Carmen Gray

Carmen Gray

Critic; programmer
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.