Someone started that thread on a french forum where Chant, Dndy, Mail-Moth and I sometime post. It's a stupid exercise but really makes you think about what it means about you if you're being academic and going for the Canon or rejecting the diktats of bourgeois good taste by listing dark horse comics.
My top 10 films went something like this (not very good, too consensual):
Le Samouraï (Melville)
Un condamné à mort s'est échappé (A man escaped) (Bresson)
Vertigo (Hitchcock)
À bout de souffle (Breathless) (Godard)
Sans soleil (Marker)
Les amants réguliers (Regular lovers) (Garrel)
The mission (To)
The battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
La maman et la putain (the mother and the whore) (Eustache)
Rashomon (Kurosawa)
Top 10 books was more interesting as I discarded a lot and went for photography books, hard boiled lit and even mangas.
Nana (Yazawa, teenage girls manga)
Exhibit A (Bourdin)
People of the 20th century (Sander)
120, rue de la Gare (Malet)
Fatale (Manchette)
Éloges (Saint-John Perse)
Vol de nuit (Saint-Exupéry)
King-rat (Clavell)
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (Lovecraft)
Mythologies (Barthes)
Of course I'm sorta sad I didn't include Proust, Derrida or Bataille but it's much more revealing that way.
My top 10 films went something like this (not very good, too consensual):
Le Samouraï (Melville)
Un condamné à mort s'est échappé (A man escaped) (Bresson)
Vertigo (Hitchcock)
À bout de souffle (Breathless) (Godard)
Sans soleil (Marker)
Les amants réguliers (Regular lovers) (Garrel)
The mission (To)
The battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
La maman et la putain (the mother and the whore) (Eustache)
Rashomon (Kurosawa)
Top 10 books was more interesting as I discarded a lot and went for photography books, hard boiled lit and even mangas.
Nana (Yazawa, teenage girls manga)
Exhibit A (Bourdin)
People of the 20th century (Sander)
120, rue de la Gare (Malet)
Fatale (Manchette)
Éloges (Saint-John Perse)
Vol de nuit (Saint-Exupéry)
King-rat (Clavell)
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (Lovecraft)
Mythologies (Barthes)
Of course I'm sorta sad I didn't include Proust, Derrida or Bataille but it's much more revealing that way.
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