Carmen Gray
Carmen Gray
Critic; programmer
New Zealand/UK
Voted in the critics poll
New Zealand/UK
Voted in the critics poll
Voted for:
| Empire | 1964 | Andy Warhol |
| Exterminating Angel, The | 1962 | Luis Buñuel |
| Godfather: Part I, The | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Mirror | 1974 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Paris is Burning | Jennie Livingston | |
| Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman |
| Shoah | 1985 | Claude Lanzmann |
| Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Turin Horse, The | Béla Tarr | |
| Woman Under the Influence, A | 1974 | John Cassavetes |

Comments
For the purest execution of truth, Mirror. For documenting life’s core problem, Shoah. The other films – where to start? Social verity, wit, artistic integrity, glamour… I’ve ignored films I think are dated.