Well Hugo Pratt and Enki Bilal are pretty much European
Some great comics:
Hugo Pratt - Corto Maltese (and other stuff of him)
Daniel Clowes - Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
Moebius - Le garage hermetique
Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez - Love and Rockets
Dave Sim - Cerebus
Alan Moore - (nearly everything he ever did)
Frank Miller - Elektra Assassin
Ronin
Vittorio Giardino - Max Friedmann
Jacques Loustal
Charles Burns - Black Hole
David Lapham - Stray Bullets
Mathias Schultheis - Die Wahrheit Ăźber Shelby
Guido Crepax
Neil Gaiman - Sandman
and there will be more if I think about it a few min longer âŚ
And Comanche by Hermann and Greg is an excellent Western which probably tops every US Western comic.
Manara
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Writing about Jean-Louis Trintignant, I realized I had never seen this movie, so I filled this cultural gap last night. It turned out that even if you havenât seen the movie, youâre familiar with its imagery.
The film provoked a scandal when first released and therefore was a smash hit. It also established Brigitte Bardot as a sex symbol, Trintignant as a promising young actor, and St. Tropez as a fashionable seaside resort, the place to be at the French Rivièra.
The film canât fulfill any of these expectations: Bardot sure was a beauty and a cuty at the age of 21, but the moviesâ infamous press photos are far more revealing than any of the scenes in the movie, St. Tropez is no more than a village (it doesnât even have a decent beach), and the movie is a tedious melodrama, which gives Trintignant no chance to show what heâs capable of.
My advice: Watch a few highlights on You Tube and donât waste your time with the entire movie.
[quote=âEl Topo, post:3543, topic:1923â]Manara[/quote]whatâs that?
âBackwoodsâ with Gary Oldman. very, very poor supposedly Spanish âhorrorâ film. 3/10
Milo Manara
[quote=âEl Topo, post:3548, topic:1923â]Milo Manara[/quote]argh, I thought that was the title of the movie.
Of course I know Manaraâs stuff. I own a dozen of his comic books.
Watched Red Queen Kills 7 Times last night. Very entertaining giallo 
Was awake at stupid oâclock this morning and had time for a double bill before breakfast.
Started off with Peeping Tom (Powell/1960). What a magnificently crafted piece of cinema. To think that this film destroyed Powellâs career is an enormous tragedy I believe. It is so well written and constructed and leaves you with a lastinng sense of eeriness while also raising all sorts of interesting questions. More a psycho thriller than a horror but, as in many great horror stories, you find yourself feeling sorry for the âmonsterâ. I donât bandy the word masterpiece about lightly but I genuinely believe this film is one. Terrific stuff. If you havenât already seen this film rectify the situation immediately.
By the second feature my 15 year old had got up so chose something a bit more light weight while hanging on to the macabre theme. We plumped for The Uncanny (Heroux/1977), mainly because my daughter is fond of Peter Cushing (as am I) but also because we thought an anthology film would make a nice change. This is not the best of this type but fitted the bill none the less. Cushing isnât on screen so much but I got Susan Penhaligon thrown in as a bonus and Donald Pleasance is always good value so there was plenty to keep us happy without it ever threatening to genuinely impress. Especially after the power house of Peeping Tom. This one is also unusual as British / French Canadian co production and was shot in both the UK and Montreal. Anyhow, an OK time filler but if you had to see only one of these two there would be only one choice really.
moment to kill from wild east very horible transfer!!! masterpiece movie but crap picture
I still havenât seen Peeping Tom (itâs on my Christmas list)
For me Peeping Tom stll is this great, post-Radiohead, near-classic by Placebo:
I am very, very ill at the moment with some kind of horrible flu. However, I managed to recently watch the classic Point Blank and also Death Walks on High Heels.
Death Walks⌠was good, but I was a bit disappointed, as I was hoping Nieves Navarro would act as protagonist. She seemed so sexy, smart and confident. I loved the role reversal in her earning money easily and taking care of boyfriend while he was looking for a job.
Iâm up to the middle of the 2nd series of Twin Peaks, and I finally watched Eraserhead.
Commando Leopard (Dir: Antonio Margheriti/1984)
Itâs one of several Action Movies Lewis Collins did with Antonio Margheriti in the 1980âs. Lewis Collins had some fame cause of the British Action Crime TV Show The Professionals. This time he is El Leopardo the Leader of Guerilleros in a fictional Latin American State. His opponent is the bad mad chief (Klaus Kinski) of the militia. The plot seems to be an excuse for decent action scenes. Of course there are a lot of explosions and shoot outs. Interestingly Ennio Morricone contributes the score with synthesizer music. In the final credits a terrible song In the War can be heard.
Overall Commando Leopard is an OK Action Flick with some nice detailed special effects.
Just been reading Collins tried to join the SAS for real in the early 80âs, but was turned down due to his fame 
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Van Helsing (Sommers / 2004)
Picked this up very cheap recently and thought it would be a good one for my daughter and me to share which it proved to be. More an action flick with horror themes but also clearly influenced by Bond and Spaghetti westerns, right down to appropriating Tucoâs âWhen you are going to shoot, shootâ line from GBU. Good fun for the most part although I did get a little fed up with the CGI.
Oh no, it gets pretty bad from then on out. I took that as a personal challenge and a test of my love for the earlier episodes, which got me through. 8)
Last night I watched Mr. Majestyk and loved everything about it, from beginning to end. Who knew that melon farming was such an exciting and dangerous profession?
Sadly, all the double entendres were too much for my immature mind, and flipped into manic Kenneth Williams mode on more than one occassion. âDoes she know melons?â Oo-er! Of course she knows melons! Look at what the girl has strapped to her chestâŚ
âAll The Pretty Horsesâ The film was drastically cut down from a 4 hr running time and it shows the film is all over the place, Cormac Mccarthyâs book is one where nothing much happens for most of the time but it is still compelling and very well written and the characters are the thing you care about them in the book. not so in the film. 5/10.