
23. Forces Spéciales (2011)
24. Lucky Luke (2009)
25. Trois Coleurs (1993, 1994, 1994)

Thursday, February 2, 2012

My 25 Favorite Books (So Far)



1. Musashi (Eiji Yoshikawa: 1935) (Japan)
2. Siddhartha (Herman Hesse: 1922) (Germany)
3. The Alchemist (O Alquimista) (Paulo Coelho: 1988) (Brazil)
4. On the Road (Jack Kerouac: 1957) (USA)
5. The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger: 1951) (USA)
6. The Beach (Alex Garland: 1996) (UK)
7. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (Douglas Coupland: 1991) (Canada)
8. Lord of the Flies (William Golding: 1954) (UK)
9. Harry Potter (J. K. Rowling: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007) (UK)
10. No Beast So Fierce (Edward Bunker: 1973) (USA)
11. The Lord of the Rings Series (J.R.R. Tolkien: 1937, 1954, 1954, 1955, 1977) (UK)
12. Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein: 1961) (USA)
13. The Vampire Chronicles (Anne Rice: 1976 - 2003) (USA)
14. In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire (Adrian Goldsworthy: 2004) (UK)
15. Tides of War (Steven Pressfield: 2001) (USA)
16. Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell: 1949) (UK)
17. Elite da Tropa (Batista, Pimentel and Soares: 2006) (Brazil)
18. Gomorra (Roberto Saviano: 2006) (Italy)
19. Captains of the Sands (Capitães da Areia) (Jorge Amado: 1937) (Brazil)
20. The Spartans: An Epic History (Paul Cartledge: 2003) (UK)
21. Heavier Than Heaven (Charles R. Cross: 2001) (USA)
22. The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway: 1952) (USA)
23. The Giver (Lois Lowry: 1993, 2000, 2004, 2012) (USA)
24. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Ishmael Beah: 2007) (USA)
25. O Ultimo Ano em Luanda (Tiago Rebelo: 2008) (Portugal)


Honorable Mentions
1. The Dharma Bums (Jack Kerouac: 1958) (USA)
2. Diary (Chuck Palahniuk: 2003) (USA)
3. La Saga dell'Alligatore (Massimo Carlotto: 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2009) (Italy)
4. Robert Langdon Series (Dan Brown: 2000, 2003, 2009) (USA)
5. The Tesseract (Alex Garland: 1998) (UK)
6. Holes (Louis Sachar: 1998) (USA)
7. The Pilgrimage (O Diário de um Mago) (Paulo Coelho: 1987) (Brazil)
8. Solaris (Stanislaw Lem: 1961) (Russia)
9. We (Yevgeny Zamyatin: 1924) (Russia)
10. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad: 1903) (UK)
11. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley: 1818) (UK)
12. Dracula (Bram Stoker: 1897) (Ireland)
13. Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk: 1996) (USA)
14. Mar Sem Fim (Amyr Klink: 2004) (Brazil)
15. Orphans of the Sky (Robert A. Heinlein: 1941) (USA)